Word: lot
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...words of coach Ben Zivkovic, "A lot of bouts given away and a lot of bouts taken away [by the officials]" kept the Harvard men's fencing team back in 11th place among the 13 teams that competed Saturday and Sunday in the ECAC fencing tournament...
There's something for almost everybody in this overly long (300 pages), linguistically contorted and incredibly redundant report. Commission members waded through a lot of evidence before finalizing their recommendations, and they want us to know it. Stock arguments and phrases are beaten to death; even the most ridiculous alternative plans are debated in agonizing detail. Eventually, however, an argument takes shape...
Assistant City Manager David Vickery said the bill, sent to the State House last month by the City Council, would prevent institutions from buying property and then converting it from taxable housing property to tax-exempt "educational uses." "It is getting a little bit ridiculous," Vickery said, adding "a lot of property is being taken off the tax rolls...
...have a lot of respect for Paul--he has done a tremendous amount for me," Becky Tung, top-ranked racquetwoman and one of the country's most improved players over the last two years, said yesterday. "But lately I felt I was stagnating, and I know others [on the squad] felt the same," she added...
...make sure that everyone knows that this is, after all, a Sherlock Holmes movie, Clark crams a lot of that vintage Holmesiana so dear to the hearts of Conan Doyle fans and provides the audience with radical plots, mysterious cults, rot in high places, missing persons, plus, of course, fog, cobblestones...