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• And now anyone who’s been worried all along about the virus and just wants to know can get the test, Box said.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2020
• Ironically, the Germans had known all along about the source of the poison gas in the harbor.
  — Jennet Conant, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• The government has banned fishing along about 50 miles of coastline.
  — NBC News, 6 June 2021
• The government has banned fishing, a crucial economic industry, along about 50 miles of coast in the wake of the incident.
  — NBC News, 2 June 2021
• The government has banned fishing along about 80 kilometers (50 miles) of coastline.
  — Bharatha Mallawarachi, ajc, 6 June 2021
• That included two projects along about 14 miles of border in San Diego from where the barrier ends in the Pacific Ocean to the mountains that some say serve as a natural barrier.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
• Over the past year, researchers with the conservation group Sky Island Alliance have been studying animals along about 30 miles of the border using dozens of cameras.
  — AZCentral.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• For their part, labor unions had been divided all along about Biden's attempt to create a vaccine mandate, with many nurses and teachers groups in favor, but many police and fire unions opposed.
  — David Koenig, ajc, 15 Jan. 2022
• Authorities said fire led to evacuations along about a half-dozen roads and subdivisions.
  — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2021
• For their part, labor unions had been divided all along about President Biden's attempt to create a vaccine mandate, with many nurses and teachers groups in favor, but many police and fire unions opposed.
  — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2022
• Teams of workers wearing white overalls and blue gloves are using jet hoses to clear small, mysterious clumps of oil that drifted ashore last year along about six km of Croatia's northern Adriatic coast, moving fast before the tourists arrive.
  — Fox News, 27 Apr. 2023
• Look for Sundy Village to rise along about seven acres of city blocks in mid-2023, according to Pebb Capital, a real estate and private equity investment firm that is behind the development.
  — Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Mar. 2021
• Meanwhile, at the mansion they're headed to, Mary arrives early to find hostess Meredith in the bathtub, luxuriating equally in both fragrant bubbles and the triumph of having been right all along about their allegedly felonious castmate.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024