noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an estate car British English (= one with a door at the back and folding seats )
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Once you have children, an estate car is very useful.
council estate
estate agent
estate car
estate tax
fourth estate
housing estate
industrial estate
real estate agent
real estate
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a fall in the value of real estate
trading estate
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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Nevertheless it was the great estates of absentee landowners that gave Andalusia its reputation.
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The days of the great estates are no more.
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Apparently he has a great estate beyond the Sierra Nevada - big hacienda or some such thing.
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The house, centrepiece of a great estate , had once been the home of a Maharajah.
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After the Barons' War, a number of feudal magnates with great local estates were appointed as Forest wardens.
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Some of them supplemented wages from the great estates with tiny holdings, where they were lucky enough to have them.
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If it could not, then its claim to be one of the great estates in the land was greatly reduced.
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The great estates were not always farmed directly by their owners.
industrial
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On the bus home she passed, as usual, the new industrial estate .
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The Gabriel-Havez school in Creil where they live stands in the heart of the town's industrial estate .
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The industrial estate was planned by the railway engineer Joseph Locke.
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To the north, the Grand Union Canal drew the line before the industrial estate .
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It is an agricultural area, growing roots and grain, with milling facilities on the modern industrial estate .
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The whole business here at Miss Bedwelty's seemed far less daunting than it did out on the industrial estate .
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There have been a number of burglaries at the Springtown and Pennyburn industrial estates .
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Newton Aycliffe's industrial estate has suffered a series of burglaries and car crime this week.
large
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In addition to the palatial and leafy suburbs, there are areas of inner-city terraced housing awaiting redevelopment and large outlying council estates .
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Likewise, older people whose children are grown may not need life insurance unless they expect to leave a large estate .
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They relate in fact much more closely to economic and agricultural units, albeit often within larger estates and holdings.
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The South, in the early l960s, had only rice, large estates and the open sea.
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The Sinhalese were however generally unwilling to work as labourers on large estates .
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An Institute of Agrarian Reform was founded to break up large estates and redistribute them to landless labourers.
legal
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It is therefore abolished as a legal estate .
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Lord Wellworthy can enforce the covenant only whilst he retains the legal estate in the Stately Mansion Hotel.
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Where the proprietor of the legal estate has died, the sellers will be the personal representatives of the estate.
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The Statute of Wills 1540 gave testators power to create future legal estates by their wills.
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One might imagine, for instance, that it has turned equitable estates and rights into legal estates and rights.
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Estates in futuro Before 1 January 1926 there were three main varieties of legal estates in futuro.
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Notice should be given if the trustees of the legal estate are persons other than the husband or wife.
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Equity only protects the bonafide purchaser for value of a legal estate and so the rule should be of no application.
local
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Information from local estate agents shows the housing market to remain stagnant.
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Some local real estate developers think the 200 to 300 homes per year estimate is unrealistic.
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Some conveyancers encourage local estate agents to forward details of a new transaction before a sale is negotiated.
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A similar assault can be observed in real estate as companies such as Century 21 gobble up local real estate agencies.
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The other method of entry to the Rowdies was by joining one's mates from school or local housing estate .
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This will bring the benefits of home ownership within the reach of more people and introduce more diversity in local authority estates .
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He works on our local trading estate and I see him every day after school and at weekends.
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Those who settle find it hard to create a community, according to Joyce Weis, a local estate agent.
new
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On the bus home she passed, as usual, the new industrial estate .
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On a new estate , there may be nothing.
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After 1945 vast new estates , mainly of semi-detached houses, began to extend further out.
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A lot of it was new estates - Well, same as Newtown.
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And residents of the new Carrick Hill estate are delighted with the changes taking place.
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What a good idea to build us a new housing estate so that we can pay property tax!
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This time it was Simon Thorpe, the new estate manager.
real
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Since then Sotheby's business has spread into less traditional auction house areas, including real estate .
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Lawrence invested in real estate and golfed with Bob Hope.
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Staff communities will be created connected by job function, without the same need to occupy expensive real estate .
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The dictionary prompted real estate consultant Joel Ascetto to design a three-hour course to help Rhode Island real estate agents.
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J., real estate broker Terry Gamble.
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Republican Senator james Inhofe of Oklahoma, who was a real estate developer.
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At least in Baja California, real estate should remain a prime factor in building new economic muscle.
■ NOUN
agency
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A similar assault can be observed in real estate as companies such as Century 21 gobble up local real estate agencies .
