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And, somehow, my savings, carefully built up over the years, were starting to run dry. BNC

Presumably the well of fast bowlers will one day run dry and then West Indies will have to devise a new strategy; after all, India did not fare too badly in the 1960s and '70s with a quartet of spinners. BCN

Clearly the native resources of scientific talent and ingenuity had not run dry, for all the disappointment caused by the failures of the;science and government'; campaigns of the early 1960s. BCN

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