How To Use Coast In A Sentence

There’s a town on the central coast of British Columbia called Bella Coola, B.C. that could probably use a little attention right now. Blogging Batholiths Part 2 - The Panda's Thumb
A couple of phone calls, arranged by a deep-sea diver I came to know while working on a story on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua, led me to an alternately boastful and paranoidly surreptitious man named Steve. The Lampshade
The air in this bulge then slides over the unexpanded air over the sea resulting in a pressure difference at sea level between the landward and seaward sides of the coast.
The snowy dome of Fujisan reddening in the sunrise rose above the violet woodlands of Mississippi Bay as we steamed out of Yokohama Harbour on the 19th, and three days later I saw the last of Japan — a rugged coast, lashed by a wintry sea. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Large numbers of vestal moths and a few crimson speckled moths, both normally resident in the Mediterranean, have been seen on the south-west and south-east coasts and in Gwynedd.

Britain has a window of opportunity to bring her coastline alive again. Times, Sunday Times
At least five people were killed when an overcrowded migrant boat capsized last month which was dramatically caught on camera by Italian coastguards. The Sun
According to noted plant ecologist Andre Clewell, this vegetative mix is normally found on the coast - more than 15 miles away.
Mediterranean to look out for a French and Spanish squadron, which had been on the coast of Portugal, but returned to Ferrol --- I received all your letters by the Turkish corvette, which is arrived at Messina. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
Many of the wrecks around our coasts are either mine or torpedo victims, and either way there is a colossal bang, the ship gets a big chunk blown out of it and the rest lands in a heap nearby.
From the early 1620s, coastal Indians supplied wampum (sacred shell beads, polished and strung in strands, belts, or sashes) to Dutch traders who exchanged it with inland natives for beaver pelts.
Rob also reckons that the south-west coast of Ireland has some of the best sailing grounds in the world - particularly around Roaring Water Bay in West Cork.
Beautiful, green, the remoteness of Exmoor counterpointed by the glorious surf of the Atlantic beaches, coast roads with views of the craggy shoreline. Archive 2009-06-01
Originating in the early 1970's, these were the workhorses of BC's big wood logging operations up and down the coastland.
South to south-west winds will reach 30-40 mph this morning with gusts of 50-70 mph in some coastal areas.
Clear information boards indicate the location of different types of trees which include Persian, Japanese and black walnut trees, coastal and dawn redwoods, cedar of Lebanon, atlas and deodar cedars, and swamp cypresses.
Star staff Saturday, August 22, 2009 - Powered by SIDON: The southern coastal city of Sidon saw banners fill its streets and lights brighten up its sky days before the Holy Month of weather in Baltimore has been sweltering lately, putting many at risk for heat-related conditions. such as Italy criticised Internazionale coach Jose Mourinho for comments the Portuguese made about Ramadan at the weekend. WN.com - Articles related to Lagos Fires Tourism Through Sports
It includes two passes over the classic Whaanga Coast test, which hugs the Tasman Sea coastline and is rated by many as the best stage in the entire championship.
The moon passing through the outer region of the Earth's shadow, known as the penumbra, will be visible from Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia's west coast at Stars and Stripes
They had divers arsenals, or piratic harbors, as likewise watch towers and beacons, all along the sea-coast; and fleets were here received that were well manned with the finest mariners, and well served with the expertest pilots, and composed of swift sailing and light-built vessels adapted for their special purpose. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
And according to Mr. Trunfio, the company is now "getting ready" to begin aquafarming on the East Coast with a new partner. NYT > Home Page
There is only one port along this rocky coast.
In the days following the D-Day landings, Allied troops carved a tenuous foothold on the coast of Normandy.
At any rate, there is a worrying trend developing along the North Mayo coast.
It is also exciting that it's come to the east coast for the first time, following the Mod.
First he was writing, then he was hiking, then he went to Argentina to clear his head and drive along the coast (a two mile narrow strip overlooking the intercoastal waterway, hardly scenic). Sanford visiting family in Sullivan's Island
This dominion not only extends over the open seas, but also over all creeks, arms of the sea, havens, ports, and tide-rivers, as far as the reach of the tide, around the coasts of the kingdom.
