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Examples
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Within 500 ft. of any stream-bed there can be absolutely NO CONSTRUCTION.
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Ms. Erman studied caddis flies, whose larvae live in cocoons of stream-bed debris.
Flies, and Their Lawyers, Keep Rare Trout From Going Home Justin Scheck 2011
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Within 500 ft. of any stream-bed there can be absolutely NO CONSTRUCTION.
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Beyond the fort lay an ancient, dried stream-bed that separated it from the forest and hilly mounds.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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This close, she could see the slopes had trees and scrub poking out of them, and the trees continued right down to the flat ground where they became the forest and met a dry stream-bed.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Nor did he give over diving and searching the stream-bed, till the day was half spent, but found not the purse.
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Beyond the fort lay an ancient, dried stream-bed that separated it from the forest and hilly mounds.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Thinking she had gone further afield he wandered towards the dry stream-bed, but he did not find her there either.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Thinking she had gone further afield he wandered towards the dry stream-bed, but he did not find her there either.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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For years in his youth he had dreamed of this; now he would find out if the hillocks hid cities and cultures, if the dry stream-bed was the leftover of some ancient river that had changed course, forcing the people on its banks to abandon their settlement.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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