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  • None of the two and a half parties addressed the elephant in the room-the EU.They now have effectively a one partywith two and a half branchesstate.

    British election uncertainty 2010

  • She could picture the locker room-the tile floor, the gray lockers, the orphan sock stuffed in a corner of the shower.

    Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2007

  • He'd looked at the yearbook confiscated from Peter's room-the circles around certain kids who became victims, and others who did not.

    Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2007

  • Smack in the middle was Trixie, standing half naked in Zephyr's living room-the photo Moss had taken the night she was raped.

    The Tenth Circle Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2006

  • I started by heading over to the rear of the room-the area usually set aside as the Nonprofit Ghetto.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2003

  • For what seemed like the tenth time, my mind went to the tiny, disheveled hotel room-the suitcase full of Coombs's prison things, the clippings stashed under his mattress, the numbers on the desk, his letters ...

    2nd Chance Patterson, James, 1947- 2002

  • Cerryl stepped out of the heat, past the silent houseman Soaris, who nodded, and into the comparative cool, following the older man to the front sitting room-the one graced by the portrait of Leyladin's mother.

    Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • She tittered as she scurried off, her shuffling steps echoing softly through the huge room-the lower of two floors of the elegant Anderith Library.

    Soul of the Fire Goodkind, Terry 1999

  • Roland was aware that everyone in the room-the guests numbered per-haps fifty in all - was looking at them, but what he felt most upon his skin, beating like a soft wing, was her regard.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • XXXIV WITH THE SHUTTERS in the great hall closed, the fire in the hearth left the room-the end closest to the fire-nearly comfortable for Ryba and the marines in just the light and tattered shipsuits they wore for heavy work.

    Fall of Angels Modesitt, L. E. 1996

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