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- noun As much (text etc.) as a
page will hold.
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Examples
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That's what I hate about the BBC: it witters on and on, giving us a pageful of stupidity, bias, illiteracy, drivel and opinion from this one and that one but doesn't tell you the basic facts that you would want to know.
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And I have a pageful of notes now, and I've addressed all the bits I can remember off the top of my head, and if I get those fixed, anything I'm not remembering will probably more or less just (could I use any more qualifiers there?) work its way into being fixed while I'm doing the bits I remember.
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Russian hackers 'biggest victories so far: crashing the official NATO Web site and replacing the Albanian government site with a pageful of anti-NATO slogans.
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Patrick Hassel Zein has a pageful of links on the Chinese language, many of which look useful and/or interesting, but the one I want to highlight here is The most common Chinese characters in order of frequency.
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Ishmael glanced up from his own silent brooding over a pageful of mathematical calculations that he'd made while observing the Wheel of Fortune.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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Ishmael glanced up from his own silent brooding over a pageful of mathematical calculations that he'd made while observing the Wheel of Fortune.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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The first, of course, for association's sake, is that pageful of
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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"This veritable king of the Himal --" (here follows a pageful of regulation guide-book gush).
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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I repeat that this pageful of disasters is merely the record of an average day, when nothing much is happening: and incidentally it occurs in a newspaper which, rather than most, tries to put a good face on things.
As I Please 1946
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Lamb's specimens from Fuller, most of which are only two or three lines long, and none a pageful, for once contradict the axiom quoted above as to a brick and a house.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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