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"We're at the bottom of the slope so everything that's coming down is coming this way so it's perfectly obvious to us that the drains aren't coping with it at all," he said.

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It means athletes are catching a bus around an hour before they compete, with Olympic 800m champion Hodgkinson describing the situation as "draining".

From BBC

The more who leave, the better, because the brain drain is going to free up a lot of real estate and help solve the housing crisis.

Stephen was then extubated and woken up, and then he rested for an hour before his blood was drained and spun through a centrifuge for six hours to separate out the stem cells.

Entire cities have been lost, “the land beneath them compressed and lowered, so they did not drain, but persisted like glacial lakes.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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