The workers had to lie off for a few days as the snow made building impossible.

大雪使建筑工程不能进行，工人们只好暂时歇几天。

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Lord Berkeley tabled a question to government ministers on 25 June 2012, asking what action they were taking to create a passenger ferry link to the Isles of Scilly, which lie off the south-west tip of Cornwall, in line with the Scottish government's ferries policy.

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But with the vast majority of married couples filing jointly, some spouses are bound to run off, lie about their off-the-books income, wind up in trouble, or otherwise leave their spouse holding the bag.

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More than 1, 500 ships lie wrecked off North Carolina's Outer Banks, but today these islands depend far more on tourism than on maritime trade.

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