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  • But if he had provided all the "shalt nots" that they are looking for, the bible would be so volumnous it would be impossible to read.

    Living the Dream 2007

  • So instead of continuing to pickle my brains in the volumnous literature surrounding the history of genetic divergence in various species of Drosophila, I decided to take some time to skim through a number of the news articles that the Dover trial has spawned in the last week.

    Another Dover news carnival - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • So instead of continuing to pickle my brains in the volumnous literature surrounding the history of genetic divergence in various species of Drosophila, I decided to take some time to skim through a number of the news articles that the Dover trial has spawned in the last week.

    The Panda's Thumb: October 2005 Archives 2005

  • The volumnous report, expected to be tabled in Parliament along with the Action Taken Report during the ongoing winter session, is believed to have refrained from coming down heavily on the then Union government headed by P V Narasimha Rao, saying that the then state governor did not do much and also did not seek the Centre's intervention.

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2009

  • The volumnous report, expected to be tabled in Parliament along with the Action Taken Report during the ongoing winter session, is believed to have refrained from coming down heavily on the then Union government headed by P V Narasimha Rao, saying that the then state governor did not do much and also did not seek the Centre's intervention.

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2009

  • The volumnous report, expected to be tabled in Parliament along with the Action Taken Report during the ongoing winter session, is believed to have refrained from coming down heavily on the then Union government headed by P V Narasimha Rao, saying that the then state governor did not do much and also did not seek the Centre's intervention.

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2009

  • The volumnous report, expected to be tabled in Parliament along with the Action Taken Report during the ongoing winter session, is believed to have refrained from coming down heavily on the then Union government headed by P V Narasimha Rao, saying that the then state governor did not do much and also did not seek the Centre's intervention.

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2009

  • The volumnous report, expected to be tabled in Parliament along with the Action Taken Report during the ongoing winter session, is believed to have refrained from coming down heavily on the then Union government headed by P V Narasimha Rao, saying that the then state governor did not do much and also did not seek the Centre's intervention.

    Times Now 2009

  • The key is “probably cause” – which is the subject of volumnous case history … Again, though — we’re talking specifically about “electronic surveillance” not search and seizure.

    Think Progress » Fact Check: Clinton/Carter Executive Orders Did Not Authorize Warrantless Searches of Americans 2005

  • [8] Then unprinted but now included in the very volumnous edition of Lady Winchilsea’s Poems.ed. M. Reynolds, Chicago, 1903.

    A Memoir of Mrs. Behn 2002

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