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According to NRC reports analyzed by Amos, an average of 14 gallons per day had been spilling from that rig for several months, says Amos.

From Scientific American • Apr. 21, 2011

The landholders were not forbidden to return if they renounced their old errors and acknowledged the justice of the cause for which the blacks had been spilling their blood for twelve years.

From The West Indies and the Spanish Main by Rodway, James