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"Materialien zu einer Geologic der Balkan-halbinsel," _Jahr.k. -k. geol.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The correspondent whose message prompted me to repost about this suggested that “A times less than B” might be a calque — “a loan translation, esp. one resulting from bilingual interference in which the internal structure of a borrowed word or phrase is maintained but its morphemes are replaced by those of the native language, as German halbinsel for peninsula” — from my native Russian, where “X raz men’she or men’eye chem” is routine.
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