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  • So, maybe just for the sake of it, I would say that the guitar I have played the most in the last ten years is probably that Taylor 914, but the guitar I have played the most in the last week is a small-bodied little guitar called a Rockbridge.

    Mike Ragogna: A Special Benefit Concert : A Conversation with Dave Matthews, Grammy Bragging Rights, Plus More Mike Ragogna 2010

  • So, maybe just for the sake of it, I would say that the guitar I have played the most in the last ten years is probably that Taylor 914, but the guitar I have played the most in the last week is a small-bodied little guitar called a Rockbridge.

    Mike Ragogna: A Special Benefit Concert : A Conversation with Dave Matthews, Grammy Bragging Rights, Plus More Mike Ragogna 2010

  • Elephant-shrews (also called sengis, order Macroscelidea) are small-bodied insectivorous mammals with a strictly African distribution.

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • We use a comparative database of 39 independently derived island endemic primate species and subspecies to demonstrate that primates do conform to the island rule: small-bodied primates tend to get larger on islands, and large-bodied primates get smaller.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • **If any musician monkeys out there can clarify if "parlor" is a specific style or just a general term used to describe small-bodied guitars, please let us know in comments.

    Guitar Fridays: 1921 Martin 00-28 Michael Alan Nelson 2009

  • In 2003 Australian and Indonesian scientists discovered small-bodied, small-brained, hominin human-like fossils on the remote island of Flores in the Indonesian archipelago.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Scientific Evidence for the Lord of the Rings 2009

  • Because individuals of small-bodied species require less energy and food than individuals of larger-bodied species, a given amount of energy can support a greater number of individuals of the smaller-bodied species.

    Food web 2008

  • The skull is most likely that of a small-bodied modern human who suffered from microcephaly.

    Science 2006

  • The earliest known elasmothere, Bugtirhinus, was small-bodied and from the tropical Bugti Fauna of Pakistan, so only late, specialised elasmotheres were giant, cold-climate forms (Antoine & Welcomme 2000).

    Are Sumatran rhinos really ‘living fossils’? Darren Naish 2006

  • They harbor, among important species of other groups of organisms, viable populations of a number of small-bodied endemic birds (mostly passerines) and the last populations of the red-handed howler monkey (Alouatta belzebul) in the Brazilian Atlantic forest.

    Pernambuco coastal forests 2008

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