He was a powerful monarch, -- so powerful that the Greeks, who had built cities all along the coast of Asia Minor, in the country called Ionia, never spoke of him except as "The Great King. The Story of the Greeks
Several events of fulminating epidemic disease broke out since 1999, which often caused 100% mortality of abalone Haliotis drversicotor aquatilis farmed in Fujian and Guangdong coasts.
The coastal regions, those richest in marine life, were found to have the highest concentrations.
The space shuttle is coasting from a very high speed and high altitude when it flies hypersonically.
Exact positions of the 120 pegs will depend on the state of the beach due to the recent coastal erosion.
Buying in a smaller city or coastal town gives them a more balanced lifestyle without the cold turkey of going without any urban facilities. Times, Sunday Times
Waved round the coast, up-called a pitchy cloud340 Paradise Lost: The First Book
Since 2001, areas north of Point Conception to an intersect with the Oregon coast has been closed to drift gillnet fishing from August 15th through November 15th in order to protect endangered leatherback and loggerhead sea turtles. Permit to Kill Pacific Sea Turtles and Whales Requested by Seafood Company
We are a long way from the coast.
The hurricane wreaked terrible damage on the east coast, at Miami and the Florida Keys.
The geographical results were fruitful; the Ross Sea, the Admiralty Range and the Great Ice Barrier were discovered and some eight hundred miles of Antarctic coastline were broadly delineated. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
The far northwest coast of Tasmania is a wild place. Times, Sunday Times
This in some degree corresponds with Captain Cook's record of the irregularity of his compass when he passed near this part of the coast, in consequence of which he called the peaked island to the westward of the cape, Magnetical Island: this irregularity, however, was not noticed by me in my observations near the same spot; and the difference observed by him may very probably have been occasioned by the ship's local attraction, which in those days was unknown. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
Meanwhile, the brownish-blackish gunk is drifting along the coast to the northeast, Brower said. The Lovecraft News Network
Thousands of miles of unspoilt coastline, isolated and untouched lakes and pristine mountain ranges are there for the discovering.
Since the ancient and modern, along the southeast coast of South Australia is the trade must pass through the park and a transit point, as early as the Ming Dynasty have been on the "maritime trade".
Watson had grown up on the rocky coast of New Brunswick in a village with the lyrical name Saint Andrews by the Sea. The Whale Warriors
Meanwhile, what I think as a longtime recreational striper angler is this: (1) Make stripers gamefish coast-wide with no commercial fishing or sale of wild stripers at all. Uncategorized Blog Posts
From the dark streets of the city, whether lit by a single streetlamp or brazenly flashing neon signs, to the desolate coastline, where Marlowe is first blackjacked by an unknown assailant, there is no safe haven from disorder and danger. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
As we drew closer to the system I cut the engines and let the Moonshadow coast the rest of the way in.
Whether you ride a moped or a Honda, a scooter or a vintage Hog, the organisers of the annual North Coast Children's Motorcycle Toy Run want you to join the ranks raising money for charity this weekend.
The capital of the overseas territory of French Polynesia, a port on the northwest coast of Tahiti in the Society Islands of the southern Pacific Ocean.
The only new films on the coasts today are art house flicks.
I love successionist tendencies, be they Texas, Northern California, the south, Alaska or Coastopia. The palin drone
I had been planning a trip to the West Coast.
The hair of coastal wolves also appears to be coarser and better at shedding water, perhaps to cope with the heavy rainfall on the west coast.
From the tip of the headland you are treated to a view of more unblemished promontories dotted along the coast.
The ship is edging in with the coast.
Every south coast derby is important but because of the club's position, stage of the season, and what's at stake the magnitude of this fixture has trebled tenfold.
The track hugs the coast for a mile.
Two tugs from Clyde coastguards tried unsuccessfully to pull the vessel clear and it was freed the next day on the early morning tide.
The next morning, I turned away from the dazzling coast and took the road inland to bandit country. Times, Sunday Times
During 18th and 19th centuries this area was known as the Barbary Coast and was feared for its regular piracy of European shipping. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
On the ‘dinosaur coast’, near Scarborough, the footprints of a diplodocus show that the sandstone there was laid down 150 million years ago.