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Low cost endowment business through building society and estate agency connections up 19% despite reduced mortgage lending.
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The position John is applying for is as a trainee with a real estate agency .
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Nationwide announced that 300 redundancies will be made when it closes 58 of its 361 estate agency branches.
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More than 10% of its mortgages now spring from its estate agencies .
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In 1987 they began to acquire estate agencies .
agent
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It will Bteach real estate agents about the customs of minority groups.
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Homeowners who want to sell their homes without a real estate agent can now advertise their residential properties free on the Internet.
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Not an estate agent , a valuer, a lawyer or a property slump in sight.
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The real estate agent said one thing.
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Ask your estate agent to send a representative with potential buyers.
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Real estate agents are independent contractors and can change offices at their discretion.
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Parents that move into a new area will often ask estate agents about schools in the neighbourhood.
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In a few moments the other participant in the sequence they were shooting would come, the estate agent from Sudbury.
broker
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J., real estate broker Terry Gamble.
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Faison last week hired commercial real estate broker Cushman&038;.
car
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If an estate car tempts you, it could pay to choose one with the option of an extra row of seats.
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A large estate car or van will be needed to transport the coffin, and four to six people to carry it.
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Off we set, in the estate car , for Liverpool Street station, London.
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An estate car provides even more luggage space.
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You can use an estate car .
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Driven unladen, estate cars are often stiff-legged.
country
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The story went that after the tragedy Godolphin had retired to his country estate , and never again ventured beyond its perimeters.
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They had private homes or apartments, country estates , special restaurants and shops.
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The country estate covers an area of 106 acres, to be developed in phases.
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He has a job as well, selling country estates for Sotheby's real estate arm.
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In 1724 the University Garden needed more space and Boerhaave used his newly purchased country estate at nearby Oud-Poelgeest as an extension.
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I first met Wells at a weekend party at Max Beaverbrook's country estate in the late 1930s.
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When they say they love their country , do they mean their country estates ?
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I was staying on a large country estate , taking part in a week's music course.
developer
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Interbrew had spent most of 1997 negotiating with Toronto real estate developer Murray Frum.
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The real customers of the Department of Housing and Urban Development have not been poor urban dwellers, but real estate developers .
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Several venture capital funds, former owners and other real estate developers reportedly have shown interest in the landmark.
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Republican Senator james Inhofe of Oklahoma, who was a real estate developer .
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They were friends of his, real estate developers with no expertise whatsoever in media, much less multimedia.
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Some local real estate developers think the 200 to 300 homes per year estimate is unrealistic.
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Nevertheless, real estate developers passionately promoted moving to Los Angeles as the secular equivalent of being born again.
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The national association of large real estate developers sent its president to assist the process.
housing
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Neighbourhood houses could soon be set up on many housing estates in Darlington, Coun Bill Dixon said.
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It was tempting to see its potential as another fun palace or shopping centre or - this being Liverpool - housing estate .
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The Housing Act 1988 gave further encouragement to the breakup of the large housing estates remaining under local authority control.
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Some were corporation housing estates , reservations for thee rehabilitation of the working class.
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Seven Football League players from the same Trimdon Village housing estate will share a table.
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The 44-year old was found at 8am lying in Birkhall Parade, in Aberdeen's Mastrick housing estate .
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Read in studio Work has begun to demolish a council housing estate built almost seventy years ago.
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The other method of entry to the Rowdies was by joining one's mates from school or local housing estate .
investment
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I have no hope of being a big legal giant-in fact, my living comes largely from my commercial real estate investments .
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Developers Diversified is a real estate investment trust that acquires, owns and manages shopping and business centers.
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New loans now typically come from large Wall Street investment houses and real estate investment trusts that favor large builders.
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Other conservative buys include real estate investment trusts, utility stocks and tax-free municipal bonds.
market
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The real estate market in the fire zone is slow, and the ultimate sales prices are discouraging.
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The real estate market is not unaffected but it is not seriously hampered.
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The real estate market , the largest component of the local economy, has grown to record levels.
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Payne specialized in converting apartments to condominiums when it was considered cutting edge in the residential real estate market .
tax
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The second-round effects of the estate tax may be seen in other areas.
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Alderman Keane keeps his brother on the powerful board of real estate tax appeals.
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Buy enough life insurance to cover your estate taxes .
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In fact, because of the way income and estate taxes work, many experts caution about overuse of tax-deferred vehicles.
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Last year, the city instituted a real estate tax .
