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  • There was so much money to be made that drug gangs rapidly expanded their ranks, sucking in some of our best friends, and turf wars became deadly, aided by the influx of sophisticated firearms.†  (source)
  • Whoever usually kept this place ready must not have been prepared for the influx the Selection would cause, because there weren't nearly enough chairs in here.†  (source)
  • For better and worse, over the past two decades the economy and culture of the Khumbu has become increasingly and irrevocably tied to the seasonal influx of trekkers and climbers, some 15,000 of whom visit the region annually.†  (source)
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  • Similarly a good part of the Hills found itself swept away with the massive land deals and influx of investments during the 1970s and 1980s.†  (source)
  • For our continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed by our thoughts, which are indeed the representatives of all our past feelings;†  (source)
  • Inside Amity Harbor's courthouse, opposite the courtroom's four tall windows, a table had been set up to accommodate the influx of newspapermen to the island.†  (source)
  • Mike and I took turns mowing all the abandoned foreclosed properties in the complex—heavy rains in the spring had turned yards into jungles, which encouraged an influx of raccoons.†  (source)
  • Atlanta was again the center of activities for a wide region, as it had been before its destruction, and the town was receiving a great influx of new citizens, both welcome and unwelcome.†  (source)
  • The red-room was a square chamber, very seldom slept in, I might say never, indeed, unless when a chance influx of visitors at Gateshead Hall rendered it necessary to turn to account all the accommodation it contained: yet it was one of the largest and stateliest chambers in the mansion.†  (source)
  • Have these precautions been put in place because of the recent influx of immigrants?†  (source)
  • The summer influx of tourists and vacationers had begun.†  (source)
  • The companies did not encourage the women to come—they did not want an influx of poor colored settlers in those towns—but the women came anyway and took jobs as domestics and farm helpers in the towns, and lived wherever housing was free or dirt cheap.†  (source)
  • It is the month of vacations and the influx of tourists, and when the sun attains its full glory but not its greatest heat.†  (source)
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