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  • Measured on the inside, it was five-eighths of a mile around, which meant that drivers could reach higher speeds than they could manage on a standard half-mile course.

    April « 2010 « Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie 2010

  • Measured on the inside, it was five-eighths of a mile around, which meant that drivers could reach higher speeds than they could manage on a standard half-mile course.

    LYNYRD SKYNYRD “Remembering The Free Birds Of Southern Rock by Gene Odom part 2 « Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie 2010

  • As Davis notes, "As of spring 2010, the Motorola V195 includes a warning to keep the phone one inch from the user's body; the BlackBerry 8300, 0.98 of an inch; the Nokia 1100, one-fourth of an inch, and the iPhone, five-eighths of an inch."

    Is your BlackBerry making you sick? Juliet Eilperin 2010

  • His name really was Sweeney, but he was only five-eighths Irish and he was only three-quarters drunk.

    Archive 2010-03-14 Bill Crider 2010

  • But Big Brown was bumped in the first turn, never found his powerful stride along the backstretch and had nothing left with five-eighths of a mile to go in the 1½-mile Belmont.

    Dutrow stung by Big Brown's Belmont defeat 2008

  • As Davis notes, "As of spring 2010, the Motorola V195 includes a warning to keep the phone one inch from the user's body; the BlackBerry 8300, 0.98 of an inch; the Nokia 1100, one-fourth of an inch, and the iPhone, five-eighths of an inch."

    Is your BlackBerry making you sick? Juliet Eilperin 2010

  • As Davis notes, "As of spring 2010, the Motorola V195 includes a warning to keep the phone one inch from the user's body; the BlackBerry 8300, 0.98 of an inch; the Nokia 1100, one-fourth of an inch, and the iPhone, five-eighths of an inch."

    Two books on the radiation dangers of cellphones Juliet Eilperin 2010

  • Measured on the inside, it was five-eighths of a mile around, which meant that drivers could reach higher speeds than they could manage on a standard half-mile course.

    Excerpt: Lynyrd Skynyrd Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock « Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie 2008

  • As Davis notes, "As of spring 2010, the Motorola V195 includes a warning to keep the phone one inch from the user's body; the BlackBerry 8300, 0.98 of an inch; the Nokia 1100, one-fourth of an inch, and the iPhone, five-eighths of an inch."

    Two books on the radiation dangers of cellphones Juliet Eilperin 2010

  • Measured on the inside, it was five-eighths of a mile around, which meant that drivers could reach higher speeds than they could manage on a standard half-mile course.

    Just finished your book » Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie 2008

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