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Examples
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Asked about the motive for their demonstration, one protester - carrying a jerry-can of gasoline - simply shrugged.
MP Nunan: Demonstrators Overthrow Al Jazeera MP Nunan 2011
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I asked one woman, Lydia, how she got water and she explained that her "jerry-can," a 20-kilo water tank, is too heavy for her to lift, so she "rents" it out to children who pay her with water at the end of the day.
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His friend, shorter and plumper, lights a cigarette and taps the ash next to a jerry-can of diesel.
justinker Diary Entry justinker 2005
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An 'where's this overgrown jerry-can of yours got to, too?'
The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992
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The pedals move a generator of electricity connected to a pair of titanium electrodes that are immersed into a plastic jerry-can.
WN.com - Articles related to Ethiopia requests more money for refugees from Somalia and Eritrea 2010
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The pedals move a generator of electricity connected to a pair of titanium electrodes that are immersed into a plastic jerry-can.
WN.com - Articles related to Ethiopia requests more money for refugees from Somalia and Eritrea 2010
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I haven't laughed so much since I was shown the jerry-can filling machine.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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I haven't laughed so much since I was shown the jerry-can filling machine.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Over the last year the price of a jerry-can of water has doubled.
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