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  • Though Seymour Durst told The Times he had no immediate plans to develop the companies 'West Side properties then-the 160,000-square-foot site would take between 15 and 20 years alone to develop, he estimated-the younger Durst said the firm had almost completed a deal on the site of what would become One Bryant Park when the economy crashed.

    Diamond From the Rough 2009

  • Though Seymour Durst told The Times he had no immediate plans to develop the companies 'West Side properties then-the 160,000-square-foot site would take between 15 and 20 years alone to develop, he estimated-the younger Durst said the firm had almost completed a deal on the site of what would become One Bryant Park when the economy crashed.

    Diamond From the Rough 2009

  • She was thinking back half a dozen years to the subway murders and the famous Central Park riot, when she was a lowly T.A. cop, and to the Margo Green she had met back then-the young, feisty, and deeply courageous woman who'd risked her life and helped crack open the case.

    Dance Of Death Preston, Douglas 2005

  • These days, Bob Ritchie grins the same grin that was plastered on Mr. Roth back then-the rictus of a man who has the world by the balls in a downward tug.

    Madonna: Zero to 90's 2001

  • So it -- as it turned out, it was two more black children who were killed that day, one by a police bullet and one by two white teen-agers who happened to ride by this paperboy and shot him off then-the handlebars of his bike.

    Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama - The climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution 2001

  • Long before noon, Gaius Verres had escaped the neighborhood with six hundred thousand sesterces of Carbo's official allowance, bound via the back roads first for his own estates in the upper Tiber valley, and then-the lighter of twenty-four talents of silver coins-for wherever he might find Sulla.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • When the things you call Shadowen began to appear-there was no name for them then-the Federation was quick to place the blame for the sickening of the land on the Elves.

    The Elf Queen of Shannara Brooks, Terry 1992

  • She hadn't paid attention then-the more fool her-she'd thought she would have no trouble, as an inn-brat herself, in finding plenty of places.

    The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

  • And even then-the Free Bards were anything but stupid.

    The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

  • Well then-the next ten minutes would be next to unendurable, would they not?

    Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992

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