A wide area of coastal plains extends across the western seaboard, a region of phosphate mining and the cultivation of citrus, olives, tobacco, and grains.
The oil tanker ran / went aground off the Spanish coast.
Fish were abundant, to be sure, along that coast, where the invisible fruitfulness of the sea made compensation for the blank barrenness of the land; but they were swift and wary, and had to be caught, one at a time, outwitted and outspeeded in their own element. Kings in Exile
The state's intentions, of using the entire coastline for desalination, were revealed when chief minister Ashok Chavan recently instructed officials to explore the idea of allotting land to private parties for setting up desalination plants on design, build, operate and transfer basis. Daily News & Analysis
Two years ago, he hoped to launch a host of satellite offices, from the East Coast to the Far East.
It's a coastal cruiser, an island hopper, or a gunkholer.
Near Australia, catsharks have been observed inhabiting ledges and caves, seagrass or kelp beds, coastal reefs, and both sandy and rocky bottoms.
Take in views of the Carmel Valley Hills and enjoy the spectacular scenery of the Monterey pine forests, rocky coastline and vistas of crashing surf, as a chorus of sea lions barks on the rocks.
Epsom and Ewell's historians assume that he would have found it hard to maintain course and so could not land at any of the airfields near the south coast.
Most records since 1947 have been for coastal districts, which perhaps just reflects the distribution of observers at the migration seasons.
It clearly showed the vast armada of the invasion fleet standing just off the coast of Normandy.
Selsey is a village on the south coast, eight miles from Chichester. Times, Sunday Times
The intertidal mudflats and coastal lagoons are important staging sites for migratory shorebirds, including red knot Calidris canutus, white-rumped sandpiper C. fuscicollis and Hudsonian godwit Limosa haemastica. Península Valdés, Argentina
He is one of the best producers on the coast and his family has been growing lemons there for six generations. Times, Sunday Times
He measured the distance to the nearest Antarctic coast, and onwards to the South Pole.
As the car swings onto the East Coast Road, on the way back to Chennai, we find a man-lion dancing on the sandy strip between kiosks advertising Kodak film and ‘Frooti’, and the metalled speedway.
On one wreck off the south coast we saw huge lobsters scuttling across the ship. Times, Sunday Times
A pollution expert with the coast guard service is assessing the damage caused by the capsizing.
GRIFFIN: Let's move up the coast to St. Augustine, that is where Kathleen Koch is standing by. CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2004
Only the transom and a small section of the keel of the vessel - owned by the Coastal Forces Heritage Trust - were left.
A region and former kingdom of southern Europe along the northeast Adriatic coast.
Breed exclusively by fresh and brackish water and marshes; often in coastal waters on migration.
The worst winter storms of the century lashed the east coast of North America.
In a video provided by the French military, the forces are seen rappelling from a helicopter at night with night vision goggles, before the aircraft lands in a field to pick up a man, who appears to be the Japanese ambassador to Ivory Coast. France rescues Japanese envoy in Ivory Coast
He had ridden the camel all the way from the coast and was under the impression that they had become friends.
The teammate then moves to the top of the circular banked track and coasts while he recovers for his next stint.
Commercial and private sea craft were plentiful nearer the coast and the boardwalk at the beaches was lit up for nighttime visitors.
The view from the fort is the only place where you can see the three islands located off the coast at the same time. Mazatlan - not just another resort
It wasn't until I got back home that I figured out what makes the southern coast unique, in this island at least.
Despite Cairn's mixed results, the Arctic waters off the coast of Greenland remain enticing for oil companies, where experts estimate that 4. 1bn barrels of untapped crude lies. Cairn Energy fails to find enough oil off the coast of Greenland
Investigators will be checking passenger manifests of outgoing flights from the east coast early on Tuesday morning.
To get this scoop, Naxos brought its recording equipment to the Wexford Festival Opera on the coast of Ireland.
Britain's worst oil-related disaster was the 1988 explosion and fire on the North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha off the Scottish coast, which killed 167 riggers.
