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There were two groups — a platoon of the commander's beach battalion and a platoon of amphibious engineers.

Last time there were two open races and a platoon of candidates with what looked like Shakespearean potential.

There were two groups a platoon of the commander's beach battalion and a platoon of amphibious engineers.

That skirmish, involving local residents, members of the British Home Guard and a platoon of Nazis masquerading as Englishmen, was a milestone in the defeat of Germany.

A fire engine and about three police cars pulled up to the end of the pier, and a platoon of people came running toward me".

With its 300-plus men and a platoon of Afghan soldiers, Company K was one of several units that attacked Marja by helicopter on Saturday.

In 2007, the war photographer Tim Hetherington accompanied the journalist Sebastian Junger to Afghanistan's Korengal Valley – in the north-east of the country, and a scene of intense fighting – to follow, and photograph, a platoon of US soldiers.

But when the game required her to find a grenade launcher and dispatch a platoon of hapless robots she did so quickly and efficiently.

We pre-moderated all comments, developed state-of-the-art moderation technology, and hired a platoon of human moderators -- a 40-person-strong team to supplement the technology and ensure a civil environment.

That's almost certainly a smaller sum than the Justice Department expended sending a Gulfstream V around the world and deploying a platoon of FBI agents to Afghanistan for the sting operation that apprehended the Lebanese business executives.

Imagine if instead of making Solo, the Star Wars executives had greenlit a Chewbacca prequel in which Chewie hunts and slaughters a platoon of Stormtroopers on a cloud forest planet.