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  • abbreviation billion years ago

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Examples

  • Rachman who lost his title bya close split decision in an exciting battle with hard-hitting Filipino southpaw Florante Condes on July 7, 2007 in Jakarta is a fighter in the true sense of the word.

    BoxingScene.com 2009

  • We have a patio table with umbrella on our back deck, the basewhichis supported bya large, tapered stone.

    Squirrely behavior : Bev Vincent 2009

  • This view is supported bya recent poll showing that a slim majority of Seattleites favor taking more time to to plan for how the 520 bridge could accommodate light rail.

    Talking 520 and Climate With The Mayor « PubliCola 2010

  • Booing/hissing (what Dems have done to Duh Duh Duh-bya) is NOT the same as coming out and calling the POTUS a liar.

    (Updated): Wilson's opponent raises more than $500K 2009

  • Like Moby-Dick, Cloudsplitter filters our perceptions of its main character by presenting us with an account composed bya witness to events, in Owen's case someone with intimate knowledge of the personage involved and himself an important influence on those events, but nevertheless an account the fraught nature of which itself provides at least as much dramatic tension as the actions taken by the character motivating the narrative.

    Historical Fiction 2010

  • We have a patio table with umbrella on our back deck, the basewhichis supported bya large, tapered stone.

    2009 June : Bev Vincent 2009

  • September 20th, 2009 11: 28 am ET the tightie righties were all aboard when Duh-bya was in office, Now that Obama is trying to win the actual war (NOT the bogus Iraq one), they do nothing but criticize.

    Obama: Afghanistan strategy is still a work in progress 2009

  • I spent your "middle class tax cut" the same way I spent the one provided by George Du (m) bya ... by supersizing my lunch at McDonalds.

    Obama says Tea Partiers owe him a thank you 2010

  • So starts an account bya researcher (who dislikes the term 'scientist') who is investigating the way dolphins communicate with each other overdistances of hundreds ofmiles of ocean.

    Writing Maxine 2009

  • Like Moby-Dick, Cloudsplitter filters our perceptions of its main character by presenting us with an account composed bya witness to events, in Owen's case someone with intimate knowledge of the personage involved and himself an important influence on those events, but nevertheless an account the fraught nature of which itself provides at least as much dramatic tension as the actions taken by the character motivating the narrative.

    August 2009 2009

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