I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a monthly/annual etc allowance
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His father gives him a monthly allowance of £200.
an annual competition
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Last year he won the magazine’s annual photo competition.
an annual conference
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the biggest annual conference for teachers of English
an annual holiday (= a holiday you take every year )
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We were getting ready for our annual holiday in Cornwall.
an annual increase
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The company reported a 10% increase in pre-tax profits.
an annual inspection
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The aircraft was due for its annual inspection.
an annual meeting (= an important meeting held once a year )
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the annual meeting of the British Medical Association
an annual quota
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The US immigration laws imposed a strict annual quota for each country of origin.
an annual review
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There will be an annual review of your salary.
an annual survey
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Every council will be required to conduct an annual survey of residents.
an annual/a monthly fee
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An annual fee of £150 has been introduced.
an annual/monthly subscription
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An annual subscription to the magazine costs $20.
an annual/monthly/weekly budget
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The organization has an annual budget of $24 million.
an annual/monthly/weekly cycle (= the related events that repeat themselves every year, month etc )
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the annual cycle of planting and harvesting crops
an annual/monthly/weekly/daily total
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The Government plans to increase the annual total of 2,500 adoptions by up to 50%.
annual earnings
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His annual earnings are over £1 million.
annual growth
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There was an annual growth of 4%.
annual increments
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a salary of £18,000, with annual increments of 2.5%
annual inflation
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Annual inflation in 1990 was 8.1%.
annual leave (= an amount of time that you are allowed away from work for holidays etc )
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Annual leave is 22 days plus public holidays.
annual reunion
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an annual reunion
annual salary
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His annual salary is $200,000.
annual sales
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The company has annual sales of over $300 million.
annual turnover
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The illicit drugs industry has an annual turnover of some £200 billion.
sb’s annual income
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Brian’s annual income is around £43,000.
the annual/monthly cost
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This figure represents the annual cost of a loan.
the annual/monthly/weekly rent
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Our annual rent is just over $15000.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
budget
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The annual Budget or Finance Bill now contains a wide mixture of items.
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A school's annual budget share has to be managed by the governing body.
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As director, he will be responsible for over 4,000 kilometres of roads and an annual budget of £50 million.
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It is a small society and at that time had an annual budget of only £50,000.
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The unit employs 1,100 and has an annual budget of £33m.
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Our total annual budget is about £1,000.
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BFreeman wants to slash at least $ 400 million from an annual budget of $ 2. 4 billion.
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One eighth of Oxford's annual budget of £400m goes to the medical school.
conference
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It has long been known for its very good annual conferences , and for giving the Eleanor Farjeon Award.
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Speaking at it's annual conference in Newcastle, Co Down, he said it was real evidence of customer satisfaction.
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The annual conference is held in September on a particular theme, and attracts participants of high international standing.
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It carried a short item about the Social Democrats in annual conference at Northampton.
cost
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Edmonton recovered less than half its total annual costs from electricity sales last year, as you say.
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What is the annual cost of the inflation rider?
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In subsequent years, the number of patients in the trial were too small to compare mean annual costs .
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The total annual cost of fuel as calculated would then increase from 2. 07 to 2. 96 billion dollars.
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To this annual cost a multiplier appropriate to other forms of continuing future expense should be applied.
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In 1995, the annual cost of this extensive program was $ 987, 000.
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The average annual cost of use of the drugs is estimated at $ 15, 000.
event
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Until the late 1970s, this annual event occurred with a minimum of publicity.
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Its big annual event in Dade County, a banquet honoring the judiciary, just made me impatient.
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But that remains an annual event , with the sixth one coming up this August bank holiday.
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Last year, there were 450 people at the annual event .
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With the success of these first Championships, the organisers are hoping Blackbird Leys will become an annual event .
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Its success has spawned an annual event , drawing more than 40, 000 people.
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Maybe this annual event will become as well known for rare and fine records as it is for books.
