They also suggest that the recent excess in the Dounreay-Thurso area is due to population mixing linked to the oil industry, promoted by certain unusual local demographic factors.

Among the rural areas with a high proportion of oil workers is the Dounreay-Thurso area, where a recent excess of childhood leukaemia is well known.

We were lodged at the house of a famous warrior named Poino, whose recent excesses in drinking the ava had nearly cost him his life.

This article tells about the recent excesses with the protection of the alien population.

However, I'm afraid your recent excesses have resulted in your tenure at this firm coming to an end.

And scientists are beginning to identify and measure a number of negative results from what they say is a relatively recent excess of nitrogen, an excess that is still growing.

The recent excesses of the financial world inevitably invite comparisons with the 1930s, when share prices fell by two-thirds in the five years following the Great Crash of 1929.

They also suggest that the recent excess in the Dounreay-Thurso area is due to population mixing linked to the oil industry.

Tacky little thing that I am, I paused to check for evidence of recent sexual excess but found none.

On the contrary, in the recent excesses and "bubbles" of international capital, financial markets and the New Economy, this intelligence has proved to be not all that far reaching.