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  • Then, from across the dinosaur pen, Nolan rose and fired a halfdozen shots in their direction.

    Forgetfulness ISCARS 2010

  • During the past halfdozen years, longer than a bird could remember, she had not even set eyes on a member of her own species.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • During the past halfdozen years, longer than a bird could remember, she had not even set eyes on a member of her own species.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • A halfdozen brawls for no reason but the tension everyone's under.

    Chain of Attack Gene De Weese 2000

  • After sending the Enterprise on a halfdozen uneventful runs through the spot where the gate had once been, he had ordered the search resumed, this time not limiting it to the nearby stars but moving straight out through the cluster at a warp factor that he doubted the ship could safely maintain for any length of time.

    Chain of Attack Gene De Weese 2000

  • After sending the Enterprise on a halfdozen uneventful runs through the spot where the gate had once been, he had ordered the search resumed, this time not limiting it to the nearby stars but moving straight out through the cluster at a warp factor that he doubted the ship could safely maintain for any length of time.

    Chain of Attack Gene De Weese 2000

  • A halfdozen brawls for no reason but the tension everyone's under.

    Chain of Attack Gene De Weese 2000

  • A halfdozen brawls for no reason but the tension everyone's under.

    Chain of Attack Gene De Weese 2000

  • After sending the Enterprise on a halfdozen uneventful runs through the spot where the gate had once been, he had ordered the search resumed, this time not limiting it to the nearby stars but moving straight out through the cluster at a warp factor that he doubted the ship could safely maintain for any length of time.

    Chain of Attack Gene De Weese 2000

  • He had a halfdozen friends who were on full pension and working as investigators, maybe he'd called one of them.

    Black and Blue Quindlen, Anna 1998

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