How To Use Shetland In A Sentence
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Not just a gentle nibble as our Shetland sheep do lower down, but a strip of bark half an inch deep.
Times, Sunday Times
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A pilot whale died last Sunday morning after getting stuck in the Sullom Voe in Shetland.
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The accident threatened an ecological disaster for the remote Shetland Islands and its fishing, tourism and farming industries.
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This caused thermal uplift of Scotland and the East Shetland platform and volcanic activity.
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The captain and his crew were left drifting aimlessly on the tiny raft after their boat, the Gullborg, exploded south of Shetland almost 32 years ago.
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He mellow torpedo in setophaga shetland uncrannied unbecomingly our drippiness tomalley and mundanity filmmaker.
Rational Review
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Shetland has been almost totally denuded while at least some remnants of ancient woodland remain on Orkney, hidden in deep defiles and remoter islands.
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Jon plumped for the main course of skewered collops of Mallaig monkfish, but wasn't too keen on the other half of the combo, that Shetland salmon.
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To see Scotland's biggest broch involves a trip much further north to Shetland.
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(Kirkevaag) was made the seat of a diocese (diœcesis Orcadensis), in connexion with which a cathedra! chapter was later established, and the Shetland Islands were assigned it as an archidiaconate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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One of the most successful folk duos in the UK, they will entertain with an evening of music and tales featuring traditional songs together with dance tunes from the Shetland, Orkney and the Hebridean isles.
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Hundreds of stargazers had travelled as far north as Orkney and Shetland to witness the spectacular celestial event, but most were thwarted by clouds which obscured the rare phenomenon.
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Shakespeare, in _Midsummer Night’s Dream_, represents him as “a very Shetlander among the gossamer-winged, dainty-limbed fairies, strong enough to knock all their heads together, a rough, knurly-limbed, fawn-faced, shock-pated, mischievous little urchin.”
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
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Some data have been drawn from a study of a mental hospital1 (hereafter called Central Hospital), some from a study of a Shetland Island community2 (hereafter called Shetland Isle), some from manuals of etiquette, and some from a file where I keep quotations that have struck me as interesting.
Behavior in Public Places
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Each shetland produces enough wool for, say, one skirt or a jacket, and a wensleydale up to three sweaters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Shetland wool is so fine it can be spun as thin as a strand of silk.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the real star of the show is Shetland itself, with its stunning landscape and idiosyncratic way of life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every year a portion of the 614 residents of the island of Unst, the northernmost of the Scottish Shetland Islands, band together to decorate their stop near Baltasound.
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It includes an extension of the no-go areas around Shetland.
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After several years of decline, they have vanished almost completely in the waters around Orkney and Shetland.
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Crew members contacted Shetland coastguards to alert them and the trawler's sister vessel, the MFV Falcon was called to assist.
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The last major incident in the North Sea was in 1993, when the MV Braer carrying 85,000 metric tons of crude oil ran aground in a storm in the Shetland Islands.
Shell: 54,600 gallons of oil spilled in North Sea
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One of the Shetlands called Pinkerton is a palomino with large bulging black eyes, a long forelock, mane and tail and a sandy coloured mark down his spine.
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Since there are no rivers in Shetland, there is very little fresh water run-off in the voes (small fjords), and the chances of farmed salmon escaping up the rivers are negligible.
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I have an old Shetland wool cardigan jacket, knitted in a massive cable stitch, that I tend to wear on chilly evenings.
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The accident threatened an ecological disaster for the remote Shetland Islands and its fishing, tourism and farming industries.
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Walrus were quite commonly encountered in the Shetland Isles and the Scandinavian coasts until quite recently.
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Oil slick prompts no-fishing zone Fishermen have introduced a voluntary ban on fishing in the area surrounding the Shetland oil slick.
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There are lime rich waters, acidic tarns with all ranges in between and the Shetland Anglers Association work extremely hard to maintain the trout lochs as a top class fishing venue.
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ChevronTexaco last week revealed it had found up to 500 million barrels of recoverable crude 80 miles north-west of Shetland.
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Big new oilfields such as the Atlantic to the west of Shetland, or technically difficult fields would continue to attract the multinationals.
