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  • Besides, most people are now alert for posure mail pieces and toss em or get angry for the wasted time.

    IL-06: NRCC Mailer Against Duckworth Simulates Official Social Security Mailing 2009

  • You may want to pay it a visit for works by Marlene Dumas (X-posure, 1999) and Thomas Ruff (nudes ama14, 2000).

    Seduced at the Barbican « Jahsonic 2007

  • You may want to pay it a visit for works by Marlene Dumas (X-posure, 1999) and Thomas Ruff (nudes ama14, 2000).

    13 « October « 2007 « Jahsonic 2007

  • The tricorder told her that the level of ex-posure was beyond what would be fatal to a Bajoran.

    Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001

  • Arms folded across his chest, he turned his back, stared grimly at nothing until he had regained some measure of his com - posure.

    Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

  • So the speed with which he lost his com-posure was unsettling.

    The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

  • Drained by ex-posure, the sailors would rouse too slowly if left to themselves: No leeway remained for mistakes; and Emien knew he could never endure Tathagres 'scorn should he fail to bring the pin-nace in safely.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

  • Folding her arms across her chest pro tectively, she groped through the chaos of her mind for the end of the slipping rope of her com posure.

    Breakfast In Bed Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1983

  • Almanac, and had applied his knowledge to a theory about the optimal arrangement of leaves around the stems of plants (phyllotaxis) to obtain maximum ex - posure to air and sunlight.

    PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968

  • Glennard, under his wife's com - posure, detected a sensibility to this manoeuvre, and the discovery was like the lightning-flash across a nocturnal landscape.

    The Touchstone 1900

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