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Eventually the extraction of saltpeter ceased due to its cost inefficiency and the administrator's inability to retain sufficient labor.
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The unintended consequence of the new sewer system was to eliminate cholera not only in places that no longer stank, but wherever water supplies ceased to be contaminated by sewage.
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By special dispensation, some analog television signals ceased on the original date.
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Eventually, this practice ceased to exist after anger over government subsidization of agriculture.
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As does a child, a pagan or a mystic, he glorified nature and never ceased to regard it with eyes of wonder.
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The BSE finally ceased operations in the early 1970s.
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His convivial habits having led him into irregularities peculiarly inconsistent with his profession, his connection with this congregation ceased about 1783.
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Due to increasing air pollution and research priorities switching back to night-time astronomy, scientific observations of the sun were ceased in the 1980s.
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When the railroad ceased using electric locomotives in 1972, the catenary was removed, the supports were kept in place.
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Both sides ceased fire, and soon negotiated an honourable surrender.
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