noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a booking fee
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Ticket agencies may charge a booking fee.
a licence fee (= money you have to pay to get a licence )
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The BBC is funded by a licence fee which all television owners have to pay.
a membership fee ( also membership dues ) (= money you must pay to become a member )
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The current annual membership fee is £20.
a subscription fee
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If you pay a subscription fee, you can watch matches on the Internet.
advance fee fraud
appearance fee/money (= the money someone is paid to appear somewhere )
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He gave his appearance fee to charity.
charge rent/a fee/interest etc
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The gallery charges an entrance fee.
command a high fee/wage/price etc
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Which graduates command the highest salaries?
flat fee
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We charge a flat fee for car hire.
registration fee
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The registration fee is $75.
retaining fee (= an amount of money to keep someone working for you )
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We had to pay a retaining fee .
transfer fee
user fee
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
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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 annual subscription fee is £8.
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Participants must enroll in advance and pay a $ 40 annual membership fee .
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In addition, the management company may charge an annual fee of 0.5-1 percent of net asset value.
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The account requires a $ 20, 000 initial deposit and a $ 100 annual fee .
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Anyone wishing to have an up-to-date statement of the annual fee before accepting a place should write to the Registry.
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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.
flat
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One, for the World Resources Institute, compared ten cities that had pay-to-throw schemes with four others that charged flat fees .
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Khare pays Kelly a flat weekly fee for Baltzersen, avoiding disability insurance, benefits and payroll costs.
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Girobank charges a flat fee of £5 per draft and Barclays £9.
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You can either pay a flat fee for your access or pay per megabyte of traffic coming down your line.
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At present, they pay a flat fee for a license.
high
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The introduction of higher fees in 1956 did not solve the District's financial problems, only make them manageable.
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Charlotte, North Carolina-based First Union earnings rose 21 percent, as higher fees offset sluggish lending profits.
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She was just using the fact that I was desperate to hold me up for an outrageously high fee .
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Small-business owner Frank Sheftel is saying no to one of the biggest trends in banking: higher fees .
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She also condemned the practice of paying men-midwives higher fees than women.
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By dealing in dollars you avoid paying high exchange fees or going home with a wad of pesos.
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If her program beats me, her broker could use that to command higher fees .
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For the past three years, he taught mathematics at Sonoma State University and led protests against higher student fees .
hourly
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To ensure complete objectivity there are a growing number of IFAs who do not take commission but who charge an hourly fee .
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Mr Bennett, even at his hourly fees still an officer of the court, should be ashamed of himself.
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And I will pay you your regular hourly fee plus fifty percent.
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It did, however, charge hourly fees that could add up quickly for heavy users.
initial
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It charges an initial fee of 1% and a 1% annual fee.
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The charges of a 5 percent initial fee , 1.25 percent annual, are standard.
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Usually the initial fee payable to the franchisor is between 5 percent and 10 percent of the total investment.
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Charges are £270 initial fee , £270 annual charge, and investment dealing at competitive rates.
legal
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We will only pay these legal fees if they arise from an accident that is covered under this policy.
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One way to stay abreast of the legal fees is to ask for monthly billings.
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The paper was rocky, as circulation, distribution, legal fees , arguments were building up.
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It also indicates the district spends almost $ 25, 000 on legal fees .
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The offer included free removal and no legal fees .
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After almost $ 20, 000 in legal fees , though, Frederick Brewing won approval with its catchy label intact.
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They pay £1 plus legal fees and move in.
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But Aldrich said his $ 100, 000 advance already has been spent on legal fees .
low
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A fixed-price offer gives issuers greater certainty and intermediaries lower fees .
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The companies offering these services have to provide incentives such as low fees to customers to use the service.
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The lower fees he paid, he said, were more than enough to cover these extra costs.
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Many businesses besides ours have low entry fees .
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Fat and happy, banks saw no point in competing for customers with lower fees or interest rates.
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Hotchkis's dinky ad budget translates into low annual fees .
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Specialists would be paid a lower fee if they accepted patients without referrals.
monthly
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A monthly capitation fee is paid to profit making companies.
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The cost is about $ 5, 000, plus a monthly service fee starting at $ 80.
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But customers should remember that they could face other charges on top of the interest such as monthly fees .
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Most plans include a monthly fee and a certain number of free minutes per month.
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There is a monthly fee of £1.50 to cover the administration of your Home Management Account.
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Not everyone can afford a computer system at home plus the monthly fees .
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Once your overdraft is arranged, the monthly usage fee will be £3 if you overdraw by more than £50.
