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- n. time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
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“Within twenty-four hours of their arrival the Americans started calling in airstrikes on the Taliban front lines, using their laser designators.”
“ViraMedx Releev 1-Day Cold Sore Treatment is the only cold sore medication—natural or otherwise—shown in published studies to give substantial, consistent healing in twenty-four hours against drug-resistant outbreaks.”
“My mother keepsHeadline News on pretty much twenty-four hours a day.”
“After protracted delays—more than twenty-four hours at White House—and misdirections, the Federal troops from Bermuda Hundred at last reached Cold Harbor, and at 4:00 P.M. launched a furious attack in company with the VI Corps.”
“Nagl recalls that Petraeus “was the driver, he was the vision, he was the copy editor, he read the whole thing twice, he turned around chapters in twenty-four hours with extensive edits and comments.””
“As a result of these quick-response data-gathering methods, Deutschmann and Danielson were able to begin telephone inter viewing about twenty-four hours after the news event.”
“Christine Walker, a forty-three-year-old mother of three girls, observes insightfully, I can turn to food twenty-four hours a day.”
“A Days Inn promised a guitar-shaped pool and Elvis movies on demand, twenty-four hours a day.”
“At least twenty-four hours would elapse before the main body of Frémont's force could take up the pursuit.14”
“Less than twenty-four hours later, Felicia died of what was eventually determined to be streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, in which a common bacterial infection becomes extremely invasive and causes damage to the vital organs.”
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