If they came down Forest Road with a radar gun they would find rich pickings indeed, speed tables notwithstanding. |
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Others opt for tamer pickings, such as lobster mushrooms and summer chanterelles on the fogbound coast of Oregon. |
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Believing that easy pickings were in store, the American warships formed up and closed range. |
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While these crisis shares could provide rich pickings, those tempted require strong stomachs. |
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The only other fish to be weighed in were 5 herring, one tarwhine and a few whiting, pretty meager pickings. |
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For the time being, there was a minor bounty on his head, which led him to be prime pickings for the two partners. |
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The female menopause, with its hot flushes, night sweats and mood swings, offers rich pickings for jokes and comedy sketches. |
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They provide easy pickings and a good source of revenue and it doesn't require too much brain power. |
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The rich pickings have brought out hordes of unscrupulous and fraudulent operators. |
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Gas companies profit when oil prices rise, and face slim pickings indeed when times are rough. |
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We are the only people back in at present, and the area could be seen as easy pickings for looters. |
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Attracted by his free market policies and the rich pickings to be made from privatised industries, foreign capital poured into the country. |
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The use of counterfeit and stolen cards is escalating, with conmen drawn to the rich pickings of out-of-town shopping centres. |
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With the soaring temperatures, people are going to bed and forgetting to secure their homes, providing rich pickings for thieves. |
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But by warning people that burglars are on the prowl, it is hoped the criminals will not be able to take advantage of any easy pickings. |
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But compromised nutrition, crowded living, inadequate ventilation and late diagnosis all combine to make the poor easy pickings. |
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Such crimes consist of lawbreakers lurking about looking for easy pickings and comprise most of the crimes on campus. |
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He also knows that there is bacon to be had, left over pickings from my breakfast. |
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For years they had been pillaging the various shops that had occupied the Tea Rooms and hoped for a few more pickings. |
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The depths of poverty make the area easy pickings for brothel agents, or Aunties, as the procurers of young girls are known locally. |
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Starlings had the pickings from the grass one side of the hairpin road, fieldfares the other. |
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Now the Goods Shed restaurant buys much of their pickings, and features their home-made wild cherry and elderflower on its drinks list. |
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When you think about it how could a straight, red-blooded man possibly resist the easy pickings of a good wedding reception? |
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Playing against loaded dice and marked cards, the drunken soldier was easy pickings. |
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Handbags, mobile phones on tables, coats on backs of chairs are all easy pickings for light-fingered thieves. |
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Buddhism suffered greatly from these raids, since its unfortified monasteries offered easy pickings. |
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In Yuma this afternoon the pickings are slim. There is only a handful of buckle bunnies and they are already paired off with the winners. |
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Affluent professionals living in the city centre are being targeted by thieves on the prowl for rich pickings at plush apartments. |
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After several years of fat pickings, the Swiss watch industry is tightening its belt. |
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Fortymile had approximately 260 miners, but the gold pickings were thin in comparison to what was to come. |
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For the next five trading sessions, investors have slim pickings. |
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These pirates or buccaneers were part of the French fleet as Curacao would have been a rich prize for these pirates who were always on the lookout for rich pickings. |
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Expensive golf equipment makes rich pickings for thieves, and the lucrative nature of golf crime was highlighted by a recent theft from the pro shop at the Golf Club. |
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During the 1990s, the growth in the number of working mothers who bought ready-made meals for their babies and young children led to rich pickings for baby food firms. |
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In the meantime, despite the anorexic pickings currently being offered us, we still need to honor our duty as citizens by heading to the polls on Election Day. |
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Short of sneakers and flip-flops, the pickings are paradoxically slim. |
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Tea Partiers looking for a third-party candidate to cast a protest vote are left with slim pickings. |
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AlbuquerqueThis sleepy southwestern town has Native American folklore and petroglyphs, but slim pickings for social life. |
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This administration has debauched our once independent civil service. It has also plundered our pension funds, condemning millions to meagre pickings in their retirement. |
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Despite ministerial promises of rich pickings and public support from various quangos, it appears that only a few scraps will be handed out to Scottish firms. |
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I look like easy pickings for the local bullies, but I'm not. |