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Typically, a solicitor will offer several magazines for a low weekly or monthly fee .
nominal
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Those registered users of Word for Windows requiring the upgrade can obtain it from Microsoft for a nominal fee of £7.75inc.VAT.
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All levy a nominal admission fee .
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Traditionally, the people's singing has been delegated to a choir which is generally paid a nominal fee .
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Under the program, the government sold shares to citizens for a nominal fee to quickly transform state enterprises into private companies.
small
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Some will guarantee their members' work for a small fee , usually about 1% of the estimate.
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Investors pay a smaller fee for reinvesting larger dividends.
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The flying club and bar offers a friendly greeting and place to pay the small landing fee .
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You can also buys shares of the fund through discount brokerage Charles Schwab Corp. for a small fee .
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The best deal I can do on the airfares is £870 - this includes a small fee for myself for the administration.
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Members pay a small fee to participate in some dining programs; others are gratis.
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Recorded Delivery Recorded Delivery is available for a small fee for first and second class letters.
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The homesteader needed a small filing fee , and a much larger amount of cash to survive until the farm got going.
standard
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Fees Search work will be charged for on a standard fee basis.
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A standard contingency fee is 33 percent to 40 percent.
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It has sought to identify what criteria must be met before any standard fees system could be workable.
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Many doctors have a standard scale of fees which they can send you.
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Of immediate concern to the profession was the Lord Chancellor's introduction of standard fees for magistrates' court work.
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The first of these, standard fees in the magistrates' courts, is to be introduced in January 1993.
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A standard fee was then imposed.
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appearance
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As an act's appearance fees become higher, the agent may settle for a smaller percentage.
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He missed the cut by eight strokes, collected his six-figure appearance fee , and split for a month at home.
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Several national organizing committees look at shoe companies and appearance fees as a threat to their authority.
audit
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From this perspective, 1993 looks likely to be another year of substantial audit fee cuts.
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Grace paid Price Waterhouse $ 7. 2 million in consulting and audit fees last year.
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Or consider the meeting to agree the audit fee , when the auditor can hardly wait to get his point across.
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Price Waterhouse, it seems, was not just investing in the Prudential by dropping the audit fee by 14%.
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None of the companies was reluctant to talk: cutting the audit fee is a popular subject.
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Indeed, 29 of the companies paid unchanged audit fees .
contingency
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His home, law firm and love life were all sacrificed to the case which was brought on a contingency fee basis.
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A standard contingency fee is 33 percent to 40 percent.
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It recommended that the prohibition on contingency fees and other forms of incentive should be re-examined.
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Voters rejected measures to ban most lawsuits resulting from car accidents, limit shareholder lawsuits and slash lawyers' contingency fees .
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A review of contingency fees was undertaken and research on commercial legal expenses insurance was published.
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Californians also turned down Proposition 202, a proposal to limit lawyers' contingency fees and encourage early settlement of lawsuits.
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The contingency fee usually sorts out the questionable cases to begin with.
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A substantial percentage of these lawsuits are brought by attorneys working on a contingency fee basis.
entrance
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All except the 25 pence of the £4.25 entrance fee goes to the rider coming second.
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Of them, 186 collect an entrance fee .
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We not only pay an entrance fee to access these facilities, we also pay a community charge for local amenities.
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After a major uproar, that was trashed and replaced with an $ 11 entrance fee .
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But the not-so-bright can sometimes secure a place if the parents stump up a large entrance fee .
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For example, the entrance fee at Yosemite is now $ 5.
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The entrance fee was another 15 dollars but this is nothing to Nikitenko.
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Strangers may be politely questioned before paying the $ 16 entrance fee .
entry
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There is a £10 entry fee and each participant should raise £50 in sponsorship in order to take part.
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Many businesses besides ours have low entry fees .
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Five-a-side knockout football competition - charge an entry fee .
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Deadline for entries is Thursday, August 28. Entry fee is $ 10, or $ 15 for late entry.
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Individuals and groups are welcome and entry fees range from free to £2.
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Some felt that the entry fee - on average approximately £300 per yacht - was too much.
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Many have entry fees , but several offer $ 100,000 and more to the winner.
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Contact the organiser Any runners who are able to raise more than £25 for charity will have to pay the £5.50 entry fee .
income
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But this was not just the effect of slower markets and smaller volumes on commission and fee income .
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The offices on the mainland also saw their fee income fall, although not to the same extent.
