At nightfall, the helicopters, bearing teams of operators, lifted off from bases around Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Botanists and gardeners run guided tours, and at nightfall visitors can watch an elaborate firework display over the Italian garden.

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The bridge -- made up of segments linked together -- is partially disassembled at nightfall and put together in the morning.

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The fighting, which eased at nightfall, was by far the most serious violation of a cease-fire brokered by NATO and the European Union that took effect July 5.

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The scene comes into its own, however, at nightfall.

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And as I go out to them, my aunts, silhouetted where they sit in the silver light of early dusk, I remember the women returning home at nightfall from the plots among the trees.

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When at last, long after nightfall, the glittering bright lights went up on the stage, the presentation commenced, and a parade of high-ranking Fleet Marine Force officers big shots from Hawaii embarked on their speeches, we began to realize a cold fact: they had nothing new to tell us.

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The sun set at 4:18pm, the earliest nightfall of the year for Washington.

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And the onset of standard time's early nightfall seemed inconsequential as voters arrived at polling stations until closing time.

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