When it came out in 1986 another fashion was at its height : it was thespringtideof the stimulation model of reminiscence.
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So that, if these three wheels go, wealth willflowas in aspringtide.
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The collections were done at low neap tide and then repeated at lowspringtide.
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It is all very well to talk about thespringtide.
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It was aspringtide, severe but not outstandingly so.
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But bad weather, particularly if it coincided with a highspringtide, might set the programme back many weeks.
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We all know what the ordinary high water mark of an ordinary tide is; but who is to say what the ordinaryspringtideis?
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We had at the outside 3 feet of water on the bar at low-waterspringtide.
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Aspringtideis a different thing altogether.
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You have a rise of 25 feet atspringtidein three hours.
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Ships drawing more than 12 feet, or 14 feet at the highestspringtide, cannot pass up the river.
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Are these the limits of neap tide orspringtidelines, because in certain areas there is a considerable difference between the two?
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There is a depth of water of 28 feet at low waterspringtide, and over 50 feet when the tide is on the flow.
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Whether it is aspringtidewe shall not know until it reaches the flood which is yet some way ahead of us.
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No one seemed to know where the tide started and where it stopped or about high tide,springtideand any other tide.
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