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  • In the three-or four-day window from late Sunday to early Thursday, days heavy with teaching duties and paper preparation, not to mention contract negotiations, Millican managed to prove that there was “nothing that would give Obama any cause for concern.”

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • You might want to plan a week like this before you return to work, or at the three-or four-or five-month mark, or prior to a wedding or another big event, or whenever it makes sense for you.

    The Mommy Diet Alison J. Sweeney 2011

  • You might want to plan a week like this before you return to work, or at the three-or four-or five-month mark, or prior to a wedding or another big event, or whenever it makes sense for you.

    The Mommy Diet Alison J. Sweeney 2011

  • In the three-or four-day window from late Sunday to early Thursday, days heavy with teaching duties and paper preparation, not to mention contract negotiations, Millican managed to prove that there was “nothing that would give Obama any cause for concern.”

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • He shook his head at the frenzy of it; the intensity seemed to have increased three-or fourfold since his visit with USMC Matt and his crew chief, Red Nichols, a few days earlier, and he saw that dropping by to see them now was all but an impossibility; they were sealed off by crowds and madness as the big day approached.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • The same principle that has hounded every impressive three-or four-star general trying to earn his spurs in combat and every president who seems unable to resist the appeal for more troops to rescue the United States from the latest snakepit with honor.

    Murray Fromson: Stand Up, Mr. President! 2009

  • He shook his head at the frenzy of it; the intensity seemed to have increased three-or fourfold since his visit with USMC Matt and his crew chief, Red Nichols, a few days earlier, and he saw that dropping by to see them now was all but an impossibility; they were sealed off by crowds and madness as the big day approached.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • He shook his head at the frenzy of it; the intensity seemed to have increased three-or fourfold since his visit with USMC Matt and his crew chief, Red Nichols, a few days earlier, and he saw that dropping by to see them now was all but an impossibility; they were sealed off by crowds and madness as the big day approached.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • After a few casts you take several steps downstream and do it again, and so on, painting the river with three-or four-foot-wide stripes so that every fish you can reach has a chance to see the fly.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • My first few fish were jacks—immature, three-or four-pound king salmon that run upriver with the adults—and then I hooked a much heavier fish that ran me far downstream, followed by Paul with his long-handled landing net.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

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