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Examples
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The barn-door sized rear tail is even bigger when you see it up close.
Steve Lehto: Fame, Fortune and Cool Stuff Steve Lehto 2011
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Al Qaeda can still count on the sizeable damage we will inflict on ourselves through an airport security apparatus that specializes in expensive political displays of barn-door closing that seldom have any real security payoff.
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Then, with the last ball of the opening session, Rahul Dravid was castled by a beauty of a bail‑trimmer from Bresnan that sneaked past the outside of his barn-door bat.
India 224, England 84-0 | Third Test day one match report 2011
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The barn-door sized rear tail is even bigger when you see it up close.
Steve Lehto: Fame, Fortune and Cool Stuff Steve Lehto 2011
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Working closely with his brother and sister-in-law, who were the clients, Mr. Palme and his firm, LLP Arkitektkontor, created an ethereal wooden house with sliding barn-door panels that can accommodate the change in seasons.
Summering in Style in Scandinavia J. S. Marcus 2011
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That gives a barn-door target to Labour and Tory traditionalists.
The Liberal Democrats may laugh but the joke could well be on them 2010
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She pointed out their peculiarities and qualities, with the discrimination of one who had made natural history her study; and I own I never looked on barn-door fowls with so much interest before — at least until they were boiled or roasted.
Redgauntlet 2008
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It looks at first almost like a super-sized Scion xB, exploring the possibilities of a cube, or in this case a brick, but with stylish horizontal grooves along the barn-door sides that effectively trick the eye.
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She relieved him of the task of looking after the estate,and while he was writing, she went round Yasnaya Polyana herself, an assortment of barn-door keys hanging at her waist.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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It looks at first almost like a super-sized Scion xB, exploring the possibilities of a cube, or in this case a brick, but with stylish horizontal grooves along the barn-door sides that effectively trick the eye.
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