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are overfilled
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To fill beyond capacity or beyond what is appropriate.
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The drains just cannot cope with the water that's coming down from the mountains – they are overfilled with sludge," she said, before adding that Funchal was like a "ghost town".
This observation suggests that in the inner Gaoping Slope west of the Gaoping Submarine Canyon, sediment deposition rate is higher than the basin subsidence rate, the topography of the upper slope domain there is "healed", and most sediments are overfilled in the slope basins now.
Before entering the interferometer, the beam is expanded to 11 mm (1/ e width) by the beam expander, so that the objective pupils are overfilled by a factor of 1.22 for the 20×/0.5 objective and 1.92 for the 63×/0.9 objective.
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(And yes, they were overfilled, but that was a good thing).
This Christmas its tiny stage is overfilled with colorful sets for this classic Johann Strauss Viennese operetta.
This year its tiny stage is overfilled with colorful sets for Johann Strauss's classic Viennese operetta.
This Christmastide, its tiny stage is overfilled with colorful sets for Johann Strauss's classic Viennese operetta.
At this moment faith is essential; should the moulds be overfilled, the mixture will spread sideways; the result will be a failure.
The gate was overfilled with noisy families returning from vacation, and an announcement asked for volunteers to give up their seats.
Beyond the Key lime pie, there was a banana cream variety so fresh that the bananas were still the same off-white hue as the rest of the filling; a Jersey blueberry bread pudding that, true to its name, was more pudding than cake, and a blueberry pie that, despite its two-crust construction, was overfilled with berries, throwing the ratio off.
The Buncefield incident occurred when a terminal tank was overfilled releasing hydrocarbons through its conservation vents.
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