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The four-foot-long, 70-pound fish with a voracious appetite and fast breeding time has slowly escaped from the wild and traveled up the Mississippi River to the Illinois River and through the man-made Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
A Sense of Home and a Sense of Place Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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The four-foot-long, 70-pound fish with a voracious appetite and fast breeding time has slowly escaped from the wild and traveled up the Mississippi River to the Illinois River and through the man-made Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
Archive 2010-05-01 Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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Spooky's mom sent us a link to an adorable photo she'd taken of a four-foot-long Northern Black Racer (Coluber constrictor constrictor) she'd had to relocate from the strawberry patch.
"This is the lowest we will ever get. It never gets darker." greygirlbeast 2010
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The robot is a four-foot-long buoy that is controlled by a remote control, allowing human lifeguards to reach conscious swimmers much faster than ever before possible.
Robot Lifeguard 'Emily' Invented To Save Swimmers The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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One of the smaller plates from the set, a four-foot-long cutaway drawing in pleasantly soft sepia tones, hangs over my couch, and has followed me from Notre Dame to New York and finally to Milwaukee, a reminder that I must measure myself — success and failure alike — not against my peers, but against the great cathedral-builders of old, who had to think big as a matter of course.
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Spooky's mom sent us a link to an adorable photo she'd taken of a four-foot-long Northern Black Racer (Coluber constrictor constrictor) she'd had to relocate from the strawberry patch.
"This is the lowest we will ever get. It never gets darker." greygirlbeast 2010
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Last summer, after Ocean Park, Md., resident Joseph Wayne Short began walking Hillary, his four-foot-long iguana on the boardwalk, the city council passed an ordinance prohibiting undomesticated animals from mingling with the public, according to City Solicitor Guy Ayres.
Leapin' Lizards! Service Animals Are Multiplying Like Doggone Rabbits Ann Zimmerman 2011
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The case emerged after a local newspaper photo showed the fisherman proudly showing off the four-foot-long fish — a scene that, to Mr. Goetschel, was reminiscent of a safari hunter with his foot perched on the head of a dead lion.
Scales of Justice: In Zurich, Even Fish Have a Lawyer Deborah Ball 2010
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The case emerged after a local newspaper photo showed the fisherman proudly showing off the four-foot-long fish — a scene that, to Mr. Goetschel, was reminiscent of a safari hunter with his foot perched on the head of a dead lion.
Scales of Justice: In Zurich, Even Fish Have a Lawyer Deborah Ball 2010
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The case emerged after a local newspaper photo showed the fisherman proudly showing off the four-foot-long fish — a scene that, to Mr. Goetschel, was reminiscent of a safari hunter with his foot perched on the head of a dead lion.
Scales of Justice: In Zurich, Even Fish Have a Lawyer Deborah Ball 2010
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