Agriculture

Simple Past

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1.     By then she had a new neighbour: the Yaqui Valley Experiment Station, a grand agricultural research centre with impressive stone pillars, and cleverly designed irrigation canals.

2.     "It often appeared to me that I had made a dreadful mistake in accepting the position in Mexico," he confessed in the epilogue to his book, Norman Borlaug on World Hunger.

3.     That meant no machinery, and no help to make the place habitable. But he left his wife Margaret and their daughter Jeanie behind in Mexico City, and went anyway.

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1.     In each case, the emergency services were called after someone was overcome by fumes.

2.     Last week, a farmer from Fermanagh collapsed and lost consciousness. He was saved by another farm worker who saw what happened.

3.     One death was caused by a fall or falling objects and the final death was the result of an unspecified incident.

Simple Continous

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1.     Farm safety inspector Malcolm Downey said this was concerning.

2.     Projects were able to apply for funding to establish small businesses, to invest in village renewal, health and leisure facilities and rural broadband.

3.     A few years ago, Ansah-Amprofi was working in immigration law, when he discovered in a local market that the onion he was buying had been imported from Holland.

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1.     Plans for the relocation have generated a backlash from employees who have been fearful about their jobs were being moved and who have speculated that the Trump administration is trying to stifle research that at times has clashed with its political agenda.

2.     California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) “has done what the Trump administration has refused to do: protect children, farmworkers and millions of others from were being exposed to this neurotoxic pesticide,” Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, says in a statement, according to The Washington Post

3.     Public perception  of genetically engineered (GE) crops was being manipulated by organizations that purport to represent the interests of consumers and the environment.

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Simple past

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1.     My dad never had to eat supper alone, a gesture that is silent, but speaks volumes.

Past Continous

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1.     When I was growing up, our cousins from the big city would come for long weekends. Farm life was a novelty to them.