But I do get a press card, and a sheaf of print-outs from various parties and candidates.

ECONOMIST: Elections drive a man to drink

Is it any wonder that you cant leave a doctors office in Tokyo without a sheaf of prescriptions?

FORBES: Bad medicine

He had a sheaf of possible trials and treatments printed from the Internet.

NEWYORKER: Letting Go

Case in point: Teresa Burga, a Peruvian artist who compiled a self-portrait from drawings and a sheaf of medical records.

WSJ: A Lively Art Scene Aids Istanbul's Biennial

Cambodia had to wait a year for admission, after which the organisation's logo a sheaf of ten rice stalks finally made sense.

ECONOMIST: Banyan

It also demanded a sheaf of irrelevant documents, such as Mr Ali's bank and tax records for the past two years.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

Brinker was issued a bare metal desk and a sheaf of paper.

FORBES: The Science of Small

Plaintively, he flourishes a sheaf of polite letters to Sir John suggesting meetings, and another sheaf of slightly less polite letters brushing him off.

ECONOMIST: Face value

Pakistan's GEO TV showed footage of a stocky man trying to stuff a sheaf of ballots into the ballot box in Karachi, just a few steps away from a policeman.

WSJ: Karachi Beset by Political Strife

Dressed in khaki, silver stars glittering on his open collar, chewing on a meerschaum pipe, he ambled to the center of the stage with a sheaf of notes clutched in his hand.

NEWYORKER: Rat Beach

He did not bring books to class, never a sign of the textbook or a sheaf of notes, and his shambling discourses made us feel that we were becoming what he saw before him, an amorphous entity.

NEWYORKER: Midnight in Dostoevsky