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Chris Collins had lived with her family in the patched-together weekend house on Maryland's Severn River for several years.
A riverfront retreat, built with the long view Nancy McKeon 2010
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In fact, despite the urban-legend tendency to imagine "mole people" dwelling beneath the metropolis, the village of patched-together homes was the exception among the more typical settings for the unsheltered of New York sidewalks, parks, etc.
The Subterranean Homelessness Blues Nicolas Rapold 2011
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In fact, despite the urban-legend tendency to imagine "mole people" dwelling beneath the metropolis, the village of patched-together homes was the exception among the more typical settings for the unsheltered of New York sidewalks, parks, etc.
The Subterranean Homelessness Blues Nicolas Rapold 2011
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They are looking for a solution before the current patched-together rescue system expires in 2013.
New Euro-Zone Rules Could Backfire Richard Barley 2010
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More forgiving, Stephen Holden in The New York Times called it a “patched-together but still entertaining movie.”
STAR PETER BISKIND 2010
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A patched-together version of I-95 or I-5, Tampa snaked north to Baghdad and through Baghdad Traffic Circle, shot a northwesterly arrow beyond Yarmuk Traffic Circle in Mosul, about 220 miles from Baghdad, and then continued north before running its course in Turkey.
Hope Unseen Captain Scott M. Smiley 2010
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This is one of the reasons I recommended, a quarter century ago, a comprehensive reconstruction of the patched-together structure of schooling we have had for many years.
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A patched-together version of I-95 or I-5, Tampa snaked north to Baghdad and through Baghdad Traffic Circle, shot a northwesterly arrow beyond Yarmuk Traffic Circle in Mosul, about 220 miles from Baghdad, and then continued north before running its course in Turkey.
Hope Unseen Captain Scott M. Smiley 2010
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No matter that he actually died of complications of pneumonia, which he had contracted in the hospital as he was lying in traction, recovering from a broken leg, shattered ankle, and patched-together pelvis, suffered after falling from a hay wagon.
The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010
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He was dressed in a mix of tree bark, animal skins, and the patched-together remnants of what had once been a red jersey and white trousers, all topped off with a torn and battered sailor's cap.
Archive 2009-10-01 Johnny Pez 2009
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