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Looking behind the scenes at the organisation of this annual event , the video explains the history of the Popular Flying Association.
fee
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Once admitted, the solicitor is required to maintain a practising certificate, for which a substantial annual fee is charged.
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A temporary membership fee is $ 5, an annual fee about $ 25.
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The minimum investment is set at £500 with an initial charge of 5 percent plus an annual fee of 1 percent.
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Hotchkis's dinky ad budget translates into low annual fees .
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It charges an initial fee of 1% and a 1% annual fee.
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If you find a fee on your bill, call the toll-free number and ask to have the annual fee waived.
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Lloyds Bank was the first to introduce an annual fee of £12 for its Access cardholders in February of this year.
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Now more companies issue cards and many are willing to cut rates or waive annual fees to snare each others' customers.
growth
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The annual growth in concentration in the 1980s was 0.5 percent.
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It gives an annual growth rate of 2. 3 percent, according to analysts.
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This can be done on an annual basis with a bar graph which reveals the annual growth rate.
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The revised method also shaves half a percentage point off average annual growth during the four years of this economic recovery.
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In particular, books show an average annual growth rate of 8.25 percent while electronic information shows a rate of 20.30 percent.
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The overseas growth has powered the solar industry to a 15 percent annual growth rate for more than a decade.
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There was an annual growth rate of some 4 percent, while inflation continued to fall.
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The 1961-70 plan assumed an annual growth rate of 8. 3 per cent.
holiday
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As well as your annual holiday entitlement, the Company observes the usual statutory bank and public holidays.
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Elwin Silverstein, account executive with the Triad Insurance Group, enjoys the annual holiday brunch his employer hosts.
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It made the annual holiday more easily available to millions.
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The Midvale Park neighborhood sparks up a million little beacons with its annual holiday lighting contest.
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We offer a friendly working environment in Central London, 5 weeks annual holiday , private healthcare and additional benefits.
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For years, an important desire of many working people has been to take annual holidays in the sun.
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The statutory minimum annual holiday of five weeks was cut by two days to boost production.
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Tour operators have reported brisk sales since the New Year as people rush to book their annual holiday in the sun.
income
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You might have to produce evidence of a sky-high annual income .
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It has been reported in Fortune magazine that Oprah Winfrey has an estimated annual income of $ 40 million.
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For a relatively prosperous family, spending on cooking probably drops to less than 5 percent of the annual income .
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The big growth in fund investment seems to have come from baby boomer households with annual incomes above $ 50, 000.
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For a typical family of two adults, this is equivalent to an annual income of P£12 000.
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First, figure out 2. 5 percent of your annual income .
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Most people have a far better idea of the value of their house than of their annual income tax.
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Families with annual incomes as high as $ 24, 000&038;.
increase
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The five-year programme was budgeted to cost 22,750,000 million yen, at an average annual increase of around 3 percent.
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The number of state and federal inmates rose by 89, 707, which was the largest annual increase in history.
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Last autumn, the annual increases were slightly higher.
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The 1995 total marked the second annual increase in a row and exceeded five million for the first time in three years.
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Its annual increase in the 1980s was 1 percent.
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That is the highest annual increase in 15 years.
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The average annual increase over the past two decades is 3 %.
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The school tax will remain in effect for eight years, with 4 percent annual increases .
leave
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These holidays as with annual leave may be taken with the approval of the Board.
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The distribution of annual leave to nurses is of great importance to the individual nurse and to the employer.
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Some hospitals utilise temporary ward closures as an opportunity to give staff annual leave .
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And the gap will become wider if no extra staff are employed to cover junior doctors' annual leave .
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The manager should discuss the proposals for the coming year's maintenance programme before the allocation of annual leave to nurses.
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Are managers of nurses given information about annual leave arrangements of other staff?
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Failure to optimise the level of support to the caring team will undermine efforts to distribute annual leave evenly among nurses.
payment
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He may however increase the annual payment to wheat farmers under the five-year phase out plan of the old farming policy.
