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One forty-foot string of pipe hung listlessly from a chain, swaying in the wind.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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The near nudity, my forty-foot body on the LCD screen, was so eye-catching I wondered if it was a distraction.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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I've never seen a forty-foot tall robot pick at its butt before.
Giant Japanese Killer Robots Ulysses 2009
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One forty-foot string of pipe hung listlessly from a chain, swaying in the wind.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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I've never seen a forty-foot tall robot pick at its butt before.
Archive 2009-03-01 Ulysses 2009
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It seems to me that educated people would not touch this sort of argumentation with a forty-foot pole.
Think Progress » Global warming is a ‘nightmare’ for coffee. 2010
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One forty-foot string of pipe hung listlessly from a chain, swaying in the wind.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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It's much easier to climb an forty-foot wall when you are not carrying a gallon of milk.
what followed looks like the sun was praying for a gun matociquala 2010
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It seems to me that educated people would not touch this sort of argumentation with a forty-foot pole.
Think Progress » Global warming is a ‘nightmare’ for coffee. 2010
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A sign of this is that he abandoned Peter—who was his closest friend and had come with him to Brighton—without a qualm when he climbed up the forty-foot wall and passed the night in a cemetery.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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