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At the same time, employees at state-detention centers Monday staged a 24-hour strike, and ambulance workers have called a four-hour work stoppage.
Athens Hit by Transit Strike Alkman Granitsas 2011
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The rumors of problem drinking have not been supported by any hard evidence, and some commentators suggest that Aristegui was irresponsible in airing scandalous accusations backed up by nothing more than a banner waved by political opponents in a legislative body where the four-hour lunch with a couple of tequilas, wine and a brandy is the norm.
Respected Mexican journalist fired for addressing Calderon drinking rumor William Booth 2011
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A good four-hour afternoon session with a lovely instructor/partner can cost less than similar instruction time at a language school and yield tremendous results, quickly.
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A good four-hour afternoon session with a lovely instructor/partner can cost less than similar instruction time at a language school and yield tremendous results, quickly.
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His team is flushed with the excesses of a morning's four-hour bike ride Wednesday morning is set aside for biking.
When Just Any Old Lycra Won't Do Tina Gaudoin 2011
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But after a four-hour wait on Wednesday, there was an extremely worthwhile pot of gold at the end of the rainbow: a reunion, for the first time in 23 years of Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick and Elton John singing "That's What Friends Are For."
Superstar 'Friends' Reunite Marshall Heyman 2011
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While I don't miss the four-hour seders, I miss having that sense of tradition, and the matzo-ball soup.
Erin Mantz: Peek-a-Boo, I Still See You: Following Ex-Family on Facebook Erin Mantz 2011
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Thus began a nearly four-hour ordeal that would include being handcuffed, denied access to her cellphone, locked in a cell while still bound, and strip-searched in the Detroit airport police station.
Airport detainee says she was a victim of racial profiling 2011
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While I don't miss the four-hour seders, I miss having that sense of tradition, and the matzo-ball soup.
Erin Mantz: Peek-a-Boo, I Still See You: Following Ex-Family on Facebook Erin Mantz 2011
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Perth—Australia's fourth-largest city, with a population of 1.7 million—is in the largely wilderness state of Western Australia, about a four-hour flight from Melbourne or Sydney.
West Beckons Australia's Professionals Cynthia Koons 2011
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