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"This wet winter buys us some time, but it doesn't mean we're out of the woods," Bruce Moore, a division manager at the Southern Nevada Water Authority, said recently as he surveyed the lake, where two fishing piers extend over now-dry Boulder Harbor.
Wet Winter Can't Slake West's Thirst Jim Carlton 2011
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Here, a pier formerly used for fishing extends over now-dry Boulder Harbor.
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Adrian is interested in finding subtle hints that large bodies of water might once have flooded the northern regions of this now-dry world, hints that the Orbiter's infrared spectrometer could provide.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Adrian Brown -- The Time for Mars is Now SETI Institute 2010
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The monument at left commemorates the event in the bed of a now-dry petroleum lake where the gusher blew.
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Union Oil workers were toiling on the Lakeview One lease, named for its view of now-dry Buena Vista Lake.
In This Sleepy Town, It Isn't Crude to Celebrate a Giant Oil Spill 2010
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Another Border Patrol agent arrived on the concrete bank where the now-dry, 33-foot (10-meter) wide Rio Grande is, and detained a second person.
Border Patrol Shooting Video: Footage Emerges Of Moments Before Teenager Was Shot 2010
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I took the now-dry rug I washed a few days ago down and put it on the dining room floor; this was after I'd hoovered the floor and tidied the room.
Somebody should report me ailbhe 2008
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She then showed him how they should sleep with their heads toward the door and with their now-dry clothing bunched up as pillows.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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And remember, the ocean sort of brought in all these -- all these deep sea fish so that the sea bed, the now-dry sea bed, was covered with all these -- all these weird-looking fish that a lot of the fishermen had never seen.
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Finally he agreed, and shrugged back into his now-dry shirt and jeans.
Sugar Skull Denise Hamilton 2003
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