The Independent's Boyd Tonkin also noted "a plot rammed to bursting point with guide-book factoids".

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Behind the doors, the tiny rooms are cluttered to bursting point, often occupied by whole families.

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As a result of the sharply rising numbers, Brazil's entire detention system is at bursting point, with almost daily riots, killings or breakouts.

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Boston resident Rachel Bull, who is half Polish, raised the issues on Question Time last week and said services in the area were at bursting point.

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And ask them if the mercury is at bursting point at the top or if they're halfway up and things are starting to get too much.

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Of course, we all have our own bursting point, when under emotional stress we can no longer contain ourselves, says Sharon Gilchrest O'Neill, a Mount Kisco, N.

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Why on earth are people who champion a small state supporting an expensive war on drugs that has filled the prisons to bursting point without reducing the supply of narcotics?

ECONOMIST: The presidential campaign

The bursting of the tech bubble and the minor recession of 2001 knocked about a point off the peak rate of 67.3% in April 2000, but even after the Great Recession ended in June 2009 the rate was 65.7%.

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