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For a small firm of solicitors in a market town, conveyancing has accounted for about half of all fee income .
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Regulated fee income arises when a regulated service is provided as a stand alone service.
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Total worldwide fee income exceeded £6m. by 1989.
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Hays Allen itself registered a 2.7% drop in fee income to £6.8m for the year to 30 April.
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A better overall service should be offered with, hopefully, an accompanying increase in fee income .
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Corporate finance and privatisation, in particular, did well, increasing fee income by 19% to £16m.
licence
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Table 4.2 shows the changes in the licence fee for the whole post-war period.
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Well, I live in sheltered accommodation and, believe me, I have to pay the full licence fee .
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Not worth the licence fee as Derek says.
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An added advantage: you don't have to pay any licence fee for this model because there is no T.V. receiver.
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The great thing about only having a licence fee is that you do retain complete editorial control and all the rights.
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There was no increase in the licence fee to pay for a 50 percent jump in programme hours.
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Phonelink will charge a licence fee for its software, while each unit used will be paid for at a pre-determined rate.
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Until the very recent past governments would also set the level of the licence fee .
management
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Expect to pay a management fee of up to 15 percent.
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It receives millions more in a management fee that is supposed to cover expenses not covered by contracts.
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The management fee is 0.75% a year.
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Investment management fees rose 20 percent to $ 156 million.
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There are no initial charges, only an annual management fee of 1%.
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Contracts now run for only one year, and management fees are based on rent collection and compliance with housing codes.
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Yet most existing fundholders find they do not have the available money as their management fees are fully committed within their practices.
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In addition, Abtrust Fund Managers is to reduce its quarterly management fee to 0.2 percent from 0.25 percent.
membership
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And as the lifeboats are run entirely on voluntary contributions and membership fees , the £6 you give to us is vital.
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Participants must enroll in advance and pay a $ 40 annual membership fee .
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The rest of the cash comes from sponsorship, membership fees , donations and ticket sales.
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A health care consumer council would be created and would include anyone over age 16 who paid a $ 10 membership fee .
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A temporary membership fee is $ 5, an annual fee about $ 25.
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The minimum membership fee is IR10.00 perannum.
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Annual membership fees become due either prior to, or on December 31 each year.
registration
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Three-fifths of this was spent on travel, tuition fees , exam and registration fees and childcare.
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A registration fee of $ is also required.
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Business operators were required to pay a $ 25 annual registration fee and city business taxes.
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Consultants would pay registration fees and file quarterly reports with the city Ethics Commission.
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The registration fee is $ 75, which includes breakfast, lunch, prizes, complimentary beverages and golf.
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Find out how much foal registration fees will be and whether or not you need to join any breed society.
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The cost of the ceremony will be $ 35, which comes on top of a $ 30 domestic partners registration fee .
school
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His benefit package may include the payment of school fees for his children and the continuation of pension arrangements.
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There are two golden rules about school fees planning.
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This seems to reflect primarily the increasing cost of school fees , combined with rises in the cost of living.
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In this very poor country, private school fees are beyond the means of much of the population.
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What about the mortgage and the school fees ?
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Mr Murrell's approach aims to combine a series of investments within a school fees portfolio.
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We believe all parents have the right to choice in education - not only those who can afford school fees .
transfer
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In that event the players' registrations would be taken over by the League and transfer fees payable to Lytham.
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Pearce's request for new terms could have been sparked by transfer fees and wages rocketing in the last 12 months.
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Oldham have also cut the transfer fees on three players.
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If that happens, multi-million pound transfer fees will instead go to players in the form of higher salaries.
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An upper limit was then set on transfer fees .
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Meanwhile, Swindon celebrated promotion to the Premier League today by breaking their own club record transfer fee .
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Cash Flow: Club expenses include wages, transfer fees and ground rent.
tuition
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Three-fifths of this was spent on travel, tuition fees , exam and registration fees and childcare.
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Since autumn 1998, full-time undergraduate students have been required to make a means-tested contribution towards tuition fees .
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These awards cover the payment of tuition fees only and do not provide a maintenance grant.
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In 1995, a third had debt in that range. Tuition fees are one large cause.
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Many students will not have to pay tuition fees if their financial situation is below a certain level.
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But on the question of private tuition fees they are moving with remarkable alacrity.
user
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We never used to pay user fees in the clinics and hospitals.
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The debt is to be repaid through Pima County residents' user fees .
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The user fees in education and health have been particularly difficult.
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Bush also proposed raising $ 75 million with new user fees for hazardous material shippers and owners of pipelines and railroads.
