On Friday three pilot whales, including a calf, beached on the shore of the loch.

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The roadside attractions died like beached whales, and McDonald's popped up at almost every exit ramp.

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Above ground, wooden houses and beached boats make Xcalak an idyllic escape.

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Many of them refuse to dip a toe into the stock market, choosing instead to remain beached in money market funds.

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About 35 beached as the water in the sea loch receded.

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The route is still strewn with wrecks in one spot a Tata lorry lies on its side, like a beached whale but it used to be much worse.

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Lady Thatcher was in this part of the country, where the Liberal Democrats now hold sway, in an attempt to bolster William Hague's apparently beached election campaign.

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Three days later the Kon-Tiki struck a reef and the crew was beached on an uninhabited islet of Raroia Island -- 101 days and 4, 338 miles from Peru.

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The peninsula is a haven for wildlife: humpback whales in the crystal blue water, elephant seals beached on Pleneau Island, squawking adelie, chinstrap and gentoo penguins, and wheeling cormorants, petrels and terns.

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His tongue flaps around like a beached fish.

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They end up looking like beached whales.

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The other half is still beached.

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