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  • n  the quantity contained in a bucket

  • It too contained a bucketful of earth wrapped in plastic, and apparently nothing else.
  • While that may seem unsurprising--certainly a brush with mortality, being rushed to the hospital and having to take a bucketful of medications could throw anyone for a loop--there .
  • So poor are most who live in the Delta that some are prepared to risk their lives for a bucketful of fuel.
News & Articles

  • Child care squeeze to hit hundreds of NKY families
    At Treasure House Child Development Center, year-old toddlers amiably line up for outside time. Preschoolers are finishing up on the playground. It's water day on Tuesday, and one little girl pours a bucketful over her head and squeals.
    July 1, 2013 - The Cincinnati Enquirer
  • Comments
    “Have one.” It’s Luciano. He’s sitting with a bucketful of Dos Equis. I’ve just sat up at the bar. He’s at6 tne next table, under the peg bvoard scattered with pictures of past parties here.
    June 29, 2013 - San Diego Reader
  • SURVEY: 60% Of Self-Proclaimed Vegetarians Ate Meat Yesterday
    Pretty much every vegetarian has been accused of eating meat on the sly — which makes sense, since most meat eaters can’t picture life without steak (or hamburgers , or hot dogs , or bacon ). But if you accuse a vegetarian of pounding down veal burgers during their off hours, chances are you’ll be met with some serious kale-fueled rage that’ll take a bucketful of bacon to forget.
    June 26, 2013 - Business Insider
Quotes

  • Bruce Buck in Telegraph.co.uk
    It is not easy to sum up briefly the five years since Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea,Buck told The Daily Telegraph. "But clearly Roman secured the long-term financial future of Chelsea, brought a winning mentality and a bucketful of...
  • Paul Sturrock in The Herald
    After the 137 Pataudi told me that I was hitting well, but the ball was not racing to the fence and I should lift dumb bells to strengthen my wrist. I lifted bucketful of water at home. Well, I enjoy the batting of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid... Gundappa Viswanath http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundappa_Viswanath&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEoBjCfP9VnUA3qumtw99PCHBkXlA The Hindu http://www.google.com/url?q=http://beta.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/article21931.ece&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFnBAMW2crsfaSlLH7IR_6VIv-29Q Sep 18, 2009 13245 18018 bucketful Sturrock said: I pride myself on normally having teams that are hard to play against and hard to score against. But we are losing goals by the bucketful at this minute."

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