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About two dozen women qualified as attorneys by the end of the decade.
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[295] Burns's Lines to a Mouse: "a daimen-icker in a thrave," that is, an ear of corn out of two dozen sheaves.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
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A recent such program drew about two dozen pilots of high-performance and turbocharged Mooneys for a weekend in Washington, D.C. Some of the airplanes this group flies - all unpressurized - have service ceilings as high as 28,000 feet.
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But some two dozen states collect delinquent taxes on property by holding lien certificate auctions.
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Mostly they analyze data from seismometers deployed around the globe, as well as data from the two dozen satellites that make up the Global Positioning System.
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In all, more than two dozen tilt stations, GPS stations and seismometers will cover the Three Sisters area if the mission goes as planned.
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Some of the largest pieces are currently on exhibit, including a large candelabrum that holds more than two dozen candles and two large oil parlor lamps made of silver.
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In a tiny backyard, they find two dozen chickens, five children and one Afghan war widow.
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People appeared as tiny black dots in the grainy, blurred footage, and there seem to be about two dozen in the alley, although it is difficult to determine the exact number.
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Consider this brain buster: You go to a discount warehouse and buy two dozen frozen bagels for, say, $9.60.
Confirmed: Shopping At Wal-Mart, Costco Doesn’t Save You Money | Disinformation
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Not only were these people swimming with about two dozen manatees, but they were also rubbing the manatees' bellies and backs.
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The three areas have over two dozen ski lifts, mostly chairlifts and gondolas, serving a multitude of trails and runs from the valley floor to open slopes above treeline.
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About two dozen teenage supporters were heard chanting and shouting abusive language throughout the first half.
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Casino guests can also experience about two dozen restaurants, pubs, confectioneries and other shops in the Greektown neighborhood and nearby Harmonie Park.
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The two dozen participants started off by identifying “what’s wrong with the media,” and the blackboard is filled with complaints ranging from the lack of in-depth analysis and foreign news coverage to story repetition and reinforcement of stereotypes.
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[295] Burns's Lines to a Mouse: "a daimen-icker in a thrave," that is, an ear of corn out of two dozen sheaves.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
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We did bag some fat ringed perch, nearly two dozen slab-sized crappies, and a similar number of northern pike.
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Both had poor ratings in a crowded marketplace, with almost two dozen syndicated talk shows scrapping for viewers every day.
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As Euronews reports, two dozen environmental protesters have been arrested in Iran's East Azerbaijan Province in recent days, following demonstrations sparked by the failure of Iran's Parliament to adopt measures to stem the gradual drying and disappearance of Lake Orumieh, which is known as Lake Urmia to the local Azeri population.
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That was when two dozen brokers met under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street where they had been trading securities outdoors to form what became the NYSE.
Exporting Wall Street
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When I opened the door, I saw that the light was cast by the flickering flames of some two dozen small butter lamps burning at the base of a painting of a multiarmed Krishna.
Hi-Ya!
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Where the caravan guards had got to he did not know, but the men now riding into the commons from both north and south were no raggle-taggle bunch but two dozen men armed with bows, spears, and swords and dressed in good silk.
Spirit Gate
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She is also a noted children's author, who has written two dozen books for children.
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Half an hour later, I left laden with gammon steaks, beefburgers, bacon, a side of beef, poultry, a bag of aubergines and two dozen eggs - all from local producers.
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Large churches might have several chantries, cathedrals up to two dozen.
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After what feels like two dozen weeks of auditions, Randy, Steven and Weepy McLopez made their "final judgment" as Seacrest boomingly kept calling the ep, like God crossed with Guy Smiley and unleashed on the world American Idol Season 10's Top 24...
Watercooler: American Idol's Top 24… Have At 'Em!
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During the past year, we have included more than two dozen additional commercial geostationary communications satellites that have been ordered or planned by companies such as Intelsat and SES Global.
NASASpaceFlight.com
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In the midst of the lush, steaming jungle of Bali, Green School has two dozen buildings made of giant bamboo poles.
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Keep a jar of almonds in a desk drawer and have two dozen nuts and a small piece of fruit instead of a candy bar when an afternoon slump hits.
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Police confirmed that nine people were dead with more than two dozen missing.
Times, Sunday Times
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These include about two dozen index features, such as base construction and the method of attaching backboards and drawer runners, in addition to idiosyncrasies of design and decoration.
