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  • At lot viewing sessions for major or semi-major auctions, and on the bourse floor of major conventions, I often see coins with waxes, films, gels, putties and sort of paint-like substances.

    Coin Rarities & Related Topics: The PCGS Lawsuit Against Alleged Coin Doctors : Coin Collecting News 2010

  • At lot viewing sessions for major or semi-major auctions, and on the bourse floor of major conventions, I often see coins with waxes, films, gels, putties and sort of paint-like substances.

    Coin Rarities & Related Topics: The PCGS Lawsuit Against Alleged Coin Doctors : Coin Collecting News 2010

  • Given the way things are at this point, making the changes is going to be a semi-major effort, if only because it means unplugging things en masse and likely untangling cable hell.

    Desires for devices 2008

  • The earthquake plays a semi-major role here, and not in the way you might think.

    [Sunday Cinema] Journeyman: 'Game Three' 2008

  • I chose that particular slingshot because it results in a semi-major axis of 1 au, with a period of 1 year and somewhat ahead of the Earth in its orbit.

    Asteroid Capture into Earth Orbit Stephen D. Covey 2010

  • The earthquake plays a semi-major role here, and not in the way you might think.

    August 2008 2008

  • Using this as an interesting starting point, the authors ran another series of 201 integrations where the semi-major axis of Mars was changed by up to 30 mm.

    Planets Found and Lost Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • Five and a half years after its release, Move Under Ground is still getting reviewed in major or semi-major anyway venues, this time at Tor.com.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

  • I don't know what kind of crack I was smoking when I decided to have a wedding, start a new job and begin semi-major home renovations in the first two months of 2009.

    I'm gonna lose it microbiologist xx 2009

  • Using this as an interesting starting point, the authors ran another series of 201 integrations where the semi-major axis of Mars was changed by up to 30 mm.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009

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