Sentence examples for lay a fair from inspiring English sources

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Silkies lay a fair number of cream-colored eggs, but production is often interrupted due to their extreme tendency to go broody; a hen will produce 100 eggs in an ideal year.

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"In summer they lie down a fair amount," she said.

Ladbrokes and bet365 have invariably been willing to lay me a fair-size wager, but they are in the minority.

A man at the fair had an orangutan in a cage and was offering $50 to anyone who could lay a hand on the ape.

Like one of those loaves, "Family Tree" can lay claim to a fair share of ingredients that sound admirable: standing up for principle, defending the environment, overcoming adversity, valuing friendship and coming to understand that everybody is good at something.

Public shareholders simply trade outstanding stock, but taxpayers and workers make risky investments in the innovation process and should be able to lay claim to a fair share of the returns.

The four members of Satanicide play heavy metal, seasoning it with elaborate lies and a fair amount of purposely stupid behavior.

Helen Hong, a television producer and stand-up comedian of indeterminate age — "I could tell you 27, but I'd be lying" — had given a fair share of those services a shot and gotten pretty much nowhere.

Pearl, Broad, Grand and Prince lay beside Fair and Crown and the "Fresh Water" pond.

But here lies a problem: historical fiction has been damned as a lesser talent, a repository for unnecessary emotion, inaccuracy and a fair sprinkling of anachronisms.

Peter Moffat's script is so heavy-handed by this point that it's easy to lay good money on a fair few things: it can't be a coincidence that the creepy investigator Alex Brady, the Woodward to poor Julia's Bernstein, is introduced as lying outside the newspaper's jurisdiction, not given a contract so he can "behave badly".

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