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‘A volume can be slim.’

[⟨det volume.n⟩ slim.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A very slim volume indeed.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A Season of Night (University of Mississippi Press) is a slim volume that follows the author’s post – Katrina experiences.
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In Wikipedia:

He published a slim volume of poetry in 1944 and had his first exhibition at the Gallerie Arc en Ciel.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

This volume is slim and lightweight, precisely sized for the outside pocket of a student’s backpack.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The volume is slim, with about a fifth of the pages reserved for candid color photographs.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It’s usually college freshmen who suddenly take up the French existentialist’s slim volume, and then usually to impress some literature major with wavy hair.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In 2001, a small Virginia publisher issued a slim volume of his poems, called “Heartsongs.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The volume is slim, with about a fifth of the pages reserved for candid color photographs.
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In Wikipedia:

Maulana Muhammad Hussain Azad compiled a slim volume of his poetry with the help of his pupils like Hafiz, Veeran, Anwar and Zaheer that contains twelve hundred couplets of Ghazals and fifteen Eulogies.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I placed the slim volume back on the windowsill, smiling to myself.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It takes a skilled hand to handle this many issues in one slim volume, and unfortunately, I don’t think Chavisa Woods quite has that skill.
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In Wikipedia:

He is best known for his opera librettos, but also published a slim volume of verses for music, entitled “Pagine d ’Album” (Milano, Ricordi, 1885); many more of his poems intended to be set to music were published in the “Gazzetta Musicale di Milano”.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I sat up and read May Sarton’s As We Are Now on Friday night which is a slim, intense little volume about the frustrations of aging.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Neither will be disappointed by Judenhass, a slim volume that Sim has published himself under his long – running Aardvark – Vanaheim imprint.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Beginning, intermediate, and advanced student alike can certainly benefit from the writings contained in this slim volume.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Yea, his slim volume with its understated wrapper Bathes in the blare of the brightly jacketed Hitler’s War Machine, His unmistakably individual new voice Shares the same scrapyart with a forlorn skyscraper Of The Kung – Fu Cookbook, His honesty, proclaimed by himself and believed by others, His renowned abhorrence of all posturing and pretense, Is there with Pertwee’s Promenades and Pierrots – One Hundred Years of Seaside Entertainment, And (oh, this above all) his sensibility, His sensibility and its hair-like filaments, His delicate, quivering sensibility is now as one With Barbara Windsor’s Book of Boobs, A volume graced by the descriptive rubric “My boobs will give everyone hours of fun’ ’.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In 1947, in a slim volume entitled?
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In Wikipedia:

Waterhouse left behind a slim volume of poems, published posthumously in December 1916, entitled Rail – Head and other poems.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In less capable hands, the subject matter could be a real bore, but he’s able to keep things moving at a breezy pace and the slim volume was consumed in just a couple of sittings.
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Queried on 2013-06-20.