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  • How much money does it take, when an organization receives a complaint, to respond to that complaint in twentyfour hours?

    Riding the Winds of Change 1986

  • The pager she wore twentyfour hours a day, the number of which only her sources and Daily knew, hadn't beeped once, so she'd broken the rules and phoned them.

    A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air 2010

  • It had been twentyfour hours since he'd entertained Barrie Travis in this room.

    A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air 2010

  • Similarly, English has twentytwo or twentyfour, depending how you treat [tʃ] and [dʒ] consonants.

    English spelling reform | Linguism | Language Blog 2008

  • Similarly, English has twentytwo or twentyfour, depending how you treat [tʃ] and [dʒ] consonants.

    English spelling reform | Linguism | Language Blog 2008

  • The only thing that would be unscientific or ignorant would be to presume that a day for god is a twentyfour hour day composed of hours with sixty minutes and minutes with sixty seconds …

    ‘Tis the Season for Tenure Flaps JoAnne 2007

  • Hoed Pine hat with twentyfour ventholes by Morgen.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • On the afternoon of February 26, 1968, the twentyfour-year-old Ensign John Kerry was on watch on the bridge of the USS Gridley.

    Tour of Duty 2003

  • On the afternoon of February 26, 1968, the twentyfour-year-old Ensign John Kerry was on watch on the bridge of the USS Gridley.

    Tour of Duty 2003

  • A hackney car, number three hundred and twentyfour, driver

    Ulysses 2003

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