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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A man was shot dead in a hold-up at a downtown bank.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At Trenton there was one last hold-up .
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Hakkar admitted he took part in the hold-up , but denied having fired a gun.
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It came about one day that he had no money to play, and he committed a hold-up in a store.
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It was an uneasy switch from the difficulties of homeowners to a light-hearted story about hard-up baboons staging hold-ups of passing cars.
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People are afraid to use the buses because of armed hold-ups.
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The model 214-2F research biomass monitor has increased sensitivity, improved long-term stability and reduced effect of gas hold-up in fermenters.
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There was one hold-up after another and all the time Clift became more and more frail.