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Examples

  • "The crew looked out their window and observed a projectile with a white-grey tight spiral smoke trail rising from their 7 o'clock, climbing through their level and exploding 2000ft 3000ft above and 0. 5-1nm [nautical miles] ahead of the aircraft," it read.

    Afghanistan war logs: US covered up fatal Taliban missile strike on Chinook 2010

  • The ceiling is the light fixture itself - a panel that provided a dim white-grey light when we were there, but whenever I pass it in the afternoon it is red.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Etienne 2006

  • The ceiling is the light fixture itself - a panel that provided a dim white-grey light when we were there, but whenever I pass it in the afternoon it is red.

    Senderens Etienne 2006

  • I'd have three colours - browny-orange, white-grey and black.

    15th September '05 2005

  • After about 30 seconds at a reasonably high volume my ears are simply under attack by this mush of white-grey noise which is suffocating the rest of the frequency range.

    Why records are getting louder 2005

  • The white-grey water was like — like the belly of a fish!

    In Chancery 2004

  • In the region of the sun, a lightness appeared, and between the white-grey clouds could be caught glimpses of an azure sky.

    Boyhood 2003

  • The largest links of these West – Arabian Gháts are of white-grey granite, veined and striped with quartz; and they are subtended inland by the porphyritic traps of the Jibál el-Shafah, which we shall trace to the parallel of El – Hamz, the end of

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • And his white-grey face and the no-coloured eyes behind the steel-rimmed spectacles were cruel looking because he had steadied the hand first with his firm soft fingers and that was to hit it better and louder. —

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • This day, however, round the corner on the white-grey road, between the grass and the low stone walls, a roan horse came stepping bravely and briskly down-hill, driven by a man in a cap, perched on the front of his light cart.

    The Virgin and the Gypsy 2003

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