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  • Remember walking on the beach near weston super mare our grand atlantic dreams sun setting over the sea the severn estuary wind in your hair, ruins in the dunes

    I was once a minor poet « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008

  • But realistically even severn billion trees won't make a huge difference given the scale of the problems they are trying to counter - deforestation, rising carbon dioxide levels etc; how about making it a round trillion...

    Towards a Trillion Trees glyn moody 2008

  • In my case the court said of the 500 or so songs that a music publisher stoles from my familily and claimed as their own, ruining us and our credibility along the way and destroying the market for our songs during over severn years.

    IP enforcement top US priority 2005

  • In my case the court said of the 500 or so songs that a music publisher stoles from my familily and claimed as their own, ruining us and our credibility along the way and destroying the market for our songs during over severn years.

    IP enforcement top US priority 2005

  • One thirty-severn She didn't want to have to come back tomorrow.

    Only You Leigh Sutherland & Peg Greenwood 1997

  • Felt Peter to bring his Harriet to see me as soon as they retumi from this mysterious honeymoon of theirs, and believe me, dear Honoria, always (in spite of my venomous old tongue); most affectionately yours, mirabelle severn AND thames.

    Busman's Honeymoon Sayers, Dorothy L. 1937

  • Ffrom Newhouse I Came over Maubern Hills which are Like the Alps and have had much wet, the roads deep and difficult, to upton in Worcester 10 mile, where I pass the severn on a stone bridge – here it is not broad.

    Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

  • This is such a load of crap,this is not a normal day at Heathrow with deferred flights and loads of stand ins just to make a point,at the end of the day workers have withdrawn their labour in response to a government who wants to change their pensions that they agreed to work for. "well just shows how much work they do there.- bob severn, granada spain"

    Evening Standard - Home Dick Murray 2011

  • About one year and a half after that time, my master purchased my wife and and her child, for severn hundred pounds old tenor.

    Life and Adventures of Venture Smith, Venture 1798

  • For example, it would be wonderful if the UK built a severn barrage providing something like 7GW of green electricity with no intermittancy problems.

    Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk George Monbiot 2010

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