Searching for photos WITHOUT a certain term?

Is there a way to search for photos that do NOT have a certain term? Basically I have a whole bunch of events, albums, etc. And then out of those, I have a subset of photos that I've posted to flickr, and those are in an album called Flickr. I did a batch change so all the descriptions say flickr. Now my computer is pretty full and I want to clear off some space (I have my whole photo library on an external HD so I'm not really deleting stuff, just deleting it off my laptop). I want to delete whole events but I'd like to keep the photos that are in the flickr album, since they're really my best photos. Can anyone think of an easy way to delete all photos in a bunch of events EXCEPT the ones that are marked as flickr photos?

I just wanted to report back, in case anyone else is interested, that Duplicate Annihilator worked perfectly. I told it to put "duplicate" in the description field of the duplicates, and "keep" in the corresponding original copy of the duplicate. It didn't tell me it was going to do this, but it ended up giving each one a number, so you could compare the two versions and make sure they were duplicates, or consider which one you really wanted to keep. Since I have over 17000 photos, I bought the full version and let it run for an hour or so, and it found a bunch of duplicates.

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