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About six months ago a restaurant nearby was doing land-office business.

But now Internet security consultants find themselves doing a land-office business.

In eight weeks, the word spread, and the restaurant was enjoying a land-office business.

A shop at the exit does a land-office business selling towels.

Near the tollbooths, the men who sell newspapers did land-office business.

The supermarket next door was doing a land-office business in Coors beer.

Meanwhile, Barnes & Noble has been doing a land-office business.

We're doing a land-office business in birth control.

What a land-office business those semis were doing!

Despite the occasional headlight and 5-degree cold, the instant privy did land-office business.

Their restaurants are doing land-office business as Bostonians happily rediscover eating out.

He stops only to buy a sheaf of roses from a vendor in the park, who is doing land-office business.

The call houses that specialize in sixteen-year-old virgins are doing a land-office business.

They are doing a land-office business.

Our East End sod farms and tree nurseries would do a land-office business.

"He never misses a boom town, he does a land-office business, then moves on.

The rush for land after the Civil War popularized the phrase (along with doing a land-office business).

For generations, Lundy's did a land-office business serving local fish, which it took pains not to disturb.

On this evening, there were only a few Ralph Nader supporters, and they did not seem to be doing a land-office business.

To his left a souvenir stand was doing a land-office business in film, soft drinks and ice-cream bars.

And in New York it's doing land-office business despite the X rating, or perhaps because of it.

Southern California has few native plants, and in the early decades of the century, nurseries did a land-office business importing specimens.

"We're doing a land-office business," said Bob Kahn, the store's owner.

Sellers of firewood report land-office business.

That situation is changing rapidly, and in the meantime, the stores that sell organic food are doing a land-office business.