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Example Sentences
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Huge tips in Wigan, Sheffield and Lancashire - together containing 48,000 tonnes of waste - have been earmarked for clearance by the Environment Agency.
From BBC
As the company’s liquidity ran dry, it resorted to “self help” to stay afloat, using revenue collections earmarked to repay lenders to cover operating costs instead, including its legal fees, court papers show.
About $17 billion is earmarked for building and upgrading transmission, said Aaron Abramovitz, the company’s treasurer and senior vice president of finance.
The 17 billion euros earmarked for the U.S. will be spent on wind and solar power plants, battery-storage facilities, and flexible generation assets.
The cow was always earmarked to be processed as beef, so Lee said the art collective was employing an extreme way to offer people a chance to change course ahead of time.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
