How To Use Mothball In A Sentence
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With all the warm woollies tucked away in your wardrobe along with mothballs for company, it is time you get yourself a brand new wardrobe.
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Staff have begun moving the remaining animals out of its zoo and mothballing the fairground.
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The plant was mothballed in February last year with the loss of 1,000 jobs.
The Sun
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Avoid using electronic repellent devices, mothballs or other unregistered products.
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Linda M. Hall and colleagues analyzed labels on mothballs and other products that contain a chemical called para-dichlorobenzene (pDCB).
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And they have reactivated a mothballed nuclear reactor that can produce weapons-grade plutonium.
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I can assure you that none of my carpetbags have mothballs in them.
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Although expected, the stench of mothballs nearly knocked us all senseless as we entered the small, stuffy hall which only grew smaller as we all piled in with our bags.
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When world demand rose, packaging companies would recommission mothballed plants, flooding the market with excess supply.
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Other technology companies have also mothballed their plans to float stock.
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Linda M. Hall and colleagues analyzed labels on mothballs and other products that contain a chemical called para-dichlorobenzene (pDCB).
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Making efficient use of space by subletting or mothballing surplus building space.
Times, Sunday Times
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It smelled of mothballs and camphor, the elemental scent of my homeland, and out came crumpled wads of tissue paper containing miniscule treasures.
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His untimely death meant the project was effectively mothballed, although it toured as a series of exhibitions during the 1970s.
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I felt like one of the mothballed judges I sometimes encounter in court (`Tell me, learned counsel, just what is this BOGOF ?
LOSING IT
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The supplier battled heroically to provide an acceptable system, until finally the project was mothballed.
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He has a 151-foot ocean-going yacht, the Highlander, with a helicopter deck (even though it's been temporarily mothballed in deference to the dismal economy) and I don't.
A Beastly Pursuit, in Rhyme
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Six coal pits were mothballed in the hope that they could be reopened in a time of better economic conditions.
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The decision to mothball the shuttle fleet has not come without criticism, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden noted.
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Instead of using mothballs, which are made with a chemical that can cause headaches and irritate your respiratory tract, employ a natural option.
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The slowing economy is beginning to be felt in another major sector as huge building projects are delayed or mothballed.
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That would still mean the plant is mothballed with huge layoffs, but workers would probably receive redundancy pay.
Times, Sunday Times
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The US Navy decommissioned them in the late 1990s and mothballed them.
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Today, an eerie silence cloaks the Carlton Hotel, which was closed and mothballed in 1997.
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Bosses told staff yesterday that 20 sites were being mothballed or closed to cut costs.
The Sun
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The company is still grappling with extensive industrial unrest, its flotation plans have been mothballed and it is projected that profits will drop 75 per cent this year to just £15 million.
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As she became hot under the collar of her polyester blouse, the smell of mothballs became over-powering and I started to sneeze.
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Inside the store were shadows and smells: leather and fresh denim, gun oil, grease, and the distinctive odor of mothballs and linseed.
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Everything emitted a mouldy odour, mingled with the smell of mothballs.
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The house smelled of dust, mothballs, old wood, and the earthy smell of old fashioned plater-coated walls in the cool morning air.
Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries...
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Although the plant has been mothballed, the damage done to Anjanwel is irreversible.
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More power plants will be mothballed as a result.
Times, Sunday Times
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But not all of the new industries were lasting successes - the oil refinery was mothballed in 1981, and the heavy-water plant shut down in 1986.
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Certainly in commercial property, projects have been mothballed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Could it be that the Navy, like its American cousins, is so anxious to get rid of at least a dozen mothballed warships that it will give them away?
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Summer days are here again, and the winter woollies have finally been put in mothballs.
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Along with a cancellation of the Shuttle NASA should mothball the space station.
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As a result, vital projects will be mothballed.
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The smell of mothballs rose to greet her.
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This resulted in the plant being mothballed in March 2000.
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In fact, he's already dipping his toe in this pool, since he plans to dig his "mankini" out of the mothballs and return to triathlon next season.
The Way We Were: The Future's So "Meh" I Gotta Wear Pom Poms
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The facility was established in 1817 in the lowland area, but was mothballed six years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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The kitchens were shut up and mothballed, and consigned to dusty history as a storage shed for garden equipment.
Times, Sunday Times
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The announcement raised hopes that their mothballed Dunfermline factory might be used for the faster and cheaper production of microchips for the next generation of lightweight electronic gadgets.
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Earlier this month, however, it emerged that Chivas has mothballed several distilleries in Scotland due to over-capacity.
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Given the current depressed state of the international airline industry, many airlines are selling off passenger aircraft or mothballing them.
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In a house that reeked so badly of mothballs, the desperate fragrance of preservation, I was surprised at how negligently my grandmother treated her furniture.
