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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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During our meal the restaurant had begun to fill up with the pre-theatre crowd, Brighton burghers and their wives.
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Entire villages turned out for the spectacle and in Györ, the Bishop himself headed the assembled burghers.
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In general, such luxury items occur only rarely in Lincoln and the owners may well have been relatively wealthy burghers.
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Most burghers who voted for the right did so to express uncertainty and fear about the looming costs of unification.
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Opposition by burghers, who feared for the fishing, ensured that Plymouth Dock, later Devonport, was later chosen instead.
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The burghers of Birmingham also reckon the chevron-shaped symbol looks like a two-finger salute.
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The result was stiff, distant even, and the three or four burghers bowed even lower.
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When the Kyburgers sold Burgdorf to Bern in 1384 the townsfolk had already acquired burgher rights.