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Through the double doors, round the filing racks, and back to his swivel seat in front of the green-on-green VDU screen in Information Processing.
The Obald, Book 1: 1983. Chapter 1: Tuesday November 1 « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009
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Once cooled, the vegetables are individually dressed and then arranged on plates in a green-on-green composed salad.
The City Cook Kate McDonough 2010
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Still, I commend you on picking an attractive shade of green; the green-on-green is definitely going to turn heads.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Show Off Your Inner Geek With A Volokh Conspiracy T-Shirt: 2007
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Also the other day there was what we call, I guess, or what you call a green-on-green, where a warlord attacked another warlord and in a sense U.S. special forces got caught in the middle.
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But we rolled, along through the jungle, smooth like on wheels, the comealong vines snapping at our ankles, the sky green, green-on-green.
1968 Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity 1984
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A painting on canvas reproduces with a slightly cartoonish touch a small, gridded, green-on-green panel used for measuring angles that is displayed just around the corner.
NYT > Home Page By KEN JOHNSON 2011
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Referring to it as a "green-on-green" incident, he said the Marines "weren't shot in their beds, they must have been on guard duty".
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Marines were killed in the "green-on-green" incident, late on Thursday night.
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Now, in all my days of fabric shopping and oogling, I had not seen Wallflower in that monochromatic green-on-green that is up there on top of the stack.
Sommer Designs 2008
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Now, in all my days of fabric shopping and oogling, I had not seen Wallflower in that monochromatic green-on-green that is up there on top of the stack.
Sommer Designs 2008
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