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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

  • 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.

    Oil Spill: Baby Animals Hit The Hardest (PHOTOS) 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    Oil Spill: Baby Animals Hit The Hardest (PHOTOS) 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    Let's welcome John Grisham! 2006

  • Abalones along Pacific coast may owe their huge, dinner-plate size to sea otters

    King David's descendants; Science news releases 2005

  • 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.

    Mortadella? Molto Bella! 2007

  • 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

  • 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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