As a result, planes were kept in a holding pattern, sometimes three or four miles apart, until they were cleared to land.

结果，飞机均被保持在等待航线状态，有时相隔三四英里，直至它们得到降落指示。

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Space Shuttle Atlantis has been cleared to land next week.

亚斯兰蒂号航天飞机已确定于下周着陆。

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Cleared to land cross wind from your left20knots land with caution.

可以降落，左侧风20哩，降落注意。

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Roots of Peace supports the planting of native crops and the employment of landmine victims to farm the cleared land.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

The Highland Clearances of the 18th and 19th centuries saw families cleared from land to make way for large scale farming and sporting estates.

BBC: A family

Kaye said the government had cleared two more WFP flights to land -- one stocked with temporary warehousing and medical kits from the World Health Organization, and the other carrying 18 tons of high-energy biscuits donated by the Italian government.

CNN: Limited cyclone aid begins moving

Most explicit are those who have called him God's punishment of European Jews for their secularization, then gone on to argue that it was mainly because of Hitler and the Holocaust that the biblical prophecy was fulfilled and the state of Israel born--only Western guilt on so massive a scale could have cleared the way to the Promised Land.

CNN: The necessary evil?