To increase sensitivity, at least 12scrapingsfor each juvenile fox, and at least 21 for each adult fox were examined.
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These fish were used for infection experiments and skinscrapings.
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Genetic fingerprinting from blood samples or cheekscrapingswere used in cases where the questionnaire was inconclusive.
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Then he told the boy to bring inscrapingsof whalebone.
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Only deepscrapingswere retained.
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The contents of the small intestine and mucosalscrapingsof each section were washed with running water and the volume of each section made up to 2 litres with water.
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Yes; the virus of fowl pest has been recovered fromscrapingsof the skins of frozen eviscerated carcases of poultry brought from abroad.
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A part of thescrapingsis taken and tested for its purety and content.
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Thescrapingsof that report were mixed up and submitted to another place.
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But to the most law-abiding citizen, throwing a bone to the dog or thescrapingsfrom a bone to the cat may seem harmless enough.
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Surely, they are not quite so keen to obtain the last marginalscrapingsof export orders when we are in surplus.
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The swill consists of vegetable waste and platescrapings.
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Most of the latter comprised lumps of concrete and roadscrapings.
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Over the years we have bought a large number of loads of roadscrapingswhen the roads are being resurfaced and have never had any problem.
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And since we are seeing thesescrapingsfor the shilling, we might as well be told at the expense of what service the £4 million is being obtained.
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