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Last summer, there was a major infestation of the brown, three-quarter-inch bugs in homes throughout the mid-Atlantic, the worst reports coming from West Virginia, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
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I always use three-quarter-inch A-C fir plywood, and we always paint it before we cut it, so that it reveals its construction.
Tom Sachs Tom Vanderbilt 2011
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The wall and ceilings were decorate using wave element made from unique pieces of three-quarter-inch birch plywood adhered together in a scenario that likens to a puzzle; only one possible location for each unit, formulating the continuous member.
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Much of the furious back and forth that summer was about whether to require tankers to have double hulls: The Exxon Valdez had just a single, three-quarter-inch plate of steel.
An Oil-Thirsty America Neil King Jr. 2010
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Last summer, there was a major infestation of the brown, three-quarter-inch bugs in homes throughout the mid-Atlantic, the worst reports coming from West Virginia, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
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Wielding a heavy bolt cutter he had brought from England, the former plumber sliced through the three-quarter-inch steel chain and pushed the gate open.
Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010
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Wielding a heavy bolt cutter he had brought from England, the former plumber sliced through the three-quarter-inch steel chain and pushed the gate open.
Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010
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The government specifications were of uncommon complexity, listing 119 individual items ranging from the grand (3,400,000 cubic yards of concrete to be poured for the dam itself) to the picayune (a three-quarter-inch lacquer finish to be applied to the concrete floors of the hydroelectric station).
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Wielding a heavy bolt cutter he had brought from England, the former plumber sliced through the three-quarter-inch steel chain and pushed the gate open.
Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010
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Wielding a heavy bolt cutter he had brought from England, the former plumber sliced through the three-quarter-inch steel chain and pushed the gate open.
Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010
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