If the records existed at all it would take days poring through dusty files in the basement to locate them.

What do you expect to find in the dusty old files, apart from context?

Still, I kept my nose in the dusty files.

Their beliefs are not based on disinformation from dusty files.

Was some bureaucrat going through dusty files looking for easy cases to run up deportation numbers?

Ms. Robins has accomplished more than just an assembly of dusty files.

That does not mean holding up a dusty file and saying "See?

Nothing new" she complained as she went through dusty files that were more than thirty years old.

Then we can go through all the dusty, musty files on the banks.

When your father called and gave me the date of your birth, I went back to my dusty files.