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I’ve heard that idea a thousand times before. It’s old hat. Can’t you think of anything new and different that we could try?

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Mrs. Crowell is convinced she sees ghosts in the halls, and that they talk to her. I think she’s off her rocker.

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Tom is a bit of an old fuddy-duddy. He refuses to get a mobile phone or a computer.

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I felt as though I didn’t belong with the group of people at the party. I was odd man out.

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Melissa didn’t know how many people had called, but guessing off the top of her head, she said about a hundred.

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Mr. Turner got his job through the old-boy network, which consisted of the friends he knew when he was at the university.

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Most of Kevin’s suggestions are sound and practical but a few of them are really off the wall. I wonder how he comes up with them.

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I keep all my odds and ends in this drawer, but it’s becoming so full of junk that I can’t find anything anymore.

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I can’t give you an exact figure for the number of students we have at the university, but off the cuff I’d say about 25,000.

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Alex has never followed the crowd or done things just to please others. His way in life has been off the beaten path.