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Значения термина taper away на английском

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Использование термина taper away на английском
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However, reviews on the present portfolio taper away after that.
The Irish Times
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The allowance could taper away as income rises.
The Guardian
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Claw Cape, bent in the form of a yataghan, tapered away nearly four miles to the southeast.
The Mysterious Island
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The sound of falling stone tapered away.
The Lair of Bones
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Between the thick cords were dark anfractuous clefts five times his height, tapering away to knife-thin fissures.
The Reality Dysfunction
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His legs tapered away below his knees, and, like a lot of spirits, he had no feet.
The Magician
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The light of the lantern showed a lofty cavern tapering away to a point at its remote end, pear-fashion.
The Hand of Fu-Manchu / Being a New Phase in the Activities of F...
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A dust column which had plumed up from the site of the cave-in was tapering away on the breeze.
A Canticle For Leibowitz
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Ms Rush said costs had risen the least in Christchurch, as the house rebuilding after the 2011 earthquake tapered away.
Radio NZ
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The southern extremity of the ice field tapered away into a long narrow spit which projected out into the sea.
The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales
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Owen scored 222 goals in 482 games, a fine record that tapered away with injuries.
The Guardian
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The Great Plateau tapers away towards the south, terminating in the Valley of Mexico, bounded by the snowy Cordillera of Anahuac.
Mexico / Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political...
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The smallest, where the spine tapers away into the tail, is only two inches in width, and looks something like a white billiard-ball.
Moby Dick
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The rest of the body had an ovoid cross-section that gradually tapered away towards the base, though there was no sign of any tail.
The Naked God
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The muffled sunlight gleamed like gold tissue through grey gauze, and the beech alleys tapered away to a blue haze blent of sky and forest.
The Reef
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In 1798 the western end of that ground tapered away into mud and river silt, upon which the rebel dead were dumped and covered over.
The Irish Times