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Inspired by the radical innovation that period has seen in information and communication technology, philosophers and writers have hailed what amounts to a break with the humanist tradition that has underpinned western civilisation for over five-hundred years.
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Your table -- the whole gang from The West Wing -- has completely lost control, as have the rest of the five-hundred or so people in attendance.
Aaron Sorkin: Why the Sublime Schtick of Sid Caesar Still Matters Aaron Sorkin 2011
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When I got done, I had five-hundred pages, and it had kind of gone all over the place.
Mike Ragogna: This is Gonna Hurt: A Conversation with Nikki Sixx Mike Ragogna 2011
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Your table -- the whole gang from The West Wing -- has completely lost control, as have the rest of the five-hundred or so people in attendance.
Aaron Sorkin: Why the Sublime Schtick of Sid Caesar Still Matters Aaron Sorkin 2011
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Some five-hundred or six-hundred people died in that conflict, and tens of thousands of refugees—both Ossetians and Georgians—fled the war zone.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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When I got done, I had five-hundred pages, and it had kind of gone all over the place.
Mike Ragogna: This is Gonna Hurt: A Conversation with Nikki Sixx Mike Ragogna 2011
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The white men put up a reward of five-hundred sticks of tobacco, and every time Mauki ventured down to the sea to steal a canoe he was chased by the salt-water men.
MAUKI 2010
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That five-hundred acre tract beyond, you'll be lucky if they pay two hundred an acre.
Chapter XXIII 2010
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We will be asking questions about it for the next five-hundred years.
A Conversation with Dennis Bock, author of The Ash Garden 2010
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Your table -- the whole gang from The West Wing -- has completely lost control, as have the rest of the five-hundred or so people in attendance.
Aaron Sorkin: Why the Sublime Schtick of Sid Caesar Still Matters Aaron Sorkin 2011
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