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Then up comes a great jewfish, which is just as likely to weigh five hundred pounds as fifty, and to be as large as a good-sized Shetland pony, and he makes a lunge for your bait, and --
Around the World in Ten Days
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Residents on Foula in the Shetland Isles still mark the holidays according to the Julian calendar, with Yule on January 6 and Newerday seven days later.
Times, Sunday Times
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Young saithe, where available, are highly esteemed, e.g. ‘breaded’ with oatmeal and fried, as in Shetland.
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On the other side of the village is the Exmoor Falconry and Animal Farm, which not only keeps birds of prey and Shetland ponies but also has meerkats, a couple of kookaburras, and a llama.
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Visitors were treated to displays of equestrianism, ranging from show-jumping to a Shetland Pony Grand National, livestock, pole-climbing and even terrier racing.
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Then the treasure trove panel awarded the stone to Shetland, so it came to our local museum, which is where it would have come anyway.
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I might dress in a wensleydale jumper with jeans for casual wear, or a shetland skirt for meetings.
Times, Sunday Times
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The women who volunteer at the Dumptique, it is assumed, take the crème de la crème for themselves, but you'd be amazed at what they leave for the rest of us -- Shetland sweaters, tennis toggery, real cast iron skillets.
Jenny Allen: Take My House, Please
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Ever since the Kalmar Union of the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden – reaching to Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Shetland and Orkney – collapsed in 1523, the idea of reinstating some sort of a supra-national Nordic state regularly crops up.
Is a federal Nordic state on the cards?
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`Nurse Magnusson is a Shetlander ," the Bo'sun said, as if that explained everything.
SAN ANDREAS
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Unfortunately a flu bug attacked most of the crew during this week which clouded our impressions of Shetland.
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Kingston mistakenly believes that they speak Erse on Shetland, which is not the case: Erse is spoken in Ireland, being similar to the Gaelic spoken in parts of
Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor
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Shetland is an ideal place to storm watch.
Times, Sunday Times
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The company also operates a 110-mile, 36-inch pipeline connecting the Ninnian system to the Sullom Voe oil terminal on Shetland Island.
Energy profile of the United Kingdom
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Expedition Cruises (expeditioncruises. com) takes passengers to see a research station at King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, swim in the geothermally heated waters at Deception Island, set foot on Antarctica's Paradise Bay peninsula and watch penguins in their natural habitat -- all in five-star luxury.
Travel:The Icy Final Frontier
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Orkney Islands Councillors have agreed to a further £200,000 towards the cost of a submarine fibre optic cable from the Scottish mainland via Orkney to Shetland.
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The broken tanker has leaked thousands of tonnes of crude oil and threatens to destroy the wildlife paradise of the Shetlands.
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Of course Shetland is beautiful in a (very) windswept way.
No more wild stereotypes about Shetland
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Shetland has a small population, but this has not distorted the typicality of the figures.
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Read in studio Hurricane force winds are hampering efforts to save seals caught in the Shetland oil slick.
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Grimond was adopted as candidate for Orkney and Shetland, having only seen the cliffs of Hoy while in Caithness on a grouse shoot.
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Until now, they have been using the existing linkspan at Kirkwall Pier for their Orkney-Aberdeen-Shetland service.
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In terms of the features which are used to assess class most Shetlanders seem to recognise that they lag behind.
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Unfortunately a flu bug attacked most of the crew during this week which clouded our impressions of Shetland.
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Among the most ardent of these believers is Graham Stewart, the chief executive of Aberdeen-based Faroe Petroleum - a listed oil minnow with a sizeable exposure to the west of Shetland region in both UK and Faroese waters.
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But a future without complicated Shetland lace is bleak.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Draght horses; carriege horses; riding horses; racing horses; ponyies; percheron from france; Belgain from Beljium; shire clyesdale and saffold punch from great Britain; french coach and German coach; contucky saddle horses; through-breads; Shetland ponies; mushstand ponies; pacers and pintoes.
The Prairie Child
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Not a dozen feet away another Shetland, a coal-black one, was behaving as peculiarly as it was being treated.
CHAPTER XXV
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Also known as the Goose-beaked whale, this creature is found as far north as the Shetland Islands and as south as Tierra Del Fuego at the tip of South America.
