These two sequences display a typicalswitchbacktopography, as if representing separate visual maps.
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The fireplace is pivotal to the design, under the butterfly roof's nadir and theswitchbackramp landing.
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This must have been a difficult emotionalswitchbackfor any grandmother to ride, with the boys twice coming, getting closer to her, and then being removed.
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Is it not a fact that many of our motorways resemble cobbled streets and dangerous switchbacks rather than major highways?
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The road is like aswitchback—it goes up and down and twists around.
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They certainly have their fun fair side, with switchbacks, and so on; but they also have most excellent entertainment of a very different kind.
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Other economies have had steady, remorseless growth; we have had theswitchbackof stop-go.
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I do not know whether he had an elevated railway in mind, aswitchback, up one hill and down another.
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It is possible to ride on switchbacks, merry-go-rounds and all sorts of dangerous things.
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One would go off the bridge, down theswitchbackand then one would face the steep hill.
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It is the small and medium-sized firms that on the whole bear the brunt of the economic cycle, the ups and downs of theswitchback.
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After seeing some of the exhibition halls, some of the children wanted to go on to theswitchback.
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There is always the danger in matters of this kind that we engage in what might be calledswitchbackpolitics.
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If you have a straight majority for decisions of this sort, the policy can go through a sort ofswitchback.
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Finally, businesses of all sizes cannot afford a return to the boom and bustswitchbackof the past.
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