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- proper noun A
maritime county ofEngland bounded bySomerset ,Wiltshire ,Hampshire ,Devon and theEnglish Channel .
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DORSET - With three towns reporting, incumbent Republican Patti Komline appears to have won the race to represent the Bennington-Rutland legislative district that includes Dorset, Danby,
RutlandHerald.com 2008
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DBRG, the word around the parade rooms in Dorset is that they opened the recruiting lines up for the week, and ended up closing them on 11AM of the first day.
We Are So Unpopular That Everyone Wants To Join SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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“Violent offences such as that against Mr Guest continue to fall in Dorset for the seventh successive year.”
Police Do As They Are Told Shock!!!! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Last month the popular retirement area of Poole in Dorset said its two remaining cemeteries would run out of space within a year, while in Wales church leaders have warned of a "burial crisis", with a quarter of grounds already full and 43% with fewer than 20 spaces left.
Are cemeteries the new safe investment? Patrick Collinson 2010
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Under Labour it tried to persuade cabinet ministers to use Poundbury, the prince's mock Georgian village in Dorset, as a model for ecotowns; advised the Department of Health on the design of hospitals; and lobbied the Treasury, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department of Culture on design matters.
Prince Charles offers to take on key architectural planning role Robert Booth 2010
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And the OT opportunities come Olympics time should be LEGENDARY in Dorset! on February 12, 2010 at 4: 37 pm MPS Probie
We Are So Unpopular That Everyone Wants To Join SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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By now Wordsworth had moved from Racedown in Dorset to Alfoxden in
Notes on 'The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster' 2008
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I wish you all a happy holiday in Dorset Newms, my favourite English County.
Off To Dorset Newmania 2008
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Mike Best, head of Beaminster secondary school, a mixed comprehensive in Dorset, took part in the survey.
Archive 2008-01-01 Jonathan 2008
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Both passages were written at Racedown in Dorset, among the poorest of agricultural counties at the end of the eighteenth century.
Notes on 'The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster' 2008
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