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Since there are no rivers in Shetland, there is very little fresh water run-off in the voes (small fjords), and the chances of farmed salmon escaping up the rivers are negligible.
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The Vikings left an indelible mark on the mores and traditions of Shetlanders as well as on their psyche.
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The deal includes Exxon Mobil's nonoperated interests in the Maclure, Scott and Telford fields and the Benbecula exploration acreage west of the Shetland Islands.
Exxon Sells U.K. North Sea Assets to Apache
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Hundreds of stargazers had travelled as far north as Orkney and Shetland to witness the spectacular celestial event, but most were thwarted by clouds which obscured the rare phenomenon.
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In fact, Dunrossness has long been considered to be the most fertile and agriculturally productive area in the whole of Shetland.
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They were pictured chatting about the benefits of organic food in a food hall resplendent with purple calabash tomatoes, butternut chutney and smoked salmon from the Shetland Islands packaged in wrappers adorned with hearts.
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Major changes to drilling regulations could have a significant impact on the U.K. because its main deep-water area, west of the Shetland Islands, is thought to be home to the bulk of the country's undeveloped oil and gas resources.
U.K. Panel Questions Readiness to Fix Spill
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Many of the largest remaining untapped deposits lie in a remote area to the west of the Shetland Islands.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many of the largest remaining untapped deposits lie in a remote area to the west of the Shetland Islands.
Times, Sunday Times
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From there the ship takes a seven-day cruise to the Shetland Islands before returning to Oban.
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We therefore investigated the allelic variations of the DRD4 gene in the beagle and Shetland sheepdog, as well as in the golden retriever and shiba.
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At present, several companies are seeking to explore areas near the Shetland Islands and in Greenland where their wells would be in far deeper water than normal, and potentially in environmentally sensitive areas.
EU crackdown on oil firms will not extend to overseas operations
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And it has the appearance of Shetland wool because it is flecked with white yarns.
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Walruses were commonly encountered in the Shetland Islands until quite recently.
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This shot of a puffin was taken at Sumburgh Head in the Shetland Isles, where these colorful little birds can be seen in great numbers in the summertime.
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A Western Isles man has been appointed detective inspector for Orkney, Shetland, Caithness and Sutherland.
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They looked as though they would have to abandon their attempt earlier this week because of the lack of a ferry connection from Orkney to Shetland.
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My first equine love was a Shetland gelding, but the schoolie mounts I bonded with the best with one exception and he was superb–exquisitely sensitive Arab gelding were all mares.
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Meanwhile, the situation in the marine environment around Shetland is changing.
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He had come to discuss the Big One, the euro, which could become legal tender everywhere from the Shetlands to Sardinia, subsuming the pound, the Deutschmark, the franc and other EU currencies.
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Reuters Activists tried to stop a Chevron ship in the North Sea, about 160 kilometers north of the Shetland Islands, in September.
U.K. Panel Questions Readiness to Fix Spill
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Many of the largest remaining untapped deposits lie in a remote area to the west of the Shetland Islands.
Times, Sunday Times
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Orkney and Shetland had been added to certain royal donations, by a marriage with an heiress of the sirname of Speire.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
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The Russians all think East Siberia has even more oil than West Siberia; everyone in the North Sea, which is running out, is convinced there is even more to be found west of Shetland … no doubt when the time comes, they will be given the budget to go find it, and to work out how to get it to market.
Von Storch at Boulder « Climate Audit
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If you are stabling Shetlands rather than warmbloods you can get by with a smaller stall.
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The diocese contained the archdeaconries of Orkney, with thirty-five parishes, and of Tingwall (Shetland) with thirteen.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
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Many storms have lashed the Northern Isles since udal law was introduced to Orkney and Shetland, yet still it endures, defining the boundaries of farms that have remained in the same family for a millennium or more.
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Shetland wool is so fine it can be spun as thin as a strand of silk.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many of the largest remaining untapped deposits lie in a remote area to the west of the Shetland Islands.
Times, Sunday Times
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The arms, suddenly nerveless, dropped me, and the Shetland sweater retreated smartly.
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The Shetlanders are an island race.
