noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
50%/100 per cent etc cotton
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These lightweight trousers are made from 100% cotton.
ten pence/50-cent etc piece
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Have you change for a 50-cent piece?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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increase
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When union reps sought an 8-cent increase , they and hundreds of other workers were sacked.
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When the petrol situation started to worsen earlier this week the site saw a 300 per cent increase in traffic.
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The bank's operating margin was below the 20.8 per cent increase registered in September.
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Tecan, the biotechnology group, was up 2.9 per cent after announcing a 42 per cent increase in sales in 2000.
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Presumably that's to help counter the added heat-generation of the 128 per cent increase in the number of transistors.
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And Halfords has reported a 500 per cent increase in sales of petrol cans.
stake
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It has an 8 per cent stake , and has admitted working with Gazprom.
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The company had held a 24 per cent stake in the consortium.
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account
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The gender split has also narrowed, with females accounting for 46 per cent of Internet users.
charge
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Extracted hazardous materials Crec charges its clients 82 cents per kilogram to dismantle computers in a factory once used to manufacture them.
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If you sink into the red, it will charge 10 per cent .
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For example, on a £75,000 loan, six months of interest charged at 6 per cent is more than £2,000.
fall
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They find that the number of children in poverty has fallen by 35.5 per cent .
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February unleaded gasoline fell 0. 46 cent to 58. 19 cents a gallon.
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The average shortfall of income beneath the poverty line for poor children has also fallen by 31.7 per cent .
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Its shares fell 34 per cent to 480p after the group warned that second-half margins had slipped.
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Sakura Bank fell 3.4 per cent to Y648.
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The debt ratio fell to 65.9 per cent , down 19.4 percentage points from 85.3 per cent last year.
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Peacock fell 9 per cent to 95p, while New Look ended the day more than 8 per cent lower at 72p.
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Applications for the priesthood fell by 85 per cent .
grow
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Boots the Opticians grew 0.8 per cent in the period, with like-for-like sales up 1.2 per cent.
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Another five years on, it is approaching £10m, and grew by 65 per cent over the last year.
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Woolwich, another mutual convert, also offers savers the chance to let their money grow at 0.5 per cent each year.
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If they grow by 4.6 per cent , you will receive £1 for every 85p invested.
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Like-for-like sales for the group for the nine weeks to December 30 grew by 4.5 per cent .
pay
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Savers who have made deposits between £3,000 and £5,999 over the past two years are paid 6.35 per cent .
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Beginning in the second year you pay three per cent interest on your mortgage.
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Bonds go into a monthly prize draw paying 4.25 per cent overall.
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I mentioned money because I was reminded of how we had a boy living here once we never paid a red cent .
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His current account pays 0.01 per cent and his savings account pays marginally more than 2 per cent.
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All three pay 6.85 per cent , offer instant access, and welcome deposits from £1.
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It will then be moved to the Liquid Gold account paying just 2 per cent .
rise
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And even if that target is met, global emissions will still rise to 30 per cent above 1990 levels by 2010.
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February gasoline rose 0. 20 cent 55. 41 cents a gallon.
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The Kosdaq index rose 5.7 per cent and the benchmark Kospi index gained 4.6 per cent to 587.87.
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Meanwhile credit investment rose by 23 per cent .
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Van sales rose by 39 per cent year on year to 14,952 vehicles.
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Rates rise to 4.5 per cent for 90 days and to 4.75 per cent for a year.
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GlaxoSmithKline offered some support as it rose 2.4 per cent after Goldman Sachs provided some positive comments about the stock.
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Total sales rose by 3.2 per cent .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
$100/50 cents etc a clip
not one red cent
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Carter said she wouldn't pay one red cent of her rent until the landlord fixed her roof.
two cents (worth)
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Just for my own two cents worth, even Martin Luther King said the source of all wealth is labor.
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One hundred thousand copies at two cents a sheet.
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Results in the most recent quarter were two cents below the consensus from analysts surveyed by First Call.
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Walter had already put in his two cents worth.
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We charged a penny for admission and two cents a cup for Kool-Aid.