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Even user fees charged for private goods have some drawbacks.
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Or rule on whether asset sales, user fees , mandates and flashes of congressional ingenuity yet undreamed of violate the Constitution?
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Other user fees actually make public systems more progressive.
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agree
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The Village Association has agreed to pay the fees for two staff members to sit the mini-bus test.
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A spokeswoman for the Omaha Visitor and Convention Bureau agrees that the fee was imposed, in part, for the stadium.
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Or consider the meeting to agree the audit fee , when the auditor can hardly wait to get his point across.
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The contractor negotiates with an insurance company which agrees , for a fee paid by the contractor, to provide the bond.
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Some newsagents will agree for a small fee to do a mail drop with the daily or evening papers.
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In the event that we can not agree an acceptable revised fee scale then we withdraw from the sale.
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Kendall, desperate to sign a striker before Saturday's Premier League kick-off, met Harford after agreeing a £300,000 fee .
charge
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In public sector schools in the late 1980s, shortages of government funding were bringing pressures to charge fees .
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Some charge an up front fee and others charge fees when investors redeem shares.
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And don't forget to charge the fee in your bill of costs.
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Several companies are now offering Internet access without charging monthly fees .
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One, for the World Resources Institute, compared ten cities that had pay-to-throw schemes with four others that charged flat fees .
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The band claimed Ticketmaster was charging excessive service fees and refused to reduce its fees for Pearl Jam concerts.
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I charged a fee - two tour-expired instructors.
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Lenders typically require a higher down payment and may charge other fees .
collect
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The Archive may, in addition, collect a royalty fee for the data owner.
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She watched events on a color television set in the cubicle where she sat, collecting fees from her customers.
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If the sale is abandoned, they still collect their fee , and their responsibility ends at once.
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She never got the chance to collect her fee .
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Why, they asked, should these associations collect such large fees for sanctioning a title fight?
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However, if they insist on collecting the fee , dump them.
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It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees .
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Banks, they say, also should be forced to pay damages for previously collecting those fees in states that prohibit them.
cover
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A minimum of £60,000 would be needed to cover fees for two children attending public school from age nine to 18.
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This second fund is used to cover doctor fees and a host of medical services performed outside of hospitals.
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The women, who were on legal aid, were offered an out-of-court settlement which would have barely covered their legal fees .
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Private medical insurance normally covers your private hospital fees only - so it's quite different.
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There is also cover for legal fees for personal injury suffered in an accident.
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In many instances, the income support rates cover the fees .
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Each governing body selected will receive £100 to cover the fees , expenses and travelling costs of both coaches.
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Compensation packages generally cover education fees .
include
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The best deal I can do on the airfares is £870 - this includes a small fee for myself for the administration.
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Most plans include a monthly fee and a certain number of free minutes per month.
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Steinbock said employees consistently referred only to the money homeowners would receive, not the total loans, which included fees .
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This includes a fee of Pounds 12,500, a three-month lease on a van and some working capital.
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Ironically the release includes fees for attorneys, water and environmental professionals as income generated for the city.
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Unofficial payments made by Swindon included signing-on fees of up to £20,000 and a goalkeeper's £50 bonus for keeping a clean sheet.
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The cost of the visit is included within the programme fee .
pay
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Sign the document, pay the fee and that's that until the next time.
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Until you upgrade it by paying a fee , shareware usually has minimal documentation and no tech support.
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Both scientific and commercial biodiversity prospectors should pay fees , as mineral prospectors do.
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Businesses and other institutions have to pay a fee for a site license.
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Qualified Teachers' Fees A few teachers have still not paid their fees for 1981.
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Wednesday was the deadline to apply for the new permanent-residency cards and pay the $ 75 fee .
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He has paid £4,000 in fees and has 25 clients seeking loans ranging from £20,000 to £5m.
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She says she would use the money to pay legal fees and for charity.
raise
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The plan to raise full-cost fees is likely to fail.
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It raises its greens fees for golf.
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To raise the fees , you know.
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In any case, the anxiety about raising tuition fees in Britain is misplaced.
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Congress granted the Interior Department authority to raise the fees earlier this year under a three-year program that expires in 1999.
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Public schools have raised their fees by an average 7.5 percent this year, the smallest increase for a decade.
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BankAmerica claims it has not raised fees or minimum required balances for the past three years.
receive
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It was stated Venables received a £500,000 signing-on fee but Venables says the figure was just £50,000.
