Next to that stack was a single, quarter-inch thick manual.

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At the scene a man with a big forehead, gray hair, a flat nose, and a few missing teeth lay on the sidewalk, next to a stack of books and an empty coffee-cup.

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And I have to tell you, I just did an address on this where I was sitting next to a stack of Federal Registers where all the regulations exist, and it was a pretty high stack.

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He had a stack of evaluation forms next to him and, as he watched the game, he was charting and grading every throw that Daniel made.

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He looked dapper in a dark suit and tie and proved a gracious host, speaking excellent, if not always idiomatic, English for 90 minutes in his suite at the posh Carlyle Hotel, where a lesser-known novel by Alexandre Dumas lay open on the coffee table and a stack of European films on DVD sat next to a flat-screen television.

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On a folding wooden chair next to her cot sits a can of sunflower seeds and a stack of crossword puzzles from a local Russian-language newspaper.

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"We've looked at the idea of 'garbage collection', how to get the cars back to the nearest stack where they can recharge their batteries ready for the next customer, " said Chin.

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