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‘Regions can be affected.’

[⟨det (plur region.n)⟩ affected.a]

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The contract concerns water quality and the flooding of residential areas, which can affect more than thirty “communes”: the three most affected regions being the Louhans metropolitan area, Bletterans, and Voiteur.
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Preventive measures include drinking only bottled water, brushing teeth, washing food, avoiding fruits washed with tap water (or consuming only peeled fruits, such as bananas and oranges), and altogether avoidance of travel to the affected regions.
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According to, famines were therefore not natural phenomena, but rather a result of the breakdown, in the wake of localized crop failures, of the social and economic networks in the affected regions.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Thus, sand filters are a good option in Vietnam and in other affected regions with high concentrations of dissolved iron.
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In sharp contrast to most affected regions, the Hawaii Department of Agriculture says the moth “has not been a significant pest in Hawaii” and finds it beneficial in a few cases, because it kills some invasive plants, including gorse and blackberry.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

This can be explained by some variation of the sun gravity exerted on the earth, particularly in the affected regions, where the moon will impede the usual gravitational pull of the sun exerted on the earth: The regions of the umbral path will have less gravitational force exertion, less than the other parts of the earth, and this difference between adjacent parts will cause the trembling and the quaking of the earth in the affected regions.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Alberto Pizango, president of an Indian rights group speaking for the protesters, warned the government to be’ ’ very careful’ ’ as it attempts to bring order to the affected regions.
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The Governments of the affected regions signed agreements suspending taxation in face of the famine, allowing the farmers to grow their own crops, releasing all political prisoners and returning all property and lands seized.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A team at Google has been gathering information we hope will be useful to residents of the affected regions and the relief agencies working to help them.
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This rating was disputed by those who lived in the worst affected regions and witnessed with their own eyes the many partially and totally collapsed chimneys, which according to the EMS scale as described at the British Geological Survey’s own website could be seen as conferring to the Bishop’s Castle Earthquake a rating of at least 7, the same rating granted to the lower – magnitude Folkestone earthquake of 2007 according to the website of the British Geological Survey.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In Western Ukraine, the six most affected regions are Ivano – Frankivsk, Chernvitsy, Zakarpattya, Lviv, Ternopil and Vinitsia, where some 40,000 houses in 655 settlements, more than 30,000 hectares of croplands and nearly 700 kilometres of roads have been severely damaged by flooding.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

However, it is clear that the epidemic has profound implications for economies in affected regions as primary wage earners and caretakers fall sick, require care, and eventually dies, usually consisting of individuals of prime working age.
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In Wikipedia:

Due to this linear relationship, changes in the gene cluster due to mutations generally result in similar changes in the affected regions.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

If you are involved in an eBay transaction with a member in one of these affected regions, this is a reminder that their ability to complete the transaction may be delayed, and we encourage you to be patient with them.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Tensions have upped in the affected regions with cross – border cattle raids on the increase and now brutal and armed violence becoming order of such raids.
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These vulnerabilities, when affected by major hemorrhage or hypotension during the peripartum period, can result in ischaemia of the affected pituitary regions leading to necrosis.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

People living in drought – affected regions of the country urgently need food, water, emergency treatment for malnutrition and support to recover and rebuild livelihoods devastated by the drought.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

There are a lot of nervous parties watching this vote, parts suppliers to Boeing, businesses in the affected regions, and of course, almost every major airline around the world, “Bauer said.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Fillon said he understood people’s fears and promised $ 503 million in aid to the most affected regions, many in France’s depressed northeast.
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Queried on 2013-05-24.