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  • The lit end of the cigar went sailing like a comet behind the bar and into a twenty-gallon trash can to mingle with folded six-pack cartons, broken down boxes, etc.

    Slave to the Rhinestone 2010

  • So picture this, four of five Puerto Rican males in a poorly-lit room with the combined education of maybe the 8th grade, whacked on heroin or cocaine, drunk on port wine, with about fifty or sixty small piles of white powder lined out on a old door top propped on two twenty-gallon plastic paint containers being used as a cutting table.

    Richard Farrell: Fighting My Own Drug War: An Excerpt From What's Left of Us 2009

  • One car may “live” for 500 miles—25miles per gallon on a twenty-gallon tank.

    You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007

  • One car may “live” for 500 miles—25miles per gallon on a twenty-gallon tank.

    You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007

  • One car may “live” for 500 miles—25miles per gallon on a twenty-gallon tank.

    You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007

  • Got a twenty-gallon aquarium, which is lots of room for her.

    [film] Control Room, eXistenZ badger 2004

  • She looked much bigger in the two-gallon tank than she does in the oversized picture frame of her twenty-gallon tank.

    moreseektrem,&Growing@Nightlight badger 2004

  • I'm tempted to get the scorpions a twenty-gallon tank instead of their current ten-gallon, just to see how they'd reshape the terrain in a larger tank.

    book (outgoing&incoming), mail, web, projects badger 2003

  • Behind are twenty-gallon tanks filled with crustaceans and fish.

    Songs of the Humpback Whale Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 1992

  • The top end was fastened to a pump and a twenty-gallon drum.

    The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987

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