The vegetation consists of coastal sage scrub, chaparral and groves of Englemann oak and live oak.
The day had been a rollercoaster ride of emotion.
Even Ethiopia, situated on a high plateau, which was cut up by mountains and vast canyons that made internal travel difficult, was accessible only from an exceptionally hot and unpleasant desert coast.
Also look out for Ireland's finest west coast harmonisers, The Thrills and gritty US punk duo, The Kills on the evening session stage.
The mountainous Mid-Coastal Sedimentary ecoregion lies outside of the coastal fog zone and is typically underlain by massive beds of sandstone and siltstone in contrast to the volcanics of Ecoregion 1d. Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)
I know the west coasters want to keep everyone out of the area except themselves, but I had hoped we had gone beyond the little Scotlander idea.
Armed forces police and coastguard services, approximately 300.
The results showed that the sea-land breeze and its annual variation in the coastal area of the northern Yellow Sea is obvious and it is seasonal maldistribution.
The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship which was then riding at anchor and waiting for its cargo.
Cyclone detection doppler radars are replacing the conventional analogue radars in important locations along the east coast.
We hug the coastline in a vain attempt to seek shelter from the wind. Times, Sunday Times
A number of questions crowded to Gregory's mind, as they crossed the jettied inlet and headed down the coast. El Diablo
So many ships have foundered along this coast, driven onto its reefs by storms or lured there by wreckers ' lights, that pieces from Spanish galleons still wash up with the tide.
Agriculture (MOFA) on Tuesday said all canoes along Ghana's coast have been assigned registration numbers for easy identification and other outreach Africa, has been identified as the foodstuff to provide food security for Africa, given the assets and opportunities prevailing on the ... WN.com - Photown News
The owner seems intent on exploring one of the most remote and beautiful coastlines in Europe. Times, Sunday Times
The cops came with loud sirens blaring and I just prayed that no one would discover me until the coast was clear and I could get away.
The Fife coast harbours many insects which are rare elsewhere in Britain.
The fishes of this age were able enough coastwise swimmers.
Carl, a reckless billionaire adventurer, has financed an expedition by an expert spelunker and diver named Frank McGuire Richard Roxburgh, to chart the unexplored portions of Esa'ala and discover a previously uncharted route through Esa'ala and back to the ocean coast. Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Sanctum
Intelligence reported enemy activity just off the coast.
They were now near the east end of the north coast of Cuba, and they stood in to a harbour which the Admiral called Santa Catalina, and which is now called Cayo de Moa. Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete
Authorities released a dispersing liquid into the coastal waters to dilute the slick.
He says he feels a special affinity with the south coast city where his British odyssey began. Times, Sunday Times
It occurs mostly on sheltered, well-watered cliff faces and damp coastal flats where there is local protection from wind and spray.
On the west coast, Vancouver has long been a gastronomic capital. Times, Sunday Times
The island's best beaches lie along the norther and eastern coasts with plenty of sand to choose from.
The fleet is manoeuvring off the east coast.
The northerly breeze may bring one or two light showers to northern and eastern coastal counties. Times, Sunday Times
It is the Oporto silene (S. portensis), a curious growth, a lover of the sea-side dunes, which, though of Portuguese origin, as its name would seem to indicate, ventures inland, even as far as my part of the country, where it represents perhaps a survivor of the coastal flora of what was once a More Hunting Wasps
Opponents then charged that the east coast institution was jettisoning part of the city's cultural legacy.
If you live on the coast, in a floodplain, near a river or an inland waterway. Houston Chronicle
Over my shoulder you see some of those famous high-rise condos that you see along south Florida's coast.
We stayed in the relaxed beach resort on the east coast of the island called Kamari.
Thousands of sunseekers flocked to Britain's south coast on Sunday to enjoy the last remnants of summer.
These studies also show that birds using easterly coastal flyways in the fall return by more westerly central routes in spring.
It refers to urban decline and work on rural and coastal areas.