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Finally, assume that the annual payment is invested to earn an average effective annual rate of return equal to 12 percent.
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A scheme run by the Countryside Commission gives farmers an annual payment for neglected hedgerow.
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At that price an annual payment of £10 would be equivalent to a 20 percent rate of interest.
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An annual payment is made, the amount depending upon the animal concerned.
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The annual payments in 1934 were about £6and3/4; millions.
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But eurobonds make annual payments , and the appropriate method of calculating the yield to maturity is to use annual discounting.
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After this, the annual payments would decrease.
percentage
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The annual percentage rise in the Tax and Price Index.
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The yield is the annual percentage of return an investor earns on a stock.
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Some might say that typical annual percentage rates of around 24 percent are crippling.
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In the preceding example, the approximate annual percentage rate is 14. 6 percent.
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It may be that the courts would apply some sort of reasonable annual percentage .
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The annual percentage rise in the implicit gross domestic product deflator.
profit
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Bristol Rovers announced an annual profit of nearly £90,000 and disclosed they have £1.3m in the bank.
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Soon sales had increased by 17 percent and the center was turning a $ 111, 000 annual profit .
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But the Newcastle-based computer group Sage has surged ahead by 20p to 454p after a 32% annual profits increase.
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She said the company will report its first-ever annual profit in 1995, and will do even better this year.
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The small annual profits of the Edinburgh and Dundee clubs were interspersed with losses and no dividends were distributed to shareholders.
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The growers who are crying wolf today about the lack of water will post their annual profits in a few months.
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Reckitt &038; Colman also revealed annual profits at the top end of market expectations, but the price slipped 3p to 603p.
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Tokyo stock exchange-listed companies are forecasting annual profit growth of just 0.6 per cent between October and March 2001.
rate
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That points to an annual rate of 310%.
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The volatility of the underlying bond futures fell to an annual rate of 7. 95 percent.
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The national income had doubled since 1948; in the period 1951-73, the average annual rate of growth was 2.3 percent.
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M3 expanded at an annual rate of 1. 9 percent in the first 11 months of 1995.
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This is used by some banks to express the rate of interest as an annual rate.
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Its exports are rising at an annual rate of nearly 20 percent.
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Since gilts pay a fixed annual rate of interest, you would be locking in a higher return before the rate cut.
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Velocity had fallen to 2.2, an annual rate of decline of nearly 5 percent.
report
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Bennett has set out the supposed pros and cons in the annual report .
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Watching the detectives Today Ofsted publishes its annual report on schools.
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An annual report will be presented to the Lord Chancellor and will be laid before Parliament.
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The second man smiles, wags his index finger and picks up a copy of his company's annual report .
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The aim, as stated in the company's annual report is to support multiple servers.
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The annual report artificially parcels up the underlying economic trends into years.
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The authority must receive an annual report .
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Public companies have to publish an annual report and accounts.
revenue
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The top 10 percent of the people receive half the annual revenue .
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Assist-A-Care generates annual revenue of more than $ 6 million.
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He ranks just fourth in total assets, with a nine-billion-dollar annual revenue flow.
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C., with annual revenue of about $ 45 million.
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Yet Pitt during his first eight years managed to raise annual revenue from £12.5 million to £18.5 million.
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This was to he supplemented with one-third of the annual revenue .
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Together, the two companies will have $ 8. 4 billion in annual revenue .
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And the Wang derives almost half its annual revenue from Ballet rent, concessions and gimcrack sales.
revenues
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It has 17, 000 customers and $ 16 million in annual revenues .
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Record industry executives called Napster's offer inadequate for an industry with annual revenues of $ 40 billion.
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E $ 5 million in annual revenues .
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He said an agreement had been struck whereby Freeport would provide 1 percent of annual revenues for social development programs.
