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  • noun Plural form of crateload.

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Examples

  • Five years on, I could not tell you much about the plot, but I always thought that if a moment in time like that could be bottled, then publishers all over the world would buy it in crateloads and books could become real brands.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Lou Anders 2009

  • Five years on, I could not tell you much about the plot, but I always thought that if a moment in time like that could be bottled, then publishers all over the world would buy it in crateloads and books could become real brands.

    How To Create A Buzz About A Book Adam Roberts 2009

  • Buffett's indifference to cyberspace made fools of millions of panting investors who'd staked their retirements on gear and gizmos they probably wouldn't recognize if crateloads of them were dumped on their doorsteps.

    American Everyman 2004

  • Let's see, minus a few crateloads of books I've lost along the way to unreturned borrowings, movements to and from several boarding schools and uni accommodations and houses and assorted detritus - current estimated stock is probably around 500.

    Tree-Killing naddywoman 2006

  • Buffett's indifference to cyberspace made fools of millions of panting investors who'd staked their retirements on gear and gizmos they probably wouldn't recognize if crateloads of them were dumped on their doorsteps.

    American Everyman 2004

  • As reporters walked into the resort just under an hour's drive from Vancouver, blue-clad workers with brooms were sweeping snow around the top of the moguls course and a helicopter ferried back and forth with crateloads of snow dangling beneath it from a long rope.

    WSBTV.com - Local News 2010

  • As reporters walked into the resort just under an hour's drive from Vancouver, blue-clad workers with brooms were sweeping snow around the top of the moguls course and a helicopter ferried back and forth with crateloads of snow dangling beneath it from a long rope.

    WSOCTV.com - Local News 2010

  • Her grandfather was an MP in the 1970s, and Sophie's house is piled with crateloads of election materials.

    Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Rupert Myers 2010

  • As reporters walked into the resort just under an hour's drive from Vancouver, blue-clad workers with brooms were sweeping snow around the top of the moguls course and a helicopter ferried back and forth with crateloads of snow dangling beneath it from a long rope.

    tcpalm.com Stories 2010

  • As reporters walked into the resort just under an hour's drive from Vancouver, blue-clad workers with brooms were sweeping snow around the top of the moguls course and a helicopter ferried back and forth with crateloads of snow dangling beneath it from a long rope.

    KETV.com - Local News 2010

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