Legislation cannot be carried forward between Parliaments and peers fear that the bill will enter the "wash-up" period, where party leaders and whips meet to decide which clauses will stay and which will disappear.

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She might have been willing to pursue it, but the inspector told her that to make coffee, she would need to install a three-basin stainless steel wash-up sink plus a separate mop sink in her store, and she decided that coffee would have to wait.

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After a quick wash and brush-up at the hotel, I headed to the nearest bus stop.

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Needing a break from the keyboard, I grabbed a bucket and some sponges and went outside to wash my dinged-up Volkswagen Rabbit.

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Gerberding credited some shelters for taking steps to minimize those risks, citing one that had set up a long line of portable sinks for evacuees to wash in and others that gave evacuees alcohol-soaked hand wipes.

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