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For Mrs. Comstock had spent no time on compounding interest, and never added the sums she had been depositing through nearly twenty years.

From A Girl of the Limberlost by Stratton-Porter, Gene

It was evident that these oven-looking mounds had been formed by the water itself, which had been depositing the sediment that formed them for many, many years.

From The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne