Many seeds were recorded as having disappeared when they had been moved from their original piles (12.9%).
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The upstream front then propagates upstream as the flow piles up (blocking).
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The evidence, or perhaps the rhetorical use of evidence, seems to be piling up.
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Thus, action sequence 3 is applied which consists of moveforward_down and moveforward_up actions to penetrate the rockpileby wiggling in between the rock particles.
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The cameraman follows them inside, pausing briefly over apileof shoes (10-15 pair) at the door.
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No rock lines or rock piles were discovered in the course of the survey.
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As a further interpretation, consider a 'linear machine' in which apileof c chips are c split evenly, with 2d going in each direction.
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She begins the novel in the assumed persona of a young widowed painter who moves into a crumblingpilein an isolated village.
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First they sprinkle the beach with pots using seawater, and after two or three sprinklings, theypilethe sand up.
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Unlike steamboats, the piling up of bodies did not result from a few dramatic accidents.
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A heap of skulls was piled outside this front gate.
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Cassowaries consume the fruit whole, when ripe, and defecate seeds in piles away from parent trees, where seed predation rates are lower.
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A second piece of evidence is thepileof bones at the rear of each chamber, which includes skulls and all types of bone.
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Two further samples were taken from the middle of the stored manure piles after 3 months, 6 months and a year.
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Once the piles are made they take two ollas or tinajas and put one on top of the other.
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compost pile
Bulk samples from the center of thecompostpilewere collected and mixed.
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discard pile
They may not be taken from thediscardpile, and are useless if found in the hand.
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huge pile
The book's cover features a photograph of a young boy sitting at a breakfast table with ahugepileof pancakes.
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