11.   The thick stack of essay questions that arrived in the mail would have been enough to make me feel isolated.

12.   Then one morning, as she was buying some cashews at a local gas station, she noticed the thick stack of bills in the cash register.

13.   They whooped when they saw a thick stack of flame, then a shiny jewel trailing a twisted white tail.

14.   Tuesday the panel released a thick stack of questions it had asked Herman, along with her replies.

15.   When McBride printed out a final draft of the memoir, he gave the thick stack of pages to his mother.

16.   At one point he held up a thick stack of papers.

17.   Valdivieso presented a thick stack of documents and two videotapes on Wednesday evening to the congressional Commission of Accusations, which will determine whether to open a formal investigation.