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examples from OG10:
129. In an effort to reduce their inventories, Italian vintners have cut
prices; their wines are priced to sell, and they do.
180. Quasars are so distant that their light has taken billions of years
to reach the Earth; consequently, we see them as they were during the
formation of the universe.
192. Cajuns speak a dialect brought to southern Louisiana by the four
thousand Acadians who migrated there in 1755; their language is basically
seventeenth-century French to which English, Spanish, and Italian words have
been added.
251. The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush
with extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of
DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970's.
261. Born in Calcutta in 1940, author Bharati Mukherjee became a United
States citizen in 1988; she has lived in England and Canada, and first came
to the United States in 1961 to study at the
Iowa Writers' Workshop.
268. Ranked as one of the most important of Europe's young playwrights,
Franz Xaver Kroetz has written forty plays; his works--translated into over
thirty languages--are produced more often than those of any other
contemporary German dramatist. | 
