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Forty-eight percent support canceling the changes that the Obama administration and Congress made to the health care system.
Exit poll: priorities for the next Congress Kyle Dropp 2010
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Forty-eight Republicans opposed the measure then, chiefly because it would permit spending at the rate approved in last month's debt pact between Boehner and Obama, a level that is unpopular with tea party lawmakers.
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Forty-eight seconds later, Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh took a roughing penalty, and as Green swung his stick back for a slap shot from the right circle, New York was hit with a bit of bad luck.
Stymied, Rangers Head Home in a Hole Mike Sielski 2011
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Forty-eight percent of those surveyed described the president's administration as good.
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Forty-eight hours gone, the spirit thermometer had burst at sixty-eight below, and since that time it had grown steadily and bitterly colder.
GRIT OF WOMEN 2010
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Forty-eight percent of those surveyed want Walker to stay in office while 47 percent want him recalled.
HUFFPOST HILL - Ensign Investigation Won't End Eliot Nelson 2011
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Forty-eight hours after we got home, it snowed again.
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Forty-eight hours on I was still sluggish from the Curse.
'The Last Werewolf' 2011
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Forty-eight hours later, the fatigue, nausea, and persistent headache had returned.
Carbon Monoxide 2010
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Forty-eight hours later, she was distressed to find that the cousin had gone to Birmingham and left the girl with someone who was known to be a heavy drug user.
Scandal of the 'forgotten children' whose mothers are in jail 2011
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