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The school cafeteria staff has cooked the Reformation Day feast, which congregants eat while chatting and catching up with one another at the twenty-odd banquet tables that have been set up in the gym—the floor carefully covered over with brown plastic tarps.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Even under British rule, “little cakes” kept their Dutch name for roughly a generation, or twenty-odd years, the time it takes for a newborn to learn a native language, grow up on milk and koekjes, enter the adult world, and pass a language on to young ones.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Even under British rule, “little cakes” kept their Dutch name for roughly a generation, or twenty-odd years, the time it takes for a newborn to learn a native language, grow up on milk and koekjes, enter the adult world, and pass a language on to young ones.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

My whole shtick is putting twenty-six letters, ten numbers, and twenty-odd punctuation marks in an order that makes people cringe and guffaw and wet themselves and hide under the bed.

A Man in Trouble 2009

The night we took Bouresches with twenty-odd men, and news came through that others had filtered in and the town was ours, we shot out a truck load of ammunition over the road.

Beth Crumley: "Elizabetrh Ford" - A Model T Truck in France Beth Crumley 2012

The cabin boy, a bearded man of twenty-odd, lost hold, slipped, swung around the mast, and was pinched against the boss of rock.

Chapter 15 2010

Not bothered about not eating these past twenty-odd days, no, but I would kill for a cigarette.

The Hill of Crosses James Greer 2011

It was the best of the twenty-odd debates we did: scholarly, contemporary, fiery, and on both sides ferociously-argued (you can see the debate at Shmuley. com).

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Gay Obsession Has Marginalized Evangelicals Politically Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2010

The presentation wasn't about the twenty-odd outfits shown, apparently completed before Mr. Galliano's suspension.

Toned-Down Galliano Draws Curious Crowd Christina Passariello 2011

The night we took Bouresches with twenty-odd men, and news came through that others had filtered in and the town was ours, we shot out a truck load of ammunition over the road.

Beth Crumley: "Elizabetrh Ford" - A Model T Truck in France Beth Crumley 2012