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Mud became so deep that horses could sink up to their chests.
The project would also cause groundwater to sink up to an estimated 40 metres in some places.
Now, Mr Li said, it will allow such investors to sink up to 20 billion of offshore yuan into China's stockmarket too.
"It's deceptive, because it looks lush, and there's a lot of vegetation there and you drive onto it and you sink up to your doors in sand.
"Take a wrong step in the rough and you can sink up to your ankle in mud," said Rich Santucci, the club's assistant golf pro.
In the next 20 years, if Venice and its immediate surroundings subsided at the current rate, researchers would expect the land to sink up to 80mm relative to the sea.
Parts of the city sank up to a metre, in turn prompting widespread winter flooding.
She pictured her son sinking up to his neck in the reddish bog water.
It rained incessantly and the car sunk up to its axles in mud.
After boycotts of Japanese goods by Chinese buyers, some Japanese companies, especially carmakers, report sales sinking up to 40 percent.
His ballerinas, sunk up to their waists on their bowl-like bases, tilt and turn but have nowhere to go.
