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I hired a local handyman to do it, and his method was to fill the pea-sized holes with drywall/spackle but then proceed to smooth it over with a giant flat tool, leaving a dozen dinner-plate sized white spots on the wall that he had to paint over, leaving an obvious color difference.
Projects You Shouldn’t Try To DIY | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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All but two of the sea turtles - a 150-pound oiled loggerhead dubbed Big Mama and an 85-pound loggerhead that was sick but free of oil - are juveniles, ranging from saucer - to dinner-plate size.
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Rows of spikes like gigantic porcupine quills protruded from its neck and head, and huge dinner-plate eyes covered the sides of a tiny head perched like a control cabin above an immense scoop-shaped mouth.
"The Morons" by Harl Vincent, part 1 Johnny Pez 2010
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All but two of the sea turtles - a 150-pound oiled loggerhead dubbed Big Mama and an 85-pound loggerhead that was sick but free of oil - are juveniles, ranging from saucer - to dinner-plate size.
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I hired a local handyman to do it, and his method was to fill the pea-sized holes with drywall/spackle but then proceed to smooth it over with a giant flat tool, leaving a dozen dinner-plate sized white spots on the wall that he had to paint over, leaving an obvious color difference.
Projects You Shouldn’t Try To DIY | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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A BODY DOUBLE, contrariwise, is a person who takes his clothes off and has his rippling abs and dinner-plate pecs cinematographed, said images to be interespersed with head shots of the star.
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Abalones along Pacific coast may owe their huge, dinner-plate size to sea otters
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At hearing the word “mortadella”, the nun shot up, put her tray down, approached us and I think told us all about mortadella, ending her description with an enthusiastic flourish of her arms that described a circle about the size of a large dinner-plate, which indicated to me that the mortadella in Taormina was large in circumference and probably worth investigating further.
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He produced from under his arm the carefully cuddled-up package, which was in shape a round flat disk, like a dinner-plate, tied in paper.
Two on a Tower 2006
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At times sloping up in the manner of the rim of an inverted dinner-plate — while in other cases, a high ridge rises near the sea, to be succeeded by a lower district inland before we reach the central plateau.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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