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  • Single-ply sheets are generally softer than their more durable multi-ply counterparts.

    Above And Beyond: Smartbargains.com Helps You Sleep Well At Night - The Consumerist 2007

  • · OPC is sold in 50 kg bags, preferably heavy quality multi-ply paper bags.

    Chapter 4 1988

  • All three courses of multi-ply defensive screen were out, as were full-coverage spy-ray blocks and thought-screens.

    Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

  • They're a multi-ply so will hold up nicely no matter what your project.

    RVABlogs TheYarnLounge 2010

  • The Royal Canadian Mint plans to introduce a new composition that uses lower-cost "patented multi-ply plated steel technology."

    DailyTech News Feed 2010

  • Single-ply is the cheapest, and the multi-ply is more expensive.

    More! Eugmc 2010

  • At fault, they say, is the US public's insistence on extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply products when they use the bathroom.

    The Moderate Voice 2009

  • In answer to a comments question, the yarn is a multi-ply - 8 plies, if I've counted correctly.

    Wendy Knits 2009

  • At fault, they say, is the US public's insistence on extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply products when they use the bathroom.

    TechNudge 2009

  • Millions of trees are harvested throughout the Americas - including rare old-growth forests in Canada - to sustain the United States 'obsession with quilted, ultra-soft, multi-ply toilet paper, the New York Times reported.

    Psycmeister's Ice Palace! 2009

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