Just a small fraction of Mr Mulcaire's prodigious workload could provide the wherewithal for a lot of criminal prosecutions and civil suits.

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Many 7-footers who fill the lane are known for their blocking or rebounding ability, but despite being taken in the first round of the 2001 draft, out of Stanford, Collins has never averaged more than 6.1 rebounds a game (during the 2004-05 season at that), and he's never been a prodigious shot blocker.

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Muneo Suzuki is a backbench MP from the northern island of Hokkaido who was a prodigious fundraiser and a key player in the ruling party's richest and most powerful faction.

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He emerges from these pages as Germany's equivalent of America's Thomas Jefferson or Britain's William Ewart Gladstone: a polymath of prodigious energy and formidable intellectual power.

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In particular, the sunlight and wind speed are too weak to meet a meaningful portion of the region's prodigious energy needs ... at least with today's technology.

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To pass the time on one of his visits Miss Bailey's father recalled that as a child she had shown a prodigious talent sketching the animals in the farm attached to their Shropshire home.

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China's imports have ballooned this year, thanks to its prodigious stimulus spending and a rise in commodity prices.

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The poster's creator was Jon Whitcomb (1906-1988), a prominent American artist known for his prodigious drafting skills.

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Rooney usually finds a way to contribute even when he's not playing well, mainly because of his prodigious work rate.

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It is the most prodigious diversification ever for the world's largest producer of oil--and the state-owned Saudi company put a woman at the helm.

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