The protesters, maybe three dozen of them, were sitting in clusters.

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The bulk of these, to be sure, are fighting alongside our forces, but there's some nearly three dozen of them that are assessed to be in lead.

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This collection of work by Doris Lessing features three dozen of the Nobel Prize-winner's short stories, most of them, as novelist Margaret Drabble points out in her introduction, written in the realistic tradition set by Chekhov and D.

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After the cultivation of more than 3 billion acres of genetically engineered crops worldwide in some three dozen countries and the consumption in North America alone of more than three trillion servings of foods that contain ingredients from them, there has not been a single documented case of injury to a person or disruption of an ecosystem.

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Only about a dozen such works were ever undertaken, and the Gillet sale contains three of them, by Louis Mascoussis, Victor Brauner and Picasso.

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More than three dozen countries have signed at least one of these protocols, making it more difficult for them now to return to capital punishment.

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About three dozen reporters and photographers crammed into the crowded hallway of a state office building in Juneau and hauled them away for review Friday morning.

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Between them, the three components of each of the planned buildings have about a dozen different plans for window configurations and setbacks, an effect the architects intended to help reflect the architectural diversity of the area.

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