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The various other families of aculeate _Hymenoptera_ are doubtless more abundant than the species recorded indicate, and it may be safely reckoned that the parasitic _Hymenoptera_ in Ceylon far exceed one thousand species in number, though they are yet only known by means of about two dozen kinds collected at Kandy by Mr. Thwaites.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
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The resort offers packages with more than two dozen golf courses in the area.
Times, Sunday Times
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The station was equipped with a phonograph and two dozen records, as well as plenty of books and games.
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Visiting Warrior Mark Steyn drew a rapt crowd of, well, two dozen, as he addressed an Ontario government legislative committee, calling the head of the Ontario Human Rights Commission a "commissar" and predicting terrorist violence if rights commissions persist:
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The complete book of floorcloths : designs & techniques for painting great-looking canvas rugs / Kathy Cooper —Two dozen different methods for creating and embellishing a design; eight projects ranging from geometric patterns to freeform squiggles; 63 artists showing off a glorious range of contemporary work: and dozens of luscious pictures: in short, it's the home decorator's dream guide to making the perfect floorcloth.
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Fewer than two dozen large, politically powerful companies control delivery of most of the news and information we receive.
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And in a box in my study, about two dozen offprint copies of my article in Anglo-Saxon England sit undisturbed, and un-asked for. posted by Dr. Richard Scott Nokes at 1: 38 PM
Non-academic perspectives
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One of the editions was broadcast in two dozen parts on national public radio.
Times, Sunday Times
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But some two dozen states collect delinquent taxes on property by holding lien certificate auctions.
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His show's roughly two dozen pieces offered up his standard menu of hectic and deliberately crude brushwork on ratty-looking unstretched canvases.
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To make her burst faster off the blocks, Privalova tosses a 120-pound barbell over her head two dozen times a day.
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The number of deaths has risen to more than two dozen.
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Police confirmed that nine people were dead with more than two dozen missing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The resort offers packages with more than two dozen golf courses in the area.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the end, it was estimated that there were fewer than two dozen radio towers in operation and calls had slowed to a trickle.
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A small rain squall has just passed over two dozen yachts anchored there, and sunlight is beginning to sweep in behind it.
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In the midst of the lush, steaming jungle of Bali, Green School has two dozen buildings made of giant bamboo poles.
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He found two dozen eggs that morning and one hen that was broody and wouldn't let him near her nest without threatening to peck him.
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As Caspersen ushers the employee out the door, two of her coworkers circle a custom-made round table, sniffing, sipping, and spitting coffee from some two dozen samples.
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Just imagine two dozen toddlers beavering away in a big, busy room: the only way to avoid utter chaos is by establishing and enforcing clear rules about sharing, non-violence, cooperation, and respect.
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The capacity audience was racially and generationally mixed, as were the two dozen members of the band.
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Mr Clouter said three helicopters and a hovercraft then arrived on the scene, along with some two dozen police officers.
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This new recording features two dozen carols brought together to create a concert performance.
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This means that for a guinea you could feed two dozen trenchermen on BSE-free beef, and still have enough left over to fill a couple of capacious doggy-bags.
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Nearly two dozen displaced Kashmiri Pandit tonsured their heads in New Delhi.www. scoopnews.in
Kashmiri Pandits observe September 14 as their Martyr���s Day after their exodus from their origin
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The title of this improbable vade mecum — a sternly selective, mostly chronological survey of some two dozen canonical philosophers and their core precepts — is a fair question (even if bathetically asked).
Cover to Cover
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Taraf also released what it described as the transcript of recordings of a March 2003 meeting at Istanbul's Selimiye barracks attended by more than 160 officers, including two dozen generals.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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Run up two dozen stairs or more without being breathless at the top.
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Since then, Davis has gathered hundreds of court records and the sworn testimony of two dozen witnesses.
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My hubby is sceptical about my insistence that we need the two dozen muslins I've bought.
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On Oct. 2, Anderson was one of nearly two dozen alleged gang members arrested during an early morning raid.
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The lawsuit concerns some two dozen songs, for which the label allegedly has not paid royalties to artists for their use in compilations and as ringtones.
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His energetic film sports well over two dozen interviews with spokesmen from the industry and performers.
