These are some of the nuggets of information discovered by information boffins trawling through vast oceans of data.

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The authors boast of watching the queen at work, interviewing officials from the royal household and of trawling through archives.

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Congressmen will have to contend for the first time with good-governance groups, and with their political enemies, trawling through their investments.

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Trawling through recent electoral history, they can find some crumbs of comfort.

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Then I began trawling through old contacts saved on my phone, even the ones that are only there because I never got around to deleting them.

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Police say they are trawling through hours of CCTV footage in an effort to identify those responsible for disruption during the August Bank Holiday demonstrations in Bradford.

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But rather than trawling blindly through local farming regions, five self-drive touring trails have been created to make it easier than scoffing a plateful of fresh-picked British Columbia blueberries.

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