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When market forces caught up with the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, many of its research-cum-defense projects were mothballed.
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Earlier plans were mothballed when fund managers lost their appetite for another semi-state sell-off.
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With the end of the Cold War, several warships were put into mothballs.
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Avoid using electronic repellent devices, mothballs or other unregistered products.
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Bosses told staff yesterday that 20 sites were being mothballed or closed to cut costs.
The Sun
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With the end of the Cold War, several warships were put into mothballs.
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You can almost smell the mothballs on their costumes.
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A psychiatric rehabilitation service opened by Scotland's health minister two years ago is being mothballed to save cash.
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The plant was mothballed in February last year with the loss of 1,000 jobs.
The Sun
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The project was mothballed in May 1990 and financing was limited.
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The Grid may yet have to ask for mothballed plants to be brought back online.
Times, Sunday Times
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Recently a Baptist minister in San Francisco suggested that a mothballed Navy ship could be refurbished to serve as shelter for that city's thousands of homeless people.
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The kitchens were shut up and mothballed, and consigned to dusty history as a storage shed for garden equipment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is it mothballs or furniture polish or tobacco or vapour rub?
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The hospital manager said the project would be mothballed until funding became available.
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Within two years they were selling paintings and objets d' art, and within five years they had moved into the estate factor's house and mothballed Whittingehame.
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More power plants will be mothballed as a result.
Times, Sunday Times
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These submarines, built in the early 1990s, were mothballed in 1994 by the Conservative government as surplus to requirements.
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It is mothballing Web operations while it looks for a buyer of these four me-too titles.
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You can smell the lavender sachets on them, if not indeed the mothballs, and they seem to be made up of faded photographs and yellowing newspaper clippings.
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Certainly in commercial property, projects have been mothballed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other hazardous items in the bathroom or linen closets include dietary supplements, nicotine gum, mothballs, soap and chemical cleaning agents.
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In addition, promising scientific and technological developments are being mothballed because the funds and personnel needed to develop them are no longer there.
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The stench of mothballs enveloped the store as she pried off the lid, revealing a stack of carefully packed leopard skins.
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However, financial constraints have led to that project being mothballed and the Mourne sides are left with facilities that are certainly not adequate for the modern local game.
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Inside the store were shadows and smells: leather and fresh denim, gun oil, grease, and the distinctive odor of mothballs and linseed.
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They tend to be mothballed as appreciating stock, stored at significant expense in dehumidified environments away from light and risk of damage where, nevertheless, they must be expertly maintained.
Buying Into Old-Fashioned Value
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Yesterday, Virgin chief Sir Richard Branson attacked the Government as ‘cowardly’ for standing aside while British Airways mothballed the last passenger planes capable of flying faster than sound.
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To the uninitiated, mothballs are marble size balls of a campher-like substance that one puts in drawers or presses to prevent moths eating holes in clothes.
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You could also drop mothballs or peeled garlic cloves or sprinkle hot pepper into the tunnels.
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As it was, she had a thin, lumpy wool cloak, riddled with holes despite its distinct, musty smell of mothballs, to prop up her head upon.
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With the end of the Cold War, several warships were put into mothballs.
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A smell of mothballs overcame her, and she almost gagged.
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Six coal pits were mothballed in the hope that they could be reopened in a time of better economic conditions.
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The Grid may yet have to ask for mothballed plants to be brought back online.
Times, Sunday Times
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The borrowed money is used to pay for basic infrastructure on mothballed sites, which in turn allows building work to begin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Downsizing is never popular with workforces and as senior producers attempt to mothball or close marginal mines and retrench miners they run into conflict with labor groups made up of people who themselves are in the squeeze.
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The hotel has been mothballed after its electricity was cut off in October.
Times, Sunday Times
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According to him, the return to service of the three mothballed stations means the utility will not run out of access capacity by 2007.
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Energy companies have been running coal plants flat out in recent months, and half a dozen gas plants have been mothballed.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have tried using mothballs, blocks of cedar wood and regularly vacuuming the egg cases but to no avail.
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With the end of the Cold War, several warships were put into mothballs.
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The borrowed money is used to pay for basic infrastructure on mothballed sites, which in turn allows building work to begin.
Times, Sunday Times
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There has been a concerted effort to match supply to demand, with plants being mothballed and mines on temporary shutdown.
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The notion that the country can sustain a capable defence force by mothballing equipment is laughable.
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We eat "mothball cookies" (molasses cookies that were stored in a closet that was mothproofed) and have a good time.
The Diary Of A Young Girl
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Energy companies have been running coal plants flat out in recent months, and half a dozen gas plants have been mothballed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ￡5,500 creation is currently in mothballs in a warehouse in downtown Los Angeles.