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The bank is facing up to two dozen lawsuits from investors who claim they lost money by following its investment advice.
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I want to show my support for protecting bargaining rights, said Mentzel, who worked the second shift Friday night and arrived Saturday morning with about two dozen other Oshkosh Correctional workers who carpooled together today.
Off-duty cops join protests in Wisconsin
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“You could buy and sell these … floozies … two dozen times over.”
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due
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They found these blue and gray nylon fibers in Westerfield's home and two dozen of them in and around her body.
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The tracks are 28-ton personnel carriers that can carry two dozen Marines, including the three-man crew.
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Having begun its corrupt debauchment of conurbations worldwide by sleazing up New York (kind of a gimme), this rampant rendezvous of ravishment has moved on to purvey its own sordid brand of pastel-smudged skullduggery in the artistic communities of more than two dozen cities.
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art Show, NYC « Skid Roche
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Through the glass door to the step outside, two dozen yellowhammers and sparrows picked up seeds thrown on the snowy concrete.
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More than two dozen electric and steam locomotives along with hundreds of dump cars were required to remove about 37 million cubic yards of material.
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There were two dozen waste transfer stations on this little peninsula alone, and half of all its putrescible garbage and most of its sewage sludge ended up there.
The Black Angel
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There are two dozen species of birds, many of which winter in Europe, mammals such as polar bears and lemmings and many species of insects and plants.
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Half an hour later, I left laden with gammon steaks, beefburgers, bacon, a side of beef, poultry, a bag of aubergines and two dozen eggs - all from local producers.
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You'll be amazed at the fruit sold from boats; there are two dozen varieties of banana alone, and if you don't know what a starfruit, pomelo or zirzat is, this is your chance to find out - your tastebuds will thank you for it.
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Another two dozen barristers and solicitors, chosen for their expertise in commercial law, also earned substantial fees in a case which became known in the inns of court as a beanfeast.
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The investigations sparked dozens of arrests and two dozen guilty pleas from hedge fund managers, executives and industry consultants.
Times, Sunday Times
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Down on the floor of the exchange are phalanxes of desks, where some two dozen brokers ply their trade.
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Police confirmed that nine people were dead with more than two dozen missing.
Times, Sunday Times
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A nuttery of two dozen cobs and filberts was added in the hollow below the orchard a year later.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fewer than two dozen large, politically powerful companies control delivery of most of the news and information we receive.
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It sickens nearly two dozen other hosts that range from California buckeye, bay laurel, and bigleaf maple to redwood, some rhododendrons, and even certain blueberry cultivars.
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Affordable Care Act," today's decision was either the first well-deserved "pockmark" on the legislation or a wing-nut outlier, penned by a two dozen health care challenges still pending.
Slate Magazine
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The afternoon of my visit Khaled invited me to attend a presentation on the subject of water conservation that he was giving in Nablus to officials from more than two dozen local villages.
The Checkpoint
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It was an officially recognized satanic church and coven that boasted about 5,000 members and two dozen chapters nationwide.
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During the past year, we have included more than two dozen additional commercial geostationary communications satellites that have been ordered or planned by companies such as Intelsat and SES Global.
SpaceRef Top Stories
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His inclusion on the list of Christian martyrs has been proposed by the U.S. Catholic bishops, who have sent the names of more than two dozen Americans to Rome.
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Back in the redwoods in January 1997, a caravan of 100 worshippers - some wearing talliths, or fringed prayer shawls, as Jews have for thousands of years - hiked onto the timber firm's property and planted two dozen redwood seedlings along a barren stream bank.
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Bo Almqvist further analyses the Irish folk tradition, discussing the two dozen variants it contains.
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It consisted of almost two dozen oils - some small, some grand - rounded out by approximately three dozen drawings in pencil, ink, chalk, crayon or pastels.
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Up to two dozen more are understood to support their position.
Times, Sunday Times
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Specimens of this anemone have been seen with as many two dozen clown anemonefish nestled among their tentacles.
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Maciej Zieba, OP, Hittinger himself, and others gave lectures on Catholic social thought to two dozen senior undergraduate and graduate students from America and Eastern Europe.
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Scores of hostages from two dozen countries have been seized in the last four months.
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Fewer than two dozen large, politically powerful companies control delivery of most of the news and information we receive.
