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certain allowances for education grants etc
Some members of the Royal Commission made certain allowances for education grants, etc., which it would be useless to parallel now.
— from The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers

completed and fully equipped galley every
At one time this arsenal employed 16,000 workmen, and during the great struggle of the Republic with the Turks at the end of the sixteenth century it turned out a completed and fully equipped galley every day for a hundred days in succession.
— from Ancient and Modern Ships, Part 1: Wooden Sailing Ships by Holmes, George Charles Vincent, Sir

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