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A dubious reform written in the Senate, Proposition 112 in 1990, barred legislators from receiving speaking fees .
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Sometimes the headhunter receives a fee for that advice without even undertaking an executive search.
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Only about a dozen other legislators were receiving speaking fees , most totaling $ 10, 000 or less.
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He flew to Nice in his private jet, despite having received his performance fee of $ 360,000 in full.
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I wanted to make it a law that only those lawyers and attorneys should receive fees who had won their cases.
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They received a capitation fee for every pupil - in whatever category - in the school.
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Students can not be registered until fees are received in full and fees must have been paid before tutors begin teaching. 6.
reduce
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But ride a bike and you could escape all penalties-or be charged a much reduced fee .
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They could be purchased cheaply, thus reducing models' fees .
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In addition, Abtrust Fund Managers is to reduce its quarterly management fee to 0.2 percent from 0.25 percent.
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Ticketmaster to reduce costly service fees .&038;.
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Four companies said they had reduced their fees by putting the audit out to tender.
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The band claimed Ticketmaster was charging excessive service fees and refused to reduce its fees for Pearl Jam concerts.
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First we must reduce the bookseller licence fee from around £40 to £10.
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Three Exclusive Links Cards offer reduced fees at several dozen courses in the Northeast.
set
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An upper limit was then set on transfer fees .
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Regional administrators would negotiate with doctors' groups to set fees to fit the budget.
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There is a £195 set up fee and three months early redemption charge.
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The formula for setting that fee will be determined later.
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Seven years ago, the state set the collective discharger fees at $ 4 million per year.
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But hospitals may set outpatient fees at any level they want.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
contingency fee
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A review of contingency fees was undertaken and research on commercial legal expenses insurance was published.
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A standard contingency fee is 33 percent to 40 percent.
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A substantial percentage of these lawsuits are brought by attorneys working on a contingency fee basis.
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Californians also turned down Proposition 202, a proposal to limit lawyers' contingency fees and encourage early settlement of lawsuits.
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His home, law firm and love life were all sacrificed to the case which was brought on a contingency fee basis.
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It recommended that the prohibition on contingency fees and other forms of incentive should be re-examined.
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The contingency fee usually sorts out the questionable cases to begin with.
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Voters rejected measures to ban most lawsuits resulting from car accidents, limit shareholder lawsuits and slash lawyers' contingency fees.
hourly pay/earnings/fees etc
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Average hourly earnings advanced a scant 1 cent in January, reaching $ 12. 06.
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It did, however, charge hourly fees that could add up quickly for heavy users.
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Mississippi has the lowest income per capita of any state, as well as the lowest hourly earnings for production workers.
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Mr Bennett, even at his hourly fees still an officer of the court, should be ashamed of himself.
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Within the Paid Employment Arena 3.2 Differential hourly earnings are the most obvious indicator of the patriarchal dividend.
nominal sum/charge/fee etc
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A red cotton T-shirt or running vest is available at a nominal charge of £1.00 together with sponsorship forms.
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He applied for a grant of land and this was sold to him for a nominal sum.
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Homes for the elderly were shut, and formerly nominal charges increased and extended.
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It would save money simply to give the pits to the miners for a nominal sum, say £1.
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The local agents provide an extensive catalogue of programs available at a nominal charge.
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Those registered users of Word for Windows requiring the upgrade can obtain it from Microsoft for a nominal fee of £7.75inc.VAT.
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Traditionally, the people's singing has been delegated to a choir which is generally paid a nominal fee.
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Under the program, the government sold shares to citizens for a nominal fee to quickly transform state enterprises into private companies.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An accident on vacation can cost you a lot in medical fees.
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Dr Allison charges a fee of $90 for a consultation.
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Insurance covered most of the doctor's fees.
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Last year IBM paid $12 million in legal fees to a single law firm.
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Some actors can ask a fee of around $1000.000 a movie.
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The fee for the standard structural survey is £175.
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The fee is $50 for a six-week art class.
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The doctor I saw charged an £100 fee for an initial consultation.
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The entrance fees to the park have gone up by 50%.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any tickets resold will be subject to a 20% handling fee deducted from monies due.
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I understand that our fee will be split equally between both parties.
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It also includes dozens of sights that have admission fees.
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It also provides money, drawn partially from fees paid by developers, to protect land from urban development.
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Total fees and commissions fell to $ 204 million from $ 192 million, as corporate finance and lending fees fell.
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You have to spend some proportion of the fee there on the rock.
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You may have to pay an arrangement fee to the lender of £200 to £300.