• Towards the back, an orchard: figs, peaches, plums and pears, pomegranates, apples, apricots and medlars.

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  • "Then after a while, the panic got towards the back because we all started looking around and saw roaches crawling everywhere, " she said.

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  • Forensic pathologist Nicholas Hunt told the inquest in Crook, County Durham, the gunshot passed from above the right temple, back through the brain and out of the left side towards the back of the head.

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  • As the polo shirts left the area three well-dressed 50-something men, who wouldn't look out of place at a book festival, stood up towards the back of the balcony and placed white sticky labels over their mouths.

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  • Some satellite developers are beginning to design spacecraft so that sensitive instruments are located towards the back of the satellite to minimise any risk of impact damage, and the side facing away from earth is shielded to protect it from meteoroids.

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  • The results suggest that these emotions are handled in the medial prefrontal cortex (the middle of the front of the frontal lobe), the left posterior superior temporal sulcus (one of the furrows towards the side of the brain) and the visual cortex (towards the back of the brain).

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  • Or to put it another way, the Department made unrealistic assumptions about the growth of passenger numbers and inflation towards the back end of the franchise period - which had the effect of making First Group's bid seem significantly more attractive, because First Group was massively more optimistic about how passengers and revenues could grow after 2021 than was Virgin.

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  • Once you carry the bunkers the ball will not hold on the green as it falls away from the front to the back towards the rough and the road.

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  • The J Butterfly stands out further by packing an infrared port next to the rear camera, as well as three metallic contact points for docking towards the bottom of the back side.

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  • Early indications are that he will focus on the economy and talk in particular about turning the nation back towards the middle class and middle-class values.

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  • Rams keeper Bywater made a hash of his clearance, punching the ball back towards the unmarked Best, who controlled it with his chest before slotting home on the half-volley.

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  • Forster was called into action to tip a Youssouf Hadji shot over and the same man was denied by the Celtic keeper again moments later after heading towards goal at the back post.

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  • Rooney outmuscled Ifil as the ball bounced back towards the Aberdeen goal but, with the goal at his mercy, the striker contrived to blast the ball wide of the near post when a shot across the bows of Howard seemed the better option.

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  • But ignoring the Quebec wing and slipping back towards the left is probably a formula for fading into political obscurity once again.

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  • North Wales Police say they have had one potential sighting of Ms Wright at around 15:20 BST on Easter Sunday, walking through Carmel in the direction of Groeslon or back towards the centre of the village.

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  • "The Rydberg electron resembles a sheepdog that keeps its flock together by roaming speedily to the outermost periphery of the flock, and nudging back towards the centre any member that might begin to drift away, " said Professor Greene.

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  • For those who know the Grangetown area well, it's the big junction going southbound between Clare Road, the left fork of Corporation Road towards the Bay and Penarth Road leading sharp left back into town towards the station and Brains' Brewery, or right towards Penarth.

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  • But, unless he is prepared to see the country go bust and slide back towards the dismal standards of the era of Enver Hoxha, his Stalinist predecessor, Mr Berisha has no choice.

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  • Since clinching the nomination, Mr Romney has moved back towards the centre in some respects.

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  • When they hit the electric field at the end of the cylinder, they bounce off it, spiral back towards the entrance, where they run into matter, and annihilate.

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  • In 2000, for instance, William Rehnquist agreed to uphold Miranda despite years of animosity towards the ruling dating back to his tenure at the Department of Justice in the late 1960s.

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  • The drift, as sceptics will have detected, is back towards the Enlightenment optimism derided earlier: that all problems are solvable.

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  • Both are following the usual French political rule: spend the first round securing your base, then tack frantically back towards the centre in the second.

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  • "We've kind of reversed it from the Six Nations where we struggled first half and fought back towards the end of the second half, " Roberts said.

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  • Getting a good bearing is important because unless the insect rolls a direct course, it risks turning back towards the dung pile where another beetle will almost certainly try to steal its prized ball.

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  • The first is that recent opinion polls show Conservative support falling back towards the level that prevailed before Mr Cameron took over.

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  • But in Dr Ghaffari's trap, the orbits of some of the positrons swelled in size, causing them to lose energy while looping back towards the entrance.

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  • The bodies were eventually washed back into towards the foot of the cliff and a team member was put down the cliff on lines in order to recover them.

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  • So the pendulum may swing back towards someone in the mould of Jacques Delors, the president from 1985 to 1994.

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  • Astrium's plan to tackle defunct satellites is to use an unmanned chase spacecraft to get in range, fire a barbed harpoon into the body of the rogue hardware and then use a smaller propulsion unit attached to a tether to tow it back towards the atmosphere where it will burn up safely on re-entry.

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