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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alice Foley, growing up in Bolton during the 1890s, remembered the plague of houseflies emanating from the privies in summer.
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Cluster flies are bristly gray insects, about five times bigger than the ordinary housefly , Musca domestica.
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Even as I listened to him, mosquitoes, fat as houseflies, feasted on my legs.
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Thousands of individuals, each not quite as big as a housefly make up the swarm.