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Falcon Seaboard, a privately held company with annual revenues of nearly $ 300 million, employs about 300 employees.
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In August 1998, the company was reported to have had annual revenues in excess of $ 100 million.
review
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The Head of Department is responsible for the annual review of the fields sponsored by his or her department.
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It will provide supporting material for the annual review of implementation and, where necessary, clarify or supplement information received.
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Clinical assessments were estimated to take on average 9.8 minutes for a regular review and 13.4 minutes for an annual review.
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When your annual review is due, summarize all your achievements for the period and present them to your employer.
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There are also annual reviews with clients.
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On this model, annual reviews of fields continue to be produced, but are as spare as possible.
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They could quite easily form part of the agenda for the annual review of these institutions in their new roles.
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The port authority's latest annual review of the local economy reckons the city will lose another 32,000 jobs in 1993.
salary
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Every hour we are paying for the services of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at an annual salary of £63,047.
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With stock options added to his $ 700, 000 annual salary , McAllister makes more than a million dollars a year.
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Between 1987 and 1989 annual salaries for assistant solicitors rose by well over half, to £20,000-70,000.
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He reportedly earns an annual salary of $ 20 million.
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He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27.
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In the Federal Government, the starting annual salary for junior accountants and auditors was about $ 18, 700 in 1995.
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Ward sisters would get an additional £4.31 a week, giving them a new annual salary of £15,184.
sale
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The company reports 2000 annual sales of $ 4 million and $ 5.6 million cash on hand.
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These presentation were made during the annual sales conference.
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Its Rockport unit had about $ 314 million in annual sales .
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Cointreau is slightly smaller with annual sales in the region of £300 million.
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When the Petrini family sold the chain in 1987, it had annual sales of about $ 150 million a year.
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These groups were selected on the basis of their annual sales and total assets.
subscription
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You produce a good magazine each month; the readers' letters alone are worth the annual subscription .
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The annual subscription fee is £8.
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Please find enclosed a cheque for £12 annual subscription for an organisation.
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The Association was open to anyone resident in the island who was prepared to pay the annual subscription of one guinea.
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With inflation an annual subscription of £25 is not enough!
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As you may know, we charge an annual subscription of £32.50.
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The annual subscription is, incidentally, an allowable expense and can be paid by instalment if necessary.
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It is updated quarterly and annual subscriptions are priced at £1,000.
turnover
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Some inner city practices now have annual turnovers over 30%.
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The level of business exported currently stands at 20 percent of Rolls Wood Group's annual turnover .
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He has been with the group, which has an annual turnover of £8-9m, for the past seven years.
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All in all, around £3.5 billion of the company's annual turnover might be chopped out.
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On the domestic market, total annual turnover of £433 billion was the highest since 1987.
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But he pointed out that his annual turnover was well above £1m.
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Professional villainy now boasts an annual turnover of £14 billion.
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He will support seven managers and staff, dealing with businesses with individual annual turnover of more than £1m.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her annual income is about $75,000.
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the annual school homecoming dance
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He announced his decision at the annual Board of Trustees' retreat on September 10.
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In the first half of the 1970s, the economy was growing at an annual rate of 7 percent.
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It gives an annual growth rate of 2. 3 percent, according to analysts.
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Much to the scientists' surprise, summer conditions left visible annual strata.
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The plan was to avoid annual parliamentary wrangles.
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The yield is the annual percentage of return an investor earns on a stock.
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To try to cut down on internecine warfare, Mr Florio oversaw annual meetings at which he encouraged publishers to work together.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
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P 500-stock index and the Dow Jones industrial average produced average annual 10. 5 percent returns.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He is correct, Gedge still has Beano and Dandy annuals filed next to his records and many other souvenirs.
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He would never scribble in his annuals and had them all in order.
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In addition to the above, annuals are normally covered by standing orders, which eliminate repetitive clerical work.
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The flower bed can then be augmented with annuals later in the year when the bulbs are over.