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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A telephone directory has value because of the energy it saves a caller in finding a particular phone number.
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Diana and Carolyn would regularly while away a quiet evening ringing people with silly names who appeared in the telephone directory .
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Illiterates can not look up numbers in a telephone directory .
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The other method for collecting facts about potential purchasers is through published lists - like the telephone directory or the electoral register.
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Very thoughtfully, she turned to the telephone directory and looked up the name.