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  • The old man has some kind of message to deliver to the world, and since the play occurs fifty-odd years before the invention of the blog, he has hired an orator to deliver it.

    Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: Chairs in the City of Dreams Marc Porter Zasada 2011

  • Possibly some slant-eyed, light-fingered pickpocket was even then enjoying the fifty-odd yen his purse had contained.

    In Yeddo Bay 2010

  • The old man has some kind of message to deliver to the world, and since the play occurs fifty-odd years before the invention of the blog, he has hired an orator to deliver it.

    Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: Chairs in the City of Dreams Marc Porter Zasada 2011

  • By the middle of the century, the fifty-odd living members of the Mendelssohns, either descended directly or married into the family, included only four Jews.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • He need not have added the second clause, since he was evidently unaware that the first of London's fifty-odd books was published in 1900.

    Interview With Jack London Scholar Dr. Earle Labor 2010

  • Theoretically a government provides some form of compensation — military services, police services, fire services, court services, “bread and circuses” to distract the masses who might act as overt thieves otherwise — but such compensation, even moreso in the last fifty-odd years — can be indirect, unobvious, and/or useless.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Economic Alchemy 2010

  • The old man has some kind of message to deliver to the world, and since the play occurs fifty-odd years before the invention of the blog, he has hired an orator to deliver it.

    Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: Chairs in the City of Dreams Marc Porter Zasada 2011

  • By the middle of the century, the fifty-odd living members of the Mendelssohns, either descended directly or married into the family, included only four Jews.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Holding the MP-5 in the ready position he came out of the water and darted across the fifty-odd feet of white sand and through the first line of palm trees.

    Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010

  • So I searched out the lyrics for Yakety Yak, and was amused at how, fifty-odd years on, the generation gap between parents and teenagers hasn't really changed much:

    Golden Oldies Steve Perry 2010

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