LONDON — Coast guards are hunting for a pair of missing American balloonists last detected piloting their craft over the Adriatic Sea in rough weather, officials said Wednesday. Richard Abruzzo And Carol Rymer Davis Missing In European Balloon Race
To prevent beaches from disappearing, landowners build rock walls called groins perpendicular to the coast.
Under international maritime law ships are prohibited from discharging raw sewage within 12 miles of the coast. Times, Sunday Times
With more than 3,600 Filipinos riding out the typhoon in sturdy school buildings, town halls, churches and relatives 'homes, roads in and out of coastal Isabela province were deserted and blocked by collapsed trees and power lines. Super Typhoon Strikes The Philippines
Alabama's Gulf Coast extends over 32 miles of beaches along the Gulf of Mexico and inland areas of live oaks and pines, freshwater lakes, rivers, bayous, and coves, all showing an abundance of birds.
They winter in open, coastal environments, favoring bays and inlets with sandy shores and shellfish beds.
We know there will be a Coast Guard cutter in the area potentially working with us in TW06.
Severe winds have been battering the north coast.
I practically drove right onto the beachfront, an unspoiled, unpeopled coastline that seemed to stretch to infinity. Smithsonian Mag
Because it is hidden in a valley, the first time you see this inverted roller coaster ride properly is when you are about to join the queue. The Sun
So it was plan B and to the sea where eventually we ended up in the hide on the south side of this extensive firth on the east coast. Country diary: Cromarty Firth
Some designs fit neatly into circles and would be suitable for, say, small turned boxes, coasters or shallow platters.
Parts of Cornwall's coast and its coves are notorious for such dangerous conditions. Times, Sunday Times
Originally from the north Norfolk coast, he was bought up with the tradition that when the maroons went up, the whole community downed tools and rushed to help.
Or maybe the burlesquing hepcat Spaniards will roll one by the somnolent Coasters. shedders on 9 May 2010 Pop World Cup 2010: Round of 16 Match 8 – Spain 1 Cote d’Ivoire 0 | FreakyTrigger
The bookstore has also produced a range of other items to go with the series, including stationery, notebooks, coasters and calendars, and is running an in-store competition to promote the launch.
The West Country is the part of Britain most visited by walkers and nature lovers, but until now they have had to make do with a patchy network of footpaths and coastal walks.
The chiefs left the ship displeased at what they called stingy conduct in the captain, as they were accustomed to receive trifling presents from the traders on the coast. Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River
You cannot own property within 50 kilo of the coast or 100 kilo from the border as a foreigner. Moving My Personal Household Effects with an FM 2
Coastal wetlands are also characteristic of this ecoregion, and near the first foothills of the western range there are some arid, rocky scrublands with abrupt relief, where columnar, candelabra and opuntia cacti typically grow. Sechura desert
The canoes are often fitted out with sails and are well suited for navigating the waters of the Darien between the Panamanian coast and the islands.
Coastal towns like Barranquilla were more supportive of innovative and imaginative literature.
The coastal road diverges from the freeway just north of Santa Monica.
Ascot has royalty, Goodwood offers glorious views towards England's south coast, but, for sheer style and panache, Longchamp is peerless.
It refers to urban decline and work on rural and coastal areas.
Two of us they slew outright, and two more died on the way coastwards. The Path of the King
Nearing the coast we could see the beach ahead, and could hear the noise of shellfire and our rocket ships, which were pounding the beaches.
The admission of the Brisbane Bears and the West Coast Eagles into the Victorial Football League was the most significant step in the stuttering progress towards a national competition.
Kalou was a part of the Ivory Coast squad that eventually finished fourth in the tournament – losing out to Essien's Ghana in the third place play-off having been eliminated by eventual winners Egypt.
The logistical snafu was ultimately solved by Sea-Land, which converted Cam Ranh Bay into a containerport and soon had six container ships running between the West Coast and Vietnam. Shipping News
More than 750 miles of the southern part of the West Coast route has to be surveyed to record design positions.
Viola is shipwrecked off the coast of Illyria and, separated from her twin Sebastian, believes him drowned.
You try and get down to the individual soldier, airmen, sailor, Marine level, coastguardsmen duty, civilian and look them in the eye and say, ‘How's it going?’
