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average
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Prices, however, reflected these origins and such goods were beyond the reach of average income earners .
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For an average earner , that will be 16 years of collecting a monthly check worth about $ 4, 247.
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National insurance contributions now have a ceiling: higher earners pay no more than average earners. 3.
big
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It is now a major international business and one of Britain's biggest yen earners .
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Fast food items and fountain beverage sales are big earners .
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The coffee industry, until tourism's rise the country's biggest earner , is in semi-collapse.
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Goldman, Sachs &038; Co., thanks to its prowess in underwriting stocks, was the biggest fee earner last year.
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It proved one of the big money earners for the year.
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Milk traffic was a big revenue earner and continued to be until around 1950.
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The company reporting cycle means that our league of big earners will be changing throughout the year.
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In the past two years, tourism, the country's single biggest earner , has revived.
high
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The highest earners have the most confidence in themselves, while those currently without a steady relationship are relatively lacking in confidence.
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Married men are the only ones in the population who in general tend to reach the high echelons of earners .
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Firstly, of course, because it only affects high earners , i.e. those earning more than £75,000 a year.
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But the highest earner in 1995 was the Eagles with $ 63 million, according to Pollstar.
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They have always offered special deals to attract students because they know that they are tomorrow's higher earners .
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Husbands are usually higher earners than their wives and their jobs or carers take precedence over those of women.
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In many instances, such arrangements would only be within the means of high earners .
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They simply appeared to be defending high earners .
little
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That would be a nice little earner for us.
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Some of the nurses found it a nice little earner on top of their poor weekly pay.
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A very nice little earner for the buyer!
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It was a good little earner , it paid the grocery bills for the week - his own, anyway.
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Doc on a night little earner !
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With an eye for a nice little earner , Del Trotter dictated his letter of application to chief sports writer Roy Collins.
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It has become, let's face it, a nice little earner .
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However worthy his motives, the good doctor is on a nice little earner .
low
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Those who were in the lowest 10% of earners paid fifteen percent.
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Provide generous exemptions that help lower earners .
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Income tax is a progressive tax because higher earners pay a higher proportion of their income in this tax than lower earners.
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Federal subsidies can offer rental assistance, convertible to a mortgage payment, to low income earners .
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We have reduced the burden of National Insurance on low earners .
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Self-help has become a vicious and patronising fiction which is deployed to excuse society's neglect of its lowest earners .
main
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Male speaker My wife lost her job; she was the main earner and basically from then on it was downward slide.
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The main foreign-exchange earner is, or has been, tourism.
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Ecuadoreans worry that the oil industry, their main foreign-exchange earner , is vulnerable to further violence.
nice
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That would be a nice little earner for us.
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Some of the nurses found it a nice little earner on top of their poor weekly pay.
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A very nice little earner for the buyer!
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With an eye for a nice little earner , Del Trotter dictated his letter of application to chief sports writer Roy Collins.
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It has become, let's face it, a nice little earner .
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However worthy his motives, the good doctor is on a nice little earner .
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Bethlehem will always be a nice little earner .
top
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They will hit the top earner , the energy-guzzler, the expense account holder, harder than anyone.
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export
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Other export earners , such as coffee and timber, remained stagnant, while imports continued to rise.
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Most factories and other export earners were largely untouched by the floods.
income
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Macleod was attacked by both liberals and conservatives in the Legco for failing to provide sufficient tax concessions to middle income earners .
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The number of homes sold to median-to-high income earners rose while neighbourhood representatives expressed concern over the concentration of substandard property.
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Federal subsidies can offer rental assistance, convertible to a mortgage payment, to low income earners .
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Second, Michael Portillo's tax cuts, carefully aimed at middle income earners , will appeal on the doorstep.
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Trafalgar House's Sir Eric Parker says the tax squeeze on middle income earners could hit house prices.
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Prices, however, reflected these origins and such goods were beyond the reach of average income earners .
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For example, cheap mortgages supplied by employers are one important way in which higher income earners maintain real higher standards of living.
revenue
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Milk traffic was a big revenue earner and continued to be until around 1950.
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Traditionally the major revenue earner , it was adversely affected by difficult trading conditions, particularly in the retail sector.
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During the coming decade output from the Statfjord, Frigg and Ekofisk fields will decline and replacement revenue earners are therefore vital.
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Instead he puts great faith in the traditional revenue earners of sponsorship and perimeter and programme advertising.
wage
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Many wage earners were indeed better off than ever before, and after 1922 the economy was free from inflation.
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In this case, inaction is bad news for wage earners .
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In Leicestershire only 22 percent of taxpayers overall were classed as wage earners , compared with 37 percent in Rutland next door.
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A family whose wage earners are without medical coverage can lose everything when a child becomes seriously ill.
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As wage earners themselves, they saw the morality of equal pay.
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Even in households where wage earners have some graduate education, incomes have declined 1 percent since 1989.
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He said there were 4 potential wage earners in the household but they hadn't made any payment for 17 months.
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Minimum wage earners , Kerry said, make about $ 8, 500 in a year.
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A family whose wage earners are without medical coverage can lose everything when a child becomes seriously ill.
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Breadwinner wives who are the couple's sole earners are a rarity, wives are typically joint but secondary earners.
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In this case, inaction is bad news for wage earners.
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Minimum wage earners, Kerry said, make about $ 8, 500 in a year.
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They have always offered special deals to attract students because they know that they are tomorrow's higher earners.
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They were contributors to a family wage rather than independent earners, but they were not members of a family unit of production.