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Because if you asked yourself what it meant that the Amazon has just come through its second hundred-year drought in the past five years, or that the pine forests across the western part of this continent have been obliterated by a beetle in the past decade -- well, you might have to ask other questions.
Bill McKibben: Stay Calm and Carry On Bill McKibben 2011
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The standard for a hundred-year flood of the Red River of the North at Fargo set by the Army Corps of Engineers in 2001 is 29,300 cfs, a discharge rate never yet recorded.
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Mr. Woods's past stretches of dominance might have been such a hundred-year equivalent.
Why Tiger Will Never Dominate Again John Paul Newport 2011
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Pam gets to wink at the show's own silliness when she complains that Sookie, with her "stupid name" and "magic faerie vagina," can't be more important than her own hundred-year history with Eric.
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Mr. Gould did not exclude the possibility that we could see another .400 hitter in baseball, but that achievement would be "a consummate rarity," comparable to a hundred-year flood, and not the relatively common occurrence it was in baseball's early years.
Why Tiger Will Never Dominate Again John Paul Newport 2011
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They remain skeletons in the closet, or in the soil, of a kids' prison that has a hundred-year rap sheet of brutality.
Jon Jefferson: Strange Bedfellows: What's a Nice Liberal Like Me Doing in Bed With a Tea Party Governor? Jon Jefferson 2011
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The hundred-year flood level is the marker for construction permits.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Josh and Jason of Western Water Consulting came and established the hundred-year floodplain bench.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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They remain skeletons in the closet, or in the soil, of a kids' prison that has a hundred-year rap sheet of brutality.
Jon Jefferson: Strange Bedfellows: What's a Nice Liberal Like Me Doing in Bed With a Tea Party Governor? Jon Jefferson 2011
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Libya has vast reserves of premium, low-sulphur oil and gas, and a hundred-year supply of ancient artesian water.
Eric Margolis: The Gaddafi I Knew Eric Margolis 2011
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