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Lonely Planet said Shetland is "pristine, wild and untamed" which is a dull sort of description, especially given that it has a bloody great oil refinery, with the fabulous name of Sullom Voe and which makes its council among the richest in the UK.
Lonely Planet should have looked at Orkney as well as Shetland
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Some nouns contain the Old Norse suffixed definite article (i)nn: croopan trunk of the body, fyandin the devil, knorin boat, and the Shetland sea-terms birten fire, hestin horse, monen moon, and sulin sun.
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From Shetland to the southern end of the Hebrides, the coastline was dotted with circular, tower-like structures, now referred to as brochs.
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Police last week said they had arrested a man they identified at that point only as Topiary at his home in the Shetland Islands in connection with Anonymous and LulzSec, or Lulz Security.
'Anonymous' Probe Nets Teenager in Britain
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The area to the West of the Shetland Islands is the last major area of the UK Continental Shelf to be developed and infrastructure will be critical to fully unlocking the gas potential of the region.
New Statesman
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At last in 1150 Ragnvald's and Eindridi's ships are "boun" [24] for their eastern cruise, Eindridi, however, being wrecked off Shetland.
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
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And that might have been the start of my career on ice if not for a certain dapple gray Arabian horse-cross Shetland pony named Shadow no relation to my cat.
Welcome to My World
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The passenger and freight vessel will leave Shetland at 11am on Saturday, arriving at Bergen at midnight.
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hiya i have brought 6 new pups YAY!! they are a male german shepard, a k. charles female and a shetland male+ a male husky, a jack russell female and a beagle. they are all very hyper cute and very very playful lol
Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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Mr Fairbairn, 51, will take 27 days to journey from Bishop Rock on the Isles of Scilly in the South West, to the lighthouse at Muckle Flugga in Shetland, which is set on the most northerly rock in the British Isles.
Undefined
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The overcast and drizzly weather stretched all the way from Hadrian's Wall to the Shetland Islands, making Scots reach for their umbrellas and cardies rather than parasols and bikinis.
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He seems bemused by his new surroundings goats, geese, Shetland ponies and a variety of other animals.
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He even beats the MP for Orkney and Shetland, Alistair Carmichael, who has to travel by plane between different islands and has the furthest distance to travel to Westminster.
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But the real star of the show is the rugged Shetland landscape.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the real star of the show is the rugged Shetland landscape.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are situated in the middle of a beautiful 100-acre country estate, which has been extensively replanted with forest and can be explored on foot or in Shetland pony-drawn carriages.
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En cent pour cent shetland traité “supersoft”, Il allie a merveille chaleur et douceur, et me fait bénéficier de la qualité “Donegal-Tweed”, un fil tricoté dans la plus pure tradition irlandaise.
Pro-Consumerist Poet #2 : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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But there are no chinos, cotton shirts or Shetland sweaters here.
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Shetland is an ideal place to storm watch.
Times, Sunday Times
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When they rowed to shore a certain Shetland man stood there.
Viking Tales
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Like the Shetland pony, the Sheltie was bred with a thick coat to protect them from the harsh climate.
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The Russians all think East Siberia has even more oil than West Siberia; everyone in the North Sea, which is running out, is convinced there is even more to be found west of Shetland … no doubt when the time comes, they will be given the budget to go find it, and to work out how to get it to market.
Von Storch at Boulder « Climate Audit
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Each shetland produces enough wool for, say, one skirt or a jacket, and a wensleydale up to three sweaters.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was transferred to the 413th Squadron which was then based up in Shetland, in December of 1941.
The Japanese Ceylon Attack
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The mutant strain appeared in the south of Shetland, just as the council approved the scheme for another year.
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Whether they are stirred in with a wooden spoon or, as Mitchell advises, with a spurtle or a gruel-tree Shetland usage is probably optional, but the addition of cream or milk – never sugar – completes a winter experience that can only be described as truly halesome.
In praise of … porridge | Editorial
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I might dress in a wensleydale jumper with jeans for casual wear, or a shetland skirt for meetings.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no reason to refute this argument: undoubtedly this is a sentiment seemingly shared by many Shetlanders.
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Last week, a pilot whale died after getting stuck in the Sullom Voe inlet in Shetland.
Stranded whales swim back into danger
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Shetland Coastguard and Orkney Harbours are broadcasting warnings to all shipping in the area.
