The stories have no one location but occupy a virtual space of a kind writers were using long before anyone had heard of the Web.
The inquest into the death of Mr Thompson, of Gorton, heard he had a long history of drink and drug abuse and had been addicted to crack cocaine and heroin.
If you haven't heard of the Long Island town of Brentwood, take a moment to pity the place.
Voices are muffled and during our hour-long tour we heard only a handful of phones ringing.
This company that you may have never heard of has a long history behind it.
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They moved at astonishing speeds for people of that size, and, long before you saw them, you heard them: the sound of one two-hundred-and-fifty-pound man colliding with another echoed around the practice facility.
During the week-long trial the court heard Ms Young, of Pennine View, Linthwaite, Huddersfield, was alleged to have spat at Margaret Castleton, who was in her 80s, at the care home for elderly men and women.
Before long, a lot of music critics had heard it, and as music critics will, they started writing about it on their blogs and in print.
Mud and vegetation was trapped in the top of her long boots, the court heard.
He had become a "broken" man, unable to cope with the end of a long relationship, the court heard.
The jury has heard the pensioner had a long-held mistrust of the medical profession and did not want any outside help.
An ambulance took the woman to a hospital, and that was the last I heard of the situation for a very long time.
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No one at Karakol was sure when the next Pakistan-bound bus was due, but in the stillness of this place I heard it long before it appeared: a distant whine among silent mountains.
We heard it not that long ago in the big cities of this country.
Ms Brennan had a long history of mental health problems, the inquest in Leicester heard.
Not long ago I heard a shocking radio advertisement from the US Department of Energy and the Ad Council.
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He is heartened, I should mention, by what we have all heard from some members of Congress who have been long-time opponents of gun control measures, common-sense gun control measures like the assault weapons ban and the like.
Moreover, investment in these systems is hard to come by, because the business case of long-term savings through IT has not been heard.
One of the biggest surprises, however, was the speaker phone, which was loud, clear and one of the best we've heard in a long time.
His son, Mark, was shot at the Cotton Tree pub in Droylsden, Greater Manchester, in May as part of a long-running family feud, the court heard.
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The last time we heard from Steorn, the company had just joined a long line of optimistic but doomed people and companies unable to actually demo free-energy tech when put the test -- and although the Orbo didn't actually do anything, CEO Sean McCarthy promised us that we'd eventually get a working demo with physical access to the device.
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On Monday we heard that deputy Chris Long, who was blamed for the shooting death of Peyton Strickland while serving a search warrant over a suspected PS3 theft, had been dismissed from the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office, and that he was to go on trial for second degree murder.
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This is one of the greatest songs that I have heard in a very long time.
He said he hadn't heard the question because of translation problems that made the news conference long and at times confusing.
By voting day, the Grenell story will have been long forgotten -- even by the comparatively small number of people who ever heard of it in the first place.
You may never have heard of the lancetfish, a sometimes 4- to 6-foot long fish with enormous teeth.
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The MPs heard from the Met Office that the decline in sea ice is part of a long-term trend, although this year's very severe melt was likely to have been accelerated by local weather conditions.
We'd both heard about the brutally long working hours, but what surprised us was how people prized the number of hours they clocked, even when this went up to a ridiculous 16 hours a day.
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This was -- this is about rules of the road for banks that engage, as you heard Austan describe, in activities that, before so long ago, weren't traditionally the purview of banks.
This week at Inhabitat, we were thankful to be able to witness the long-awaited unveiling of the futuristic solar-powered Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi, and we also heard the exciting news that scientists are developing a project that could have us using the Sahara desert to supply 50% of the world's energy by 2050.
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