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  • In terms of costs: In order to moor a 50ft boat for 10 years, owners can expect to pay a one-off fee of £30,000 €41,000 for a prime river-front spot.

    Streets on the Thames Charlie Corbett 2011

  • The conservancy has also commissioned a report that proposes incorporating the ship into a river-front redevelopment plan in Philadelphia that includes a casino, hotels and restaurants.

    Legendary Liner Has New Owner 2011

  • The Marco Polo, operated by a Hong Kong chain, sits across from a pleasing river-front park where you can watch people practicing tai chi.

    Fast Track to Wuhan, China 2010

  • CNBC highlighted this week the other Virginia project included in the report: Lancaster resident Ron Edwards, who says boaters visiting his river-front restaurant have been blocked by the fallout from a dredging project.

    McCain-Coburn stimulus report gets it wrong 2010

  • People have these boat houses and beautiful little river-front homes, and the water just had nowhere to go.

    CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2008 2008

  • Batture lands are hydrologically linked to the Mississippi River, flood-prone, and contain remnant habitat for “big river” species (e.g., pallid sturgeon) as well as river-front plant communities; they are too narrow to map as a separate level IV ecoregion.

    Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA) 2008

  • The batture lands are hydrologically connected to the Mississippi River, are flood-prone, and contain remnant habitat for “big river” species (e.g., pallid sturgeon) as well as river-front plant communities.

    Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA) 2008

  • Wanna sell mii sum river-front property in Brooklyn?

    One day I become shedding, bad-tempered butterfly. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • He lived in the river-front Limehouse area of London's docklands and was the prime mover and force behind the SDP.

    On David Owen 2007

  • The success of ‘Roughing It’ naturally made him cast about for other autobiographical material, and he remembered those days along the river-front in Hannibal — his skylarking with Tom Blankenship, the Bowen boys, John Briggs, and the rest.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

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