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Examples
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So I guess big "guv'ment" ain't such a bad thing, according to the republicans.
White House briefings leave Hill with 'unanswered questions' 2009
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Well good, guv'ment, especially Obama's guv'ment is NOT the answer.
Democratic senator: Public health insurance option dead 2009
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Remember that money the guv'ment sent us sometime ago?
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008
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Perhaps Breckenridge's insanely grassrooty, small towney, get big guv'ment off our backy vote will convince conservatives that weed deserves its fair shake in the constellation of legal goodies we now enjoy ... but, (yes, you saw it coming), I'm not holding my breath.
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But bearing a new letter of marque from me guv'ment to take prizes off the hated lobster-backs, slavers, and other such scoundrels, I shall be busy soon.
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Private enterprise is going to eventually bypass the guv'ment in space travel.
Archive 2004-04-01 Ed 2004
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And lots of folks are * very* suspicious of men in ties, "You ain't from the guv'ment now, are you boy?" deadsongs. vue.30
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Private enterprise is going to eventually bypass the guv'ment in space travel.
All we need is Blog? Ed 2004
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Every so often a guv'ment boat delivered oil for the beacon and food for the keepers, and it was all hauled up the cliff by rope.
The Cat Who Came To Breakfast Braun, Lilian Jackson 1994
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"Well, the guv'ment kept on sending three men from the mainland to do the job, but they had big dogs."
The Cat Who Came To Breakfast Braun, Lilian Jackson 1994
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