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In about two dozen states -- including Maryland -- it forced ratepayers to eat some $100 billion in "stranded" reactor costs in preparation for "free competition.
Harvey Wasserman: Nuke "Renaissance" Leaps off Calvert Cliffs
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The interviews were with nearly two dozen Saudis, from a bejeweled prince of the royal court, sipping coffee at a cafe, to a truck driver wearing a frayed caftan, clutching a bag of onions at a local supermarket.
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Within ten minutes drive from San Pedro there are about two dozen golf courses, and innumerable building sites.
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About two dozen athletes joined Bush in the Rose Garden and he gave them a rousing White House send-off to next month's Olympic Games in China.
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The two dozen or so members train as hard as the drivers, going to a winter camp each off-season.
Times, Sunday Times
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My own wedding was a small affair with just two dozen of our closest friends and relations present.
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There are perhaps two dozen trees in four square miles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The resort offers packages with more than two dozen golf courses in the area.
Times, Sunday Times
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Give me some suggestions so I don't make the grievous error of leaving something out and then getting two dozen emails about it.
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Already, more than two dozen states have passed measures against garbage mail.
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Torgesen fled a bunker in Cu Chi before explosives wiped out more than two dozen other members of the 25th Infantry Division, said Dennis
Heroes or Villains?
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About two dozen people remained unaccounted for, but only three were confirmed to have been in the camp.
Times, Sunday Times
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To make her burst faster off the blocks, Privalova tosses a 120-pound barbell over her head two dozen times a day.
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The three areas have over two dozen ski lifts, mostly chairlifts and gondolas, serving a multitude of trails and runs from the valley floor to open slopes above treeline.
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In addition, they gave equestrian center managers permission to add 17 corrals and space for up to two dozen more horses.
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The interviews were with nearly two dozen Saudis, from a bejeweled prince of the royal court, sipping coffee at a cafe, to a truck driver wearing a frayed caftan, clutching a bag of onions at a local supermarket.
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It will also feature dedicated Caipirinha cocktail bar serving nearly two dozen unique variations of Brazil's national cocktail, Caipirinha, including the signature Samba, a Jalapeno-Cucumber, a Basil and Blackberry and a Caipiroska Bubble Gum.
Undefined
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And since it has more than two dozen straight one-shot kills to its credit over the past dozen years - on everything from turkey to mule deer to waterbuck to zebra - I am afraid to touch it and possibly break the magic spell.
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He has authored or co-authored nearly two dozen books.
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There are perhaps two dozen trees in four square miles.
Times, Sunday Times
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More than two dozen bowlers have started a game with 11 strikes, but for various reasons, tossed a channel ball or fouled to finish with 290.
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More than two dozen police cars were moved into a stormproof building owned by a large building-supply store.
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On a cold, foggy morning in September 2007, two dozen young Jews gathered in a Connecticut fi eld to witness nine goats be shechted, or slaughtered according to Jewish law.
Sue Fishkoff: The New Jewish Food Movement: Jews Who Meet What They Eat
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I've seen or spoken to almost two dozen transport secretaries or ministers since the 1980s.
Times, Sunday Times
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In addition to the flakes we uncovered two dozen fire-scorched rocks, a biface knife, a broken piece of fossiliferous chert that had been heated.
Bird Cloud
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When the onion ring appetizer arrived we were astonished to see that it consisted of about two dozen rings the size of bagels.
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At two dozen other banks, loans averaged about 70% of interest-earning assets, Evercore Partners estimated in a recent report.
Texas Bank's 10-Gallon Valuation
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He is a prolific writer, with more than two dozen technical articles and books to his name.
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The number of deaths has risen to more than two dozen.
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The title of this improbable vade mecum — a sternly selective, mostly chronological survey of some two dozen canonical philosophers and their core precepts — is a fair question (even if bathetically asked).
Cover to Cover
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I've seen or spoken to almost two dozen transport secretaries or ministers since the 1980s.
Times, Sunday Times
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Expecting rave reviews and backslapping verification, he invited two dozen training experts to stop by in November to become test subjects.
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Among these were about two dozen gouaches that are studies for the larger oil paintings.
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These animals, which grow as large as 50 pounds in just one year of life, don't fuss or finick when two dozen lures appear before them out of the blue.
Undefined
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The shopkeeper miscount, so we get twenty five bar of chocolate instead of two dozen.
