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  • Before I decided I was too boring to be a blogger, I broke the story of city bicycles equipped with heavy-calibre ordnance in my review of the Finnish

    Public Servitude: Making the Streets Safe for Absurdity BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • It opened up, heavy-calibre cannon rounds spitting out, raining down on the building at the objective, tearing up the walls, churning up the earth around it.

    An Ordinary Soldier Doug Beattie MC With Philip Gomm 2008

  • The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy-calibre weapons.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Smuggled Photos that damn Hezbollah 2006

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    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Smuggled Photos that damn Hezbollah 2006

  • It was far off, but the sound was heavy, the gut-pounding percussion of a heavy-calibre mortar.

    Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001

  • He was shot at least 40 times with heavy-calibre bullets when he stopped in front of his sister's house in Gxolom Road in the Unathi informal settlement around 8. 30pm.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • There were two loud cracks, from what sounded like a heavy-calibre pistol.

    Some by Fire Pawson, Stuart 1999

  • Wednesday morning reported heavy-calibre gunfire in the east of the city.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Superintendent Henry Budhram said the gang attacking Maswazine used AK47 rifles and other heavy-calibre weapons, and seemed to be shooting at random.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Mr Mugabe ` s airborne arrival sets off a severe nervous reaction that goes back to the 70s when the guerrillas came under rocket and heavy-calibre machinegun attack from Rhodesian helicopter gunships.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

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