Harsh Quebec winters usually have an impact on construction but with a fairly tame winter, plans have gone off without issue.

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The winter Olympics will be gone almost as soon as they arrive.

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Come the winter, she has gone.

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When Jarvis had come back from Alaska, he had gone straight to Winter Hill.

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Levels of the winter vomiting bug norovirus have gone down for a second week, latest figures show.

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Although he was only six years old, he had gone to Birmingham last winter and there he had seen snow.

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It has not gone unnoticed that as winter draws near, the colder states which rely on cheap heating oil, like Michigan and Ohio, are either battleground states or Democratic states in the north-east which Mr Gore needs to win in the election.

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Wolves manager Mick McCarthy has gone on record as saying he has never wanted a winter break.

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As has happened in each of the last three winters, while the significant problems facing the economy are being ignored in the euphoria over the winter rally and the continuing positive economic reports, the problems have not gone away.

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