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  • Through the double doors, round the filing racks, and back to his swivel seat in front of the green-on-green VDU screen in Information Processing.

    The Obald, Book 1: 1983. Chapter 1: Tuesday November 1 « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009

  • Once cooled, the vegetables are individually dressed and then arranged on plates in a green-on-green composed salad.

    The City Cook Kate McDonough 2010

  • Still, I commend you on picking an attractive shade of green; the green-on-green is definitely going to turn heads.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Show Off Your Inner Geek With A Volokh Conspiracy T-Shirt: 2007

  • Also the other day there was what we call, I guess, or what you call a green-on-green, where a warlord attacked another warlord and in a sense U.S. special forces got caught in the middle.

    CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2002 2002

  • But we rolled, along through the jungle, smooth like on wheels, the comealong vines snapping at our ankles, the sky green, green-on-green.

    1968 Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity 1984

  • A painting on canvas reproduces with a slightly cartoonish touch a small, gridded, green-on-green panel used for measuring angles that is displayed just around the corner.

    NYT > Home Page By KEN JOHNSON 2011

  • Referring to it as a "green-on-green" incident, he said the Marines "weren't shot in their beds, they must have been on guard duty".

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • Marines were killed in the "green-on-green" incident, late on Thursday night.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • Now, in all my days of fabric shopping and oogling, I had not seen Wallflower in that monochromatic green-on-green that is up there on top of the stack.

    Sommer Designs 2008

  • Now, in all my days of fabric shopping and oogling, I had not seen Wallflower in that monochromatic green-on-green that is up there on top of the stack.

    Sommer Designs 2008

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