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But by the mid-'60s, with the New York scene "picked over" by rival labels, Mr. Holzman said, he began looking to Los Angeles and rock.

Labour will move Jeremy Corbyn's speech as party leader to the final day of its conference to avoid it being "picked over" by what is perceived as an increasingly hostile media, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.

Every line of his plans will be picked over by legislators.

In fact, that value has been picked over by the early birds.

Mies has been much picked over by critics searching for flaws.

"Sometimes it gets picked over by the end of the week".

The convoy crept by a smoldering junkyard being picked over by Iraqis.

The cost of the executions is being picked over by local press.

In about a year, green, cutting-edge Reppie will replace a vast rubbish dump picked over by hundreds of scavengers.

A shopkeeper told me that captured pirates used to be strapped to wooden posts, their bodies picked over by birds.

The exhibition was added to as the Airborne collected further Goring loot, which was now being picked over by Berchtesgaden peasants and the Army.