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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a monthly payment
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Home buyers have seen their monthly payments go up by more than 50 percent.
a monthly/annual etc allowance
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His father gives him a monthly allowance of £200.
a monthly/weekly meeting
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a routine weekly meeting with the managing director
a weekly/daily/monthly column
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Her daily column covered a wide range of topics.
an annual/a monthly fee
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An annual fee of £150 has been introduced.
an annual/monthly subscription
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An annual subscription to the magazine costs $20.
an annual/monthly/weekly budget
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The organization has an annual budget of $24 million.
an annual/monthly/weekly cycle (= the related events that repeat themselves every year, month etc )
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the annual cycle of planting and harvesting crops
an annual/monthly/weekly/daily total
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The Government plans to increase the annual total of 2,500 adoptions by up to 50%.
be paid weekly/monthly
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Most of us get paid weekly or monthly.
hourly/weekly/monthly earnings
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Some football players have weekly earnings of over £50,000.
monthly salary
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What's your monthly salary?
the annual/monthly cost
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This figure represents the annual cost of a loan.
the annual/monthly/weekly rent
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Our annual rent is just over $15000.
the hourly/daily/monthly etc wage
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The average daily wage was £100.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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allowance
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I was looking forward to my day because I would be getting my monthly allowance of thirty pounds from my mum.
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It paid me a monthly allowance , which was never enough.
average
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October alone has seen more than an inch over the monthly average ... and it's not half way through the month yet.
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In 1993, a monthly average of 5 million families received Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
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The monthly average in 1989 was 950.
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The totals are more than twice as much as the monthly averages .
basis
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First of all, detail all your expenses - on a monthly basis - in the left hand column.
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To make these figures seem less alarming, banks prefer to quote rates on a monthly basis .
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But he wants to track its ups and downs on a monthly basis .
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But now assume another person invests that same $ 20, 000 in pieces on a monthly basis .
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He asks us to give returns on the monthly basis .
bill
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Your monthly bills , including mortgage or rent, should not be more than half your monthly take-home pay.
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The average monthly bill per customer is declining as the industry woos newcomers who want a cellular phone mainly for emergencies.
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One can actually program a computer to pay certain monthly bills automatically on a specified day.
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Charges for extra time quickly raise the monthly bill .
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Most people, on the other hand, have a job and virtually everyone pays taxes and monthly bills .
bulletin
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In both cases the customer is sent quarterly statements plus a monthly bulletin of market analysis and research.
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Its priceless monthly bulletins will continue to add to the gaiety of nations.
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A monthly bulletin is prepared and circulated to each section.
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Its monthly bulletin goes to over 350 groups.
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It publishes a monthly bulletin featuring all the latest small business opportunities.
charge
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Included in the monthly charge are all meals, central heating, hot water, maintenance and cleaning.
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The monthly charge is $ 40 for current cable subscribers and $ 60 for nonsubscribers.
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Also ask about the possibility of capped monthly charges to certain numbers.
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People told of monthly charges going from $ 8 to $ 13 and from $ 12 to $ 26.
check
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The last monthly check was for $ 589.
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The second is a desire to stop giving monthly checks to alcoholics and addicts.
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Who will guarantee monthly checks if Wall Street swoons?
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Take your pension in lump sum rather than in monthly checks .
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With an average life expectancy, that same beneficiary will collect a monthly check for five years beyond that.
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For an average earner, that will be 16 years of collecting a monthly check worth about $ 4, 247.
fee
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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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But now she pays a monthly fee to the Miraflores municipality.
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Typically, a solicitor will offer several magazines for a low weekly or monthly fee .
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The monthly fee covers continuous ordinary dental care.
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AutoBy-Tel charges auto dealerships a monthly fee for its referrals.
income
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Instead, with average monthly income falling to $ 10, life is far harder than under Soviet rule.
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Mills was flush, with no debts and a $ 3, 000 monthly income that sufficed easily in Coahoma.
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He decided to arrange that a large monthly income be paid to Annabel until next May: that should shut her up.
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Subtract the total of those items in levels I and 2 from your monthly income .
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These bonds pay regular monthly income on sums of between £500 and £1 million.
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That sum doubles their monthly income .
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Save as you earn-Building societies will accept regular monthly income from you.
inflation
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However, monthly inflation , which had reached 123 percent in February, was down to 5 percent by May-June.
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By April 1989 price controls started to crumble and monthly inflation rose from 5% in March 1989 to 73% this February.
instalments
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The repayment mortgage is the traditional method of arranging a mortgage where capital is repaid by level monthly instalments together with interest.
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Here's what it costs Included in the 12 monthly instalments is a small credit charge.
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On a loan of 100 repaid in 12 equal monthly instalments , you'd be charged £6.50.
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She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5, when she asked for a second loan.
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The tax-relief is paid to us - and we take it off your monthly instalments .
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Loan repayments are spread over 60 monthly instalments .
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Spread your premium payments over 12 monthly instalments .
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He would pay back the £5,000 together with the interest in 120 monthly instalments of £82.89.
interest
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If you think that monthly interest would be a useful supplement to your income, follow our guide.
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Chin allegedly wrote six checks to Jasmine Inc. to pay 4 percent monthly interest on the loans, the indictment says.
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Accounts that pay monthly interest may offer lower rates than those where the interest is paid annually.
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First-e and First Direct offer only monthly interest .
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With a Capital Advantage account you have the option of monthly interest paid straight into your Barclays current account.
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Now savers can get up to 7.76 p.c. on monthly interest with the Halifax.
interval
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They do, however, need to be tested at monthly intervals to ensure that the batteries are still active.
