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  • In the UK, the average indie band is lucky if bootleggers have ironed their spotty faces on to a job-lot of cheap white T-shirts.

    The Horrors on travel, tequila and hypersonic sound 2011

  • So we arrive, patch them up or take them to hospital and I would guess that the Met can then do a job-lot of statement taking down at the hospital …

    Free Michael Jackson mp3 downloads « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • The delightful young owner, Erma Jean, mostly dealt in second-hand commercial paperbacks, but occasionally she'd acquire an interesting job-lot from an estate sale.

    MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009

  • A redwood tree in Westfield, New Jersey! in the midst of a chicken-run, job-lot, shingle-and-lath type of developement project, fiendishly designed to be obsolescent ten years before the mortgage could be paid off; he had visualized it towering three hundred feet high over the ruins.

    Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth 2010

  • I recently bought up a job-lot of extremely cheap words, and discovered some of dubious quality, the spelling being somewhat variable, I used several hundreds before I discovered that, of course.

    Jean-Honore Fragonard – The Swing 1767 | ultraorange.net 2008

  • It's hard to see how "phil5fac" can possibly be doing the right thing, selling 20 vintage 1970s Fender guitars as a job-lot on Ebay, although with five days to go, they're already at £7,100 or £355 each.

    Archive 2004-11-01 2004

  • It's hard to see how "phil5fac" can possibly be doing the right thing, selling 20 vintage 1970s Fender guitars as a job-lot on Ebay, although with five days to go, they're already at £7,100 or £355 each.

    Ebay of the Day: Instant vintage guitar collection 2004

  • 'It came with a job-lot of stuff I bought from a demolition firm,' Sam explained without stress.

    Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

  • 'It came with a job-lot of stuff I bought from a demolition firm,' Sam explained without stress.

    Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

  • As my cousin couldn't account for this job-lot of kinsmen -- had no idea how many had been hanged, gone into politics or written poetry, I rang off.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

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