Learned by Reading
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Having lived in The Netherlands for 8 odd years (Amsterdam, in Red Light District, above a coffee – shop :)) I can definitely relate to this funny viral from holiday specialists Zonnetour. nl.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It is managed by Vanguard, and has about 400,000 in gains over the past twenty odd years.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Tokyo is also a huge show, and it runs on a bi – annual basis, split between passenger vehicles on odd years and commercial rides on even years.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
After numerous years odd – jobbing, Graham began acting in theater, radio, film, and television.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
(Two years from now seems odd, but I’m guessing the 2009 pick may be tied up in the Pacman Jones trade.)
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(. .) (-RRB- -RRB-)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
(Two years from now seems odd, but I’m guessing the 2009 pick may be tied up in the Pacman Jones trade.)
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(. .) (-RRB- -RRB-)))
In the British National Corpus:
My tutor was saying to me that when he did his degree twenty odd years ago, he knew everything there was to know about chemistry, but because it’s growing, because it’s new, you’ve always got to keep up with it, whereas history doesn’t change, does it, apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year; with chemistry it’s constantly changing, you’ve always got something new to learn, you never stop really.
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(: ;)
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
The Transat Jacques Vabre is a major date on the calendar, taking place every other year in odd years.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Some 50 odd years ago.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
For the past three hundred – odd years they have been living incognito among mortals, taking unglamorous jobs and living in near – poverty.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
For the shotgun events only, there is an additional World Championship competition in odd – numbered years.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Though I love the country, I think Canada has wasted much of the last 40 – odd years in navel – gazing on issues such as the language question.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Yeah for some odd years he’s been driving with no ID.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I think the last sec. album I bought was Dream a Little Dream in high school, which was 10 some odd years ago.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
He’ll call his mom for washing machine advice, because she’d kept him clean for 20 some odd years, so she’s gotta have some special Laundry Mojo.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
) Hearts lose 4–0 at home to Dundee United, an occurrence which I don’t think has ever happened in the 20 – odd years I’ve been following them…
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The fact that some thirty odd years later, racial divide is informing an essay speaking to how societal seperation is ingrained in culture, only highlights the need for the message.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
That is not to say that you can *n’t branch out and learn to cast spells (even at character creation), but that fighter will never be as good a Wizard as the chap who started with 20 – odd years of being a Wizard.
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(. .)))
In the British National Corpus:
And the effect of this, over the last two thousand years odd, upon the intelligent observer, has been to produce a mood, or even a philosophy, of scepticism.
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(. .)))
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