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SIGNATURE A printed sheet of paper, folded to size and ready for sewing (i.e.: large paper folded in half, fourths, eighths, sixteenths, or thirty-seconds).
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Portuguese, one-half Chinese, and eleven thirty-seconds English and
Chun Ah Chun 2010
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But Ah Chun's word went forth, as a whisper, and Captain Higginson forgot his rear-admiralship and his high family and took to wife three hundred thousand dollars and a refined and cultured girl who was one thirty-second Polynesian, one-sixteenth Italian, one - sixteenth Portuguese, eleven thirty-seconds English and Yankee, and one-half Chinese.
Chun Ah Chun 2010
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SIGNATURE A printed sheet of paper, folded to size and ready for sewing (i.e.: large paper folded in half, fourths, eighths, sixteenths, or thirty-seconds).
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Furthermore, the conflict could have been resolved right on the spot with another thirty-seconds of straight communication, explaining how last minute jitters and a child's mistake led to disaster (sorry for the vagueness, no reason to spoil something that occurs an hour into the movie).
Scott Mendelson: Sex and the City and the Misunderstandings Concerning Female Escapist Fantasy 2010
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You really think that any more than a handful of women went to see Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen because of the thirty-seconds of romantic bantering between Megan Fox and Shia LeBeouf?
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SMR: If you met me in a coffee joint and had thirty-seconds to sell me on your comic, what would you tell me?
Archive 2009-03-01 Aaron M. Wilson 2009
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The metric system is way too easy--and while the American system is a testament to the stubbornness of our ways "we don't need no stinkin' metric" and and to how strongly the inch is imprintedin our minds, it also provided immediate rewards for having some clue about fractions, at least the sixteenths and thirty-seconds sort.
Dyscalculia: If I were king... doyle 2008
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The metric system is way too easy--and while the American system is a testament to the stubbornness of our ways "we don't need no stinkin' metric" and and to how strongly the inch is imprintedin our minds, it also provided immediate rewards for having some clue about fractions, at least the sixteenths and thirty-seconds sort.
Archive 2008-08-01 doyle 2008
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Cheers and thunderous applause rose from the audience as Giuilani asked for just another thirty-seconds to tie the ribbon around the package.
Words Matter 2007
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