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It also imposed an estate tax .
■ VERB
build
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There's a place on the edge of the town where they'd built a council estate somewhere back in the fifties.
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Today, he has built a successful real estate business for him-self.
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They'd built estates after the war with no amenities at all and they didn't learn from that either.
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Sedimentrich runoff from logging, road building and real estate development has been filling the lake with nitrogen and phosphorous.
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He built numerous estate buildings, including the Bottle Lodges which cost around £9,000, and was constantly in debt.
buy
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They were both businessmen, they both bought and sold real estate , and they both dabbled in other investments.
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After some time in London, during which he bought an estate at Blackheath, he returned to his native Ayrshire.
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Thienpont bought the estate in 1979; until then it hardly existed in its present form.
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In 1736, James Macrae bought the estate and mansion house of Monkton.
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In fact, there is another plan afoot, which makes it foolish to be buying an estate .
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Neeld decided to become a landlord, and began buying estates in Somerset and West Wiltshire.
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Petrashevskii's proposal that merchants be allowed to buy populated estates hardly bespoke a passion for social revolution.
house
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The Manchester site, Collyhurst, is a post-war social housing estate on the north-east edge of the city centre.
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The suburban housing estates were complete and the lawns were in.
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Hugh with his hand on the glass, the housing estates below and beyond.
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And cleaners came in from the housing estates , silent with mops, lifting chairs, thinking of dinners, emptying bins.
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And on housing estates all along the line, residents came out to watch the strange scene.
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That excellent housing estate in Madrid.
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Two explosions have left large craters alongside the rail line close to two housing estates at the western edge of Newry.
inherit
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Granville eventually inherited the estate and his connection with Stoke Poges may be of more than usual significance.
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When Presley turned 25, she inherited an estate currently worth more than $ 100 million.
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His father had died and he bought the property with money he'd inherited from the estate .
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First, they want to eliminate taxes entirely for people fortunate enough to inherit estates of $ 1 million.
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He accepted the arguments of an independent actuary that policyholders' realistic expectation they should benefit from inherited estates was limited.
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Two of the daughters, Mary and Annabella, eventually inherited the Scrope estates .
live
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Harry Secombe was the third child of a none-too-successful commercial traveller living on a council estate near Swansea.
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Then business diminished, and the partners persuaded Stratford to live off his Prescott estate in Gloucestershire.
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For some years he lived on his estate at Ballinastow in county Wicklow, where he was high sheriff in 1835.
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You are not bothered whether the house is detached or semi-detached, but you do not want to live on an estate .
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People living on the estate couldn't believe their eyes when they saw their new neighbour.
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News of the rape has appalled parents living on nearby estates .
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Skerne Park Community Action Group was set up in 1989 to improve the quality of life for people living on the estate .
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This District Discount will keep down bills for elderly people and many low-income inner-city residents living on large estates .
own
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If any stores were not wanted by members then they would be added to Costcutter's company owned estate , he added.
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Later the de Sewardby family, who took their name from the village, owned the estate .
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The vicarage is the only house not owned by the estate .
sell
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It found itself unable to prevent the pomeshchiks from buying and selling their estates and rapidly establishing defacto hereditary rights of ownership.
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The company will offset the losses by selling stocks and real estate .
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He has a job as well, selling country estates for Sotheby's real estate arm.
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Other ventures have failed, but now she wants to sell real estate .
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So Patels are hard to sell real estate to.
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H-P officials said the company did not expect that any shares would need to be sold to pay estate taxes.
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During the daytime hours, Monday through Friday, Dad sold real estate .
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They were both businessmen, they both bought and sold real estate , and they both dabbled in other investments.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sink estate/school
the fourth estate
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Jane has her own house on a neat housing estate in the south-east.
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Mrs. Graham left her entire estate to her three children.
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They live in a block of flats on a bleak council estate .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After serving in the army during the Napoleonic wars, Széchenyi turned to the management of his estates.
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And they are not embracing some of the new strategy of insurance, real estate , tax minimization, and banking.
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Apparently he has a great estate beyond the Sierra Nevada - big hacienda or some such thing.
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Armoured vans patrol Manchester estate Armoured vans are patrolling an estate in Manchester following three separate shotgun attacks.
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He walked between the pines and the cactus as if he were out for a stroll round his estate after dinner.
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His professional reputation as a respected real estate expert also has been tarnished, the suit alleges.
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No sheep are at the estate this day.
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Other ventures have failed, but now she wants to sell real estate .