On the other hand, there is evidence that the object which burst forth so spectacularly is actually quite close.

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With summer in full swing, this week Inhabitat watched the mercury rise as the world's largest thermostat burst forth with an array of 72, 000 building-mounted LEDs.

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Then, sometime between 12 and 50 years after the two of you left your grandmother, you burst forth and were sucked by her fimbriae into the fallopian tube.

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Corrupt, incompetent and brutal as many of Europe's post-communist governments have been, political and economic freedoms, albeit often of the roughest kind, have burst forth in many places that had seen none before.

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The day before Breen left its chief operating officer's post, after only six months there, Motorola Chief Executive Christopher Galvin says Breen had assured him that there were no hidden problems about to burst forth.

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Like many Latin American countries, they decided the best way to get ahead was to close the economy to foreign competition in the hope that domestic industries would then burst forth on to the scene.

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It's a business waiting to burst forth.

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The Chinese believed that the rising of Arcturus, the fourth-brightest star in the sky, caused spring to burst forth, while the Egyptians thought that the appearance of Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, brought about the annual flooding of the Nile.

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Environments are destructible: you can break furniture and use it on enemies, burst through walls to open up new areas, and so forth.

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