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Each session is spaced out at monthly intervals .
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Newsletters from the police will be issued at three monthly intervals .
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The Village Association will pay for the three monthly intervals .
magazine
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Darby was a cheerfully relaxed young man who compiled cryptic crosswords for a monthly magazine in his spare time.
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It is now the largest selling monthly magazine for young women in almost all of the countries in which it is published.
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A new monthly magazine Wessex Architect was launched and used to promote a wide range of events.
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Which was the most discussed book of the year according to some magazine , monthly magazine.
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Automatic receipt of the monthly magazine Banking World.
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Worldwide membership of the 13-year-old Eastwood Appreciation Society - which produced a monthly magazine - had slumped from 1,000 to just 87.
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This is the monthly magazine , for Guides, with lots of help and ideas for fun Patrol activities.
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Our combined experience of running and selling a monthly magazine was not large.
meeting
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Club activities centre on monthly meetings , an information service and the production of application demonstrators.
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They held monthly meetings of all tenants.
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When Quaker tea merchant Joseph Fry went bankrupt in 1828 his monthly meeting disowned him.
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I said no way to that, so I had to join a regular reserve unit and go to monthly meetings .
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The monthly meetings include discussions of Club business, talks by guest speakers and vendor presentations.
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At the monthly meetings they took their meals together and did not appear to welcome anyone else to join them.
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For a time the results were communicated to field staff at their regular monthly meetings .
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The Council held monthly meetings , later becoming more frequent, with different ministers attending according to the subject being discussed.
mortgage
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You can expect to pay £5.50 for each £100 of your monthly mortgage payment.
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Sadly, they were forced to rent their dream house to tenants for the $ 25 monthly mortgage .
newsletter
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The group has proposed the launch of an independent monthly newsletter to address these and other issues.
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He concluded by thanking vice-chairman Tony Rudgard who has produced the useful monthly newsletter for parish councillors.
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Cuttings that should come to everybody's attention quickly can be pinned to the library noticeboard or contained in a monthly newsletter .
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Many also issue a monthly newsletter giving investment advice.
payment
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Just like a repayment mortgage, the interest rates can change, and this will affect your monthly payment .
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That totals 26 payments a year, the equivalent of 13 monthly payments rather than 12&038;.
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Thus after year six, your monthly payments are higher than the standard rate demands.
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In either case, however, the business has the use of the asset and incurs a monthly payment obligation.
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Budget the cost through fixed monthly payments and - depending on the project - offset some of the cost through tax relief.
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Conversely, if the base rate rises, your monthly payments stay the same.
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The grant will be distributed over 3 monthly payments to ensure maximum accountability.
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For those taking an £80,000 loan over 25 years, this means a monthly payment of £583.41.
premium
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By comparison, an Equitable Life 10-year endowment policy, with monthly premiums of £30, would have produced about £8,399.
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What is the monthly premium excluding all riders?
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In fact, it is considerably less than the £2,548.26 that the policyholder has paid in the form of monthly premiums .
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Choice of monthly premiums from your Bank current account or some types of Building Society account.
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With each monthly premium , you acquire more units.
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The values shown here are per £10 of monthly premium .
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In addition, a lot of fund managers impose a minimum monthly premium , typically between £20 and £50.
publication
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The monthly publication of the unemployment figures provides a depressing barometer of the dole queue.
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My short stories and sketches were to find first outlets through George Scott, editor of the literary monthly publication , Truth.
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All, or at least some are presumably revealed in a slender monthly publication .
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In 1892 Trevor founded a monthly publication entitled Labour Prophet.
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They operate on around a quarter of the staff of a normal monthly publication . 9.
rate
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Switching to a daily or monthly rate could save hundreds of pounds each year.
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Also, the amount paid exceeds the authorized monthly rate of pay for the director of data services position.
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The average monthly rate would go up to an estimated $ 14. 52.
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It is invested in Treasury securities with a guaranteed monthly rate .
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With your help, we can keep our cost of operations steady, which helps control our monthly rates .
rent
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He barely makes enough money to pay his monthly rent .
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Newsome suggests a pet deposit of 25 percent to 33 percent of the monthly rent .
repayment
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And, you can usually arrange sickness or redundancy benefit to cover your monthly repayments , for a small premium each month.
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Budget ahead to meet fixed monthly repayments .
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Borrowers can chose to repay with 3 or 5 percent pared off their monthly repayments .
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For example, £15,000 over 5 years would give a monthly repayment of about £400, and a total repayment of £24,000.
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The additional data available includes the initial monthly repayment and the total cost of the loan.
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Longer loan periods mean your monthly repayments can be correspondingly lower.
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Look at the monthly repayments and make sure they add up correctly.
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The monthly repayment will be £356.67, a saving of £176.66 each month and £10,599.60 over the full five-year term.
report
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Ministries send in monthly reports which are annotated and submitted to the Chancellor via the state secretaries.
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It also will monitor how well specific companies deal with minorities and publish monthly reports .
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For example, question whether you really need to see all those monthly reports crammed full of data you never study.
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J., chairman of Congress' Joint Economic Committee, which held a hearing to discuss the monthly report .
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It provides detailed monthly reports and annual summaries itemising the amount overcharged, or if appropriate, undercharged.
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In its monthly reports , for instance, it has dropped its insistence that the threat of deflation has receded.
salary
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In constant dollar terms, a teacher with a monthly salary of $ 381 six weeks ago now brings home $ 248.
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Petar Beron calculates his monthly salary in loaves of bread.
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The part-time worker has the right to a monthly salary proportionally equivalent to that of a corresponding full-time employee.
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In future they