• The plans for the new station are in course of preparation, but nothing definite has been decided in this connection pending the formation of the new terminal company.
• When this judgment was in course of preparation counsel drew my attention to three additional cases.
• It is prohibited to burn vegetation between the 1st of March and the 31st of August growing on any land which is at the time not cultivated or not in course of cultivation for agriculture or forestry.

• A series of political crises in the course of this period mark the decay of the old bourgeois-democratic framework.
• Only gradually in the course of this period were polities defined in clear terms of territory and explicit geographical sensibility.
• Two years passed and I hadn't seen the boy more than five times in the course of that period.

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