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For optimal protection, store in acid-free, nonplastic containers, or in garment bags with mothballs or cedar chips.
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There was just a faint scent of lavender and mothballs about her.
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The decision to mothball the shuttle fleet has not come without criticism, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden noted.
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The facility was established in 1817 in the lowland area, but was mothballed six years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other mothballed military facilities are available if the number of detainees continues to rise.
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The original proposal had been mothballed years ago.
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There have even been rumours that the bank may mothball the plans out of spite alone.
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Oh, man, the old lady that boarded the bus is crocheting, annoying, and smells of mothballs.
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Bingo is shedding its blue rinse and mothballs image and bidding to become young, fun and sexy.
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However, since May 2000 the company has been mothballed over ongoing legal tussles and tangles.
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Factories have been closed and department stores mothballed as confidence in making major purchases has fallen.
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You could also drop mothballs or peeled garlic cloves or sprinkle hot pepper into the tunnels.
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In fact, I'm probably pretty close to how old Jessel was back then, when he'd be dragged out of mothballs to warble outmoded old songs in that peculiar nasal delivery of his.
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The borrowed money is used to pay for basic infrastructure on mothballed sites, which in turn allows building work to begin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every time she moved a book, the scent of dead trees and mothballs wafted out from the bookcase.
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Turns out that Brunswick Naval Air Station, while not closed, will be "realigned" into mothball status.
The price must be paid...
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That would still mean the plant is mothballed with huge layoffs, but workers would probably receive redundancy pay.
Times, Sunday Times
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It wanted to explore improving just part of the museum and the possibility of mothballing the collection of exhibits.
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But he now concedes that the mothballed factory would be outdated and uncompetitive. Machinery has gradually been removed from the site and little of the original plant remains.
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Now, the experts are warning that all we Brits should be prepared for such emergencies this winter because lots and lots of power stations have been mothballed.
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And they have reactivated a mothballed nuclear reactor that can produce weapons-grade plutonium.
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Now, 46 years after the last coal was mined, UK Coal thinks the case is closed and wants to suspend the mothballing and abandon the mine.
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That would still mean the plant is mothballed with huge layoffs, but workers would probably receive redundancy pay.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘Six more packets of mothballs please,’ she said, prompting this reply from a surprised assistant: ‘You must have a lot of moths.’
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Minerals found in association with uranium, especially vanadium, which is used in hardening steel, sparked the first real rush in the 1930s; uranium for bombs and energy then followed in a stuttering pattern of boom and bust into the 1980s, when the nation's nuclear energy program mostly went into mothballs.
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Industrial chemicals added to the suspected carcinogen list include naphthalene, an ingredient in mothballs and toilet bowl deodorants, and lead used to make lead-acid storage batteries, ammunition, and cable coverings.
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The kitchens were shut up and mothballed, and consigned to dusty history as a storage shed for garden equipment.
Times, Sunday Times
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The investigation, which was mothballed after only 12 weeks, was also severely criticised for manifold failures and fatal delays.
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The borrowed money is used to pay for basic infrastructure on mothballed sites, which in turn allows building work to begin.
Times, Sunday Times
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The borrowed money is used to pay for basic infrastructure on mothballed sites, which in turn allows building work to begin.
Times, Sunday Times
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The 500th report is on ordinary naphthalene, the principle ingredient in mothballs and the familiar odor in millions of closets filled with winter's woolens.
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By November 2001 the project was mothballed, pending a Government decision.
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The borrowed money is used to pay for basic infrastructure on mothballed sites, which in turn allows building work to begin.
Times, Sunday Times
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A kitchen towel hangs from her shoulder and she wipes off her fingers, damp from peeled potatoes, dishwashing liquid, diced onions, scented from mothballed blankets, soil from the window boxes-Eileen is a woman who touches everything, tastes all, digs in.
Excerpt: The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
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The original proposal had been mothballed years ago.
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Off to the Opera where people still dress to attend - many glam outfits were brought out of mothballs even in the Upper Audatorium where I managed to get cheap seats.
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The group lost 62.2 million last year as it mothballed two collieries and closed a third.
Times, Sunday Times
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Granny then put away her good clothes and strategically placed the mothballs before putting on her blue wrap-around apron to finish the unpacking.
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All three facilities, built by the Soviet Union, have been in mothballs or lightly used in recent years.
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That would still mean the plant is mothballed with huge layoffs, but workers would probably receive redundancy pay.
Times, Sunday Times
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The drawbridges will be raised and the oil paintings mothballed as workers at historic sites around the country prepare to go on strike.
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Seated next to me was a darling old woman who smelled of mothballs and whose red lipstick was slightly askew.
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Staff have begun moving the remaining animals out of its zoo and mothballing the fairground.