Manatees live in shallow waters - slow-moving rivers, estuaries, saltwater bays, canals and coastal areas, especially where seagrass beds flourish.
Huge monochrome landscapes that portray the stretching expanses of the sea that sweeps up the north Norfolk coast. Times, Sunday Times
The coast sweeps northwards in a wide curve.
Adjacent coastal states have sovereign rights over the seabed mineral resources of the shelf.
An ambitious reclamation scheme on the south coast also came to nothing around this time.
Likewise, currents flow upcoast in response to upcoast wind.
He'd been late getting back to the inn, having made a wide swing along the coast after leaving Miss Rondel and stopped to birdwatch. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
The coast of Zhejiang Province is abounding in tourism resources.
There are many of places of the coast where fishermen could find the place where nets were cast, creels or maintops were lowered.
The main spine would run between the existing and heavily-used west coast and east coast lines, with spurs to Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester.
I could imagine sipping from a cup while the letters seemed to jump from the coaster, inspiring me to write! Blog – syllable studio
Do any lines run voyages along the coast? Times, Sunday Times
The French constructed a series of fortresses from Dunkirk on the Channel coast to Douai.
All these ships being of notable and approued seruice comming neere to the mouth of the Straights hard by the coast of Barbary, descried twelue tall Gallies brauely furnished and strongly prouided with men and munition, ready to seaze vpon these English ships: which being perceiued by the Captaines and Masters thereof, wee made speedy preparation for the defence of our selues, still waiting all the night long for the approching of the enemie. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Two-thirds of Californians live within 15 miles of the coast.
Overhead, a drone whirred menacingly, and a helicopter gunship cruised the coast.
The original inhabitants carved them from soft volcanic rock and almost all are positioned around the coast facing inland. Times, Sunday Times
Some elements are lost as when the sea fret covers the coast to then reappear again with echoes of previous layers, tracing a history and creating the painting's own character.
The best reader-submitted photobombs submitted by midnight this Friday, will win one of 10 double passes to the Gold Coast premiere of Hugh Jackman's new film.
Between 1936 and 1969 maritime air operations in Britain were under the control of Coastal Command units.
But he insists on painting a picture with the same old hackneyed images and rancid cliches about salt-of-the-earth heartlanders and morally vacant or cowardly coastal cosmopolitans.
Second, buoyage and charting are limited - and there's no Coast Guard or TowBoatU.S. to save your bacon if you skewer your yacht on a reef.
Beautiful sandy beaches alternate with rocky headlands, and magnificent coastal villages shine like beacons on the shore…
Heat-jaded Sahibs and Memsahibs came here to escape the coast's hottest months, they invented snooker at the pukka Ooty Club and came to gossip at Charing Cross - locations were named by the British.
He defiantly skirted the Italian coastline aboard his luxury yacht, taunting the authorities who had steadfastly refused to allow him to set foot in his native country for more than half a century.
The surge travelled southwards along the coast.
The Orissa will get a fund of Rs 140 crore from the World Bank under the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) project. Orissa to get Rs 140 crore under Integrated Coastal Zone Management project
Coastal heath vegetation is particularly colourful this wildflower season.
We observed an influx of long-tailed ducks into coastal lagoons in July, followed by dispersal to other areas in late August.
They travelled by rail to the coast and thence by boat to America.
An utterly gorgeous album, it paints an evocative portrait of a Scottish coastal village. Times, Sunday Times
Despite the apparent lack of interest, it seemed to be a rollercoaster of some substance.
Trapped, they chose to paddle three miles down the coast to Waimea, where they hoped the deep-water bay would provide a navigable channel.
It had also been the largest exporter of gold along this coast and it didn't even have a goldmine. BLOOD IS DIRT
Zachriel: Rapid climate change will result in agricultural failure, flooding of highly populated coastal areas, dislocation, disease, migration, mass extinctions, political instability and human suffering. About: Blinded by Science
The eastern plains, or llanos, account for 60 percent of the country's territory and are sparsely populated, as are the coastal lowlands.
Mangrove forests function to protect coasts from storms, erosion and abrasion, as well as providing habitat for various animals especially fish and bird species.

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