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Perhaps the slimness of the pickings Terry Connor has had to sift through offered an explanation. |
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Again, history has shown us that with enforcement, the easy pickings are basically people who are low-level dealers. |
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This situation can make for easy pickings for the occasional dishonest or malevolent employee. |
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These men will themselves be easy pickings for any dissident or opposition movement, armed or unarmed. |
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Those involved in cockling may be coming to this county with the expectation of rich pickings, but if they break the law, it could prove costly for them. |
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With their heavy packs and rifles, the troops would have been easy pickings in the waist-deep choppy water, he said. |
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Lake Oku clawed frogs are tiny – averaging a little over 30 millimetres – and would be easy pickings for predatory fish. |
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Learning to be angels Slim pickings Not in everyone's lifetime What's in a peg? |
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Only are bottled wines of the best vintages, from the best terroirs and the richest pickings. |
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De-clutter the house and sell the pickings at a car boot sale. |
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Police have warned householders not to leave easy pickings for burglars following a spate of crimes where property was stolen after windows and doors were left unlocked. |
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If the grand pooh-bahs of the GOP think they can find someone to push her aside, their pickings seem drearily slim. |
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Top institutional investors finding it hard to locate rich pickings on world markets are turning to the sport of kings to raise money for charity. |
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It did not take him long to realise that much of the system of locum recruitment and payment was infected by barely controlled chaos and promised the dishonest rich pickings. |
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After that, the pickings are slim and involve officials far less famous than the ubiquitous Palin. |
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They were easy pickings for predators, never having been outside before. |
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While the long food chains provide the multinational suppliers and the supermarkets with rich pickings, they are not good for the producer, the product or the consumer. |
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This also allows her to examine those peculiarities of current and shoreline that make stretches of water like the Pentland Firth such rich pickings for local wreckers. |
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A quantum calculation Rich pickings for the sharks Mumblecore meets the mainstream An in-house blockbuster ReprintsHis three hawks are brighter plumed. |
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The pickings are is still relatively modest with only 30 films per year. The important thing however, is that these new limbs are definitely there and the environment remains favourable to their growth. |
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Each vintage will reflect the distinctive characteristics of the successive pickings and the natural concentration of the juice that is extracted. |
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This revived Caribbean trade provided rich new pickings for a wave of piracy. |
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Young people who cannot find meaningful work and who cannot participate in the political process are ripe pickings for religious fanatics and terrorist recruiters. |
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Around 59th and Lexington, where Dry Dock Savings Bank is located, pickings are lush for the purple-pantsuited culture vulture. |
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Gilbert wandered through...the haunts of ravenous dogs and homeless cats that kept themselves alive on the choice pickings of the city's garbage. |
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He liked the pickings which the job brought him much better than the job itself. |
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If the Prime Minister of the country is willing to break his promise, to break his word, to the widow of a veteran, Danny Williams and Rodney MacDonald are easy pickings. |
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Those are the people who are the easy pickings. Those are the people who it is easy for the police to go after because they are visible, they are on the street. |
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Its sandy-gravelly terroir favours early harvests and enables, through the meticulous selective pickings, the best of the Sauvignon to be expressed. |
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During the shallow dives, the murrelet will pick off and eat individuals one at a time. The swarms of small fish boiling at the surface will attract other murrelets and gulls eager for easy pickings. |
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Few go in search of bright lights or easy pickings. |
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A first trie during the early September fine weather was mostly to clean out inappropriate grey rot, though various subsequent pickings through to early October yielded some good botrytis. |
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Because it's pretty slim pickings in terms of people who are comfortable with these issues, and if in Parliament there isn't anyone, it seems to me that's very sad indeed. |
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Given the slim pickings, it is not clear just how seriously they take this role and how they intend to arrive at an overall result by year's end when these plurilateral consultations have not produced even partial results. |
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This opportunity for rich pickings hasn't gone unnoticed. |
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Craig McShane spotted mum Allison Causer walking through an underpass with her flatmate and thought there would be easy pickings. |
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But for a grape escape without the masses, Languedoc-Roussillon is a vast vineyard snaking from east to west, offering rich pickings for wine lovers. |
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