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He was a longtime contributor to Texas Runner & Triathlete magazine, producing half of a humor column called Running Debate, in which Mike Vance, a comic and nonrunner, sparred with Fraser about the pros and cons of running.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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He was a longtime contributor to Texas Runner & Triathlete magazine, producing half of a humor column called Running Debate, in which Mike Vance, a comic and nonrunner, sparred with Fraser about the pros and cons of running.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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It aggrandizes the insular world of running in a way that, with due respect to its new publisher, no nonrunner could possibly relate to.
The Overhead Wire 2009
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It said three Conservative peers had not answered the reporters 'calls, and two other members representing smaller opposition parties had rejected offers of payment, one of them saying angrily, "It's a nonrunner" and contrary to basic concepts of integrity.
NYT > Global Home 2009
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SuperCroc was a nonrunner that probably spent its time in rivers, grabbing dinosaurs that waded in for a drink,
unknown title 2009
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By contrast Lord Rogan, the Ulster Unionist peer, said: If your direct proposal is as stark as for me . . . to help to put down an amendment, that’s a nonrunner.
More Labour Sleaze: Labour Lords happy to accept bribes. FIDO The Dog 2009
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