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  • But they saw a rucksack lying on the floor of the red single-decker and feared he might be a fanatic.

    Time out! I have to pray.... GayandRight 2008

  • I wish they would convert the single-decker which plies on this route today back to the double-decker.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Abodh 2006

  • On the morning after a dance, a Red Cross Clubmobile—a converted single-decker London bus—would arrive to serve donuts and coffee.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • I wish they would convert the single-decker which plies on this route today back to the double-decker.

    I wish these were still around in Bombay Abodh 2006

  • On the morning after a dance, a Red Cross Clubmobile—a converted single-decker London bus—would arrive to serve donuts and coffee.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • On Monday morning the five boys and I had set off from home in the big converted single-decker bus that had in the past served as mobile home for us all during periods when the currently-being-rebuilt ruin had been truly and totally uninhabitable.

    Decider Francis, Dick 1993

  • On 10 January 196 1, the 194 workers informed management that if their demands were not met, the single-decker buses would remain at the depot and the double-deckers would 'go slow'.

    8 STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS 1980

  • On 10 January 196 1, the 194 workers informed management that if their demands were not met, the single-decker buses would remain at the depot and the double-deckers would 'go slow'.

    7. BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE 1980

  • Two saloon cars sped by in the other direction, one trying to pass the other, followed by a single-decker country bus full of carefree people taking home their Tuesday afternoon's shopping.

    Dead Cert Francis, Dick 1962

  • The majority are old single-decker buses (the rather smaller buses of ten years ago) which have been taken off their wheels and propped up with struts of wood.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

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