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  • It certainly pointed a moral, the idol with feet of clay, and then seventytwo of his trusty henchmen rounding on him with mutual mudslinging.

    Ulysses 2003

  • And APROPOS of coffin of stones the analogy was not at all bad as it was in fact a stoning to death on the part of seventytwo out of eighty odd constituencies that ratted at the time of the split and chiefly the belauded peasant class, probably the selfsame evicted tenants he had put in their holdings.

    Ulysses 2003

  • While I would work seventytwo hours a week, my competitors were working nine to five with an hour off for lunch, five days a week - thiry-five hours a week.

    Entrepreneurs in a Competitive World 1985

  • There has been a growing sense that life imprisonment is sufficient punishment; that the seventytwo-year-old former SS man should be allowed to live out his last years in his cell, untried, rather than awaken the bitterness of the occupation years in a court of law.

    The Progress of Klaus Barbie Gray, Francine du Plessix 1985

  • It certainly pointed a moral, the idol with feet of clay, and then seventytwo of his trusty henchmen rounding on him with mutual mudslinging.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • And _apropos_ of coffin of stones the analogy was not at all bad as it was in fact a stoning to death on the part of seventytwo out of eighty odd constituencies that ratted at the time of the split and chiefly the belauded peasant class, probably the selfsame evicted tenants he had put in their holdings.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • "Then we shall have to make up our minds to go seventytwo miles south, as far as the commencement of the Sierra Ventana, where rivers abound."

    In Search of the Castaways 1873

  • Equal to one million six hundred and seventytwo thousand dollars, [18] for which sum twelve of the ships will be purchased, and all the capital materials for the others.

    The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I Jared Sparks 1827

  • But we are informed by Captain M'Neil, that by the law of Massachusetts Bay, if a vessel is taken within twentyfour hours, one third goes to the recaptors; after twentyfour hours until seventytwo hours, one half; after seventytwo hours and before ninetysix hours, three quarters; and after ninety six hours, the whole.

    The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I Jared Sparks 1827

  • An individual like this can be detained for a seventytwo hour hold for psychiatric evaluation persuant to Health institutions code 5150

    Rad Geek People's Daily 2009

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