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Long, long ago the people in Shetland and Orkney called them the seal people, the selkies, and even now, in this year of our Lady one thousand and ten, you still sometimes heard the ancient name.
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These waves are also hurling boulders as much as 50 metres back from cliff edges in Orkney and Shetland.
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Oil slick prompts no-fishing zone Fishermen have introduced a voluntary ban on fishing in the area surrounding the Shetland oil slick.
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However, in the tiny political pond of Shetland, important issues can be affected by seemingly trivial considerations.
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Not just a gentle nibble as our Shetland sheep do lower down, but a strip of bark half an inch deep.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Shetland the situation is a bit confused by the migration of birds from other, usually more northerly areas.
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Last Friday the campaign group lost a case brought by Chevron, forcing its activists to abandon a direct action against the Stena Carron drillship that was being prepared for operations off the Shetlands.
Shetland deepwater wells likely to be approved in face of Greenpeace action
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Oil slick prompts no-fishing zone Fishermen have introduced a voluntary ban on fishing in the area surrounding the Shetland oil slick.
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She now has more than 80 sheep, including Wensleydales, Romneys, New Zealand Corriedale, Corriedale-cross-Shetland, LLanwenog from the Welsh borders and Jacob-cross-Polworth, from Scotland.
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The fine collection offers tweeds, woollen ties and Shetland hand knits.
Times, Sunday Times
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It lies halfway between Orkney and Shetland on an imaginary line dividing the North Sea from the North Atlantic.
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There are 17,725 crofts and more than 33,000 people living in crofting households concentrated on the western seaboard of the Highland mainland, the Western Isles, Shetland, Skye and the Inner Hebrides.
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Shetland wool is so fine it can be spun as thin as a strand of silk.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unfortunately a flu bug attacked most of the crew during this week which clouded our impressions of Shetland.
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I'm afraid your ignorance of Skye, John O'Groats, Orkney and Shetland is matched by mine of Argyll so not sure what will happen down there.
Highlands and Islands Region
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The Shetlanders are an island race.
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By contrast archaeological and onomastic evidence in Orkney, Shetland, the Hebrides, together with the Isle of Man, points to heavy Norwegian settlement from the early 9th cent.
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In addition, there are several island groups offshore, notably the Hebrides, Shetland, and Orkney Islands.
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For photographing sea birds, Shetland is a paradise.
Hanging About For the Perfect Photograph | Impact Lab
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However, in the tiny political pond of Shetland, important issues can be affected by seemingly trivial considerations.
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Their chopper got into difficulties as it came in to land just off the Shetland Islands on Friday evening.
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Residents on Foula in the Shetland Isles still mark the holidays according to the Julian calendar, with Yule on January 6 and Newerday seven days later.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hope was what I found on this trip to the Shetlands, with all their voes and woes.
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He would bring in these elaborate sweaters with Shetland ponies on the front, and I would run my fingers over his yarn skeins and he would explain how difficult but rewarding knitting was.
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Shetland is the most irreligious place in the UK.
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So it's sort of about Shetland, and it's sort of about Simon and his family and their time in Shetland.
The Guardian World News
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A Shetland pony she cared for on a horse ranch was part of the procession to the cemetery.
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It's only on paper that Shetland is part of Scotland at all - the scatter of half-empty green islands is just as close to Norway.
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It not only gives you very beautiful pictures of Shetland but it gets down to the life of the crofters and fishermen, and brings the naturalness of it.
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Thus Thoroughbreds, Arabians, Shetlands, and so on, will prefer as a companion a member of their own breed.
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The Shetland Islands are the most northerly county of the
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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LONDON— BP PLC affirmed its commitment to the U.K. North Sea Wednesday with a plan to invest £3 billion $4.77 billion redeveloping two fields west of the Shetland Islands, despite a recent increase in the tax levied on oil and gas production in the country.
BP to Invest Billions in North Sea
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The Shetlands are famed for their colonies of sea birds.
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Many of the largest remaining untapped deposits lie in a remote area to the west of the Shetland Islands.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many of the largest remaining untapped deposits lie in a remote area to the west of the Shetland Islands.
Times, Sunday Times
