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  • It was a fair-sized, hot-air affair, of single thickness, good for an hour's flight or so and capable of attaining an altitude of a mile or more.

    An Adventure in the Upper Sea 2010

  • Yet there I was the next morning in a fair-sized city, Rochester, N.Y., staring at a stunning array of cheap, fake sugar- and fat-loaded breakfast choices.

    Riva Greenberg: Changing Our Food Choices: If You See Something, Say Something Riva Greenberg 2011

  • It has a lot of fair-sized population centers that are a slightly awkward distance from one another.

    Matthew Yglesias » Where to Build HSR 2010

  • Celebrities: instead of buying "dogs" that even a fair-sized bull snake could swallow, perhaps you need something a bit more, you know, dog-like.

    Why Celebrities Need Real Dogs 2009

  • Celebrities: instead of buying "dogs" that even a fair-sized bull snake could swallow, perhaps you need something a bit more, you know, dog-like.

    Uncategorized Blog Posts 2009

  • Moreover, you can do it with the kids in the back, a fair-sized boot full of their trash and little would the cherubs know – you'd have launched a pre-emptive strike before they can say: "Are we there yet?"

    Car review: Audi RS3 2011

  • Tehaa had caught a shark, and Mauriri had captured a fair-sized octopus at the base of the crevice where the dynamite was stored.

    THE DEVILS OF FUATINO 2010

  • At that time the apparatus required by an agent was so clumsy that it could not be packed in anything less than a fair-sized steamer trunk.

    Goliah 2010

  • Half hidden beneath one of the rose-bushes, a fair-sized stoat in what remained of its red-brown summer coat.

    Excerpt: A Visible Darkness by Michael Gregorio 2009

  • Set in a garden of tropical heliconias, the complex of wood-panelled bungalows includes a fair-sized outdoor pool.

    South America: Perfect posadas Vicky Baker 2010

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