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Katrina shut down most of US production in the Gulf of Mexico, stopped offloading of imports at the only port that can handle supertankers, and curtailed output at nearly two dozen refineries.
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Two dozen major California health maintenance organizations will receive a report card today on the quality of their preventive services.
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‘Just walk about two dozen paces to the front, and then face the left,’ he explained.
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Two dozen major California health maintenance organizations will receive a report card today on the quality of their preventive services.
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The precious cargo of two dozen gutta-perch balls, three woods, three irons and a putter arrived at the doorstep of John Reid's new home in Yonkers not a day too soon.
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Nearly two dozen people suggested the name Capricorn, pertinent to the fact that the Tropic of Capricorn crosses the province.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Glasgow has six or eight of these big buyers and about two dozen first-division dealers.
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Unfortunately, my attention is diverted to the two dozen photographers camped out below the stage; their flashbulbs pop like fireworks.
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All their shoes assembled by the front door, there must have been two dozen pairs, sandals, boots, moccasins.
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I observed a pair of ringed plovers, a new species for me, a common redshank, two dozen black-winged stilts and a yellow wagtail.
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D'you think a cat habitually rounds up two dozen rats and then chivies 'em out into the street for sport?
Average Jones
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It once totalled over 100 miles of trackage requiring about two dozen locomotives.
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Rather, he relies on his operators and drivers (a combined total of about two dozen employees) to maintain the fleet of excavators, scrapers, graders, dozers, and dump trucks.
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More than two dozen individual press conferences with the senior leadership of both campaigns and various eminences of both political parties had halted abruptly when Alex had bellowed his first obscenity at Haley.
O: A Presidential Novel
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Of the roughly 200 countries in the world, only about two dozen remain monarchies.
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They said I broke into a nearby rabbit farm and slew about two dozen.
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The tracks are 28-ton personnel carriers that can carry two dozen Marines, including the three-man crew.
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Up to two dozen more are understood to support their position.
Times, Sunday Times
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A gathering called The Hangout plans to bri ng John Legend, Alison Krauss and two dozen other acts to Gulf Shores, Ala., next week, even as a massive oil spill threatens its beachfront site.
The Sounds of Summer Festivals
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He has published about two dozen papers in various astronomy and astrophysics journals.
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When winter set in, Steve's class increased in numbers until in January he was conducting the natatory education of more than two dozen fellows.
Left End Edwards
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The resort offers packages with more than two dozen golf courses in the area.
Times, Sunday Times
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U.S. Special Forces engaged and killed approximately two dozen enemy forces in a firefight that started with an ambush.
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I harrumphed, but what is a throat-clearing to someone who knowingly courts cancer two dozen times a day?
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She was surrounded by thousands of onlookers, including two dozen of the so-called highborn, as well as Tanek and Sirajaldin.
Breakdowns
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For this, he earned income and traveled the globe, making two dozen business trips a year.
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Of the two dozen nearest galaxies, only one - the giant spiral Andromeda - is bigger than the Milky Way.
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My own wedding was a small affair with just two dozen of our closest friends and relations present.
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Police confirmed that nine people were dead with more than two dozen missing.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has authored or co-authored nearly two dozen books.
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As a result, Pakistan is renewing its longstanding request to buy at least two dozen F - 16s.
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The preserve provides habitat for over two dozen state-listed plants, including yellow sedge, crinkled hairgrass, water avens, bunchflower, autumn willow, and green cotton-grass.
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The spareless effort, for now, is playing out predominantly at GM where most of its nearly two dozen car and crossover models in the United States do not offer spare tires as standard equipment.
Reuters: Press Release
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They fly in low, up to two dozen pairs at a time, always along the edge closest to the sun and always facing into the wind.
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What price could you quote us on two dozen sets?
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Nearly two dozen paintings, the greater part of his oeuvre, show domestic interiors.
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The resort offers packages with more than two dozen golf courses in the area.
Times, Sunday Times
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She successfully destroyed two dozen hostile ghosts with ultrasonic sound waves and laser grids.
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In addition to the flakes we uncovered two dozen fire-scorched rocks, a biface knife, a broken piece of fossiliferous chert that had been heated.
Bird Cloud
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The gatehouse was a garrison unto itself, with two dozen Reahn guards and passport inspectors checking papers, baskets and weapons.
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