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She also had a small protuberance - about half the height of a ping pong ball - on her right cheek, as if a ballbearing had been launched from her throat at a terrible speed and dented the inside of her mouth outwards.
Nicholas Brown: Diary of an Aspiring New Yorker: April 24, 2008 2008
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A group of Moslem men in a Luton park shoot a woman with a ballbearing gun.
Luton - Terrorists in the making Lionheart 2007
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He watches till the teacher's gaze is not directly on him then throws the ballbearing hard at Tom on the other side of the room.
Archive 2006-01-01 Jo McLeay 2006
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To a certain extent, I presume you never heard tell of the Laughton-Zigler automatic two-inch field-gun, with self-feeding hopper, single oil-cylinder recoil, and ballbearing gear throughout?
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
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These muppets are like those ballbearing puzzles where the least tilt sends the whole flock careering from the top to the bottom.
economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk Nick Fletcher 2010
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The group, initially a subsidiary of ballbearing maker SKF, was listed on the stock exchange in 1935.
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The group, initially a subsidiary of ballbearing maker SKF, was listed on the stock exchange in 1935.
WCAX - Local News 2010
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The group, initially a subsidiary of ballbearing maker SKF, was listed on the stock exchange in 1935.
CBS3.com - Philadelphia's Source For Breaking News, Weather, Traffic and Sports 2010
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The group, initially a subsidiary of ballbearing maker SKF, was listed on the stock exchange in 1935.
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These muppets are like those ballbearing puzzles where the least tilt sends the whole flock careering from the top to the bottom.
economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk Nick Fletcher 2010
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