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  • In case anyone should need to use the restroom, get some air, or check on a child during the service, the campus is fitted with a series of speakers atop twenty-foot poles so the sermon can be heard anywhere.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • But the grand hotel, with twenty-foot ceilings in every room including the bathrooms, was tailor-made for debauchery.

    Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

  • Within moments the chopper hit the water, rolled once, then disappeared, swallowed by a twenty-foot wave.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • But the grand hotel, with twenty-foot ceilings in every room including the bathrooms, was tailor-made for debauchery.

    Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

  • “Why was my twelve-year-old sister on top of a twenty-foot wall with nothing under her but the pavement?”

    Odd Girl In Jo Whittemore 2011

  • Within moments the chopper hit the water, rolled once, then disappeared, swallowed by a twenty-foot wave.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • Once we watched twenty-foot waves break over a cottage built on the sand, then carry it out to sea.

    Luanne Rice: No Japan is an Island Luanne Rice 2011

  • China Merchants' overall port-handling throughput rose 19% last year to 52.28 million twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs.

    China Merchants Net Soars 82% Joanne Chiu 2011

  • Once we watched twenty-foot waves break over a cottage built on the sand, then carry it out to sea.

    Luanne Rice: No Japan is an Island Luanne Rice 2011

  • All those crazy fishermen going after a twenty-foot shark with a dinghy and a flare gun?

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

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