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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Better still, if you live alone, have an ex-directory number.
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Hopefully, he looked first for Rose Hilaire in the telephone book; no such name, so she must be ex-directory .
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It's a well-known fact that in Knutsford the Fire-Brigade is ex-directory .
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Luce tore it open and read: When I tried to ring you I was told that the Diomede number is ex-directory .
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Repeatedly she found he had rung the private, ex-directory line at Camilla's home Middlewich House.
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The main focus will be on ex-directory numbers, which mean that published directories are incomplete as listings of telephone-owning households.
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They are constantly changing their numbers, or going ex-directory to stave off threatening calls.
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Through telephone enquiries he discovered that there were plenty of Carrows and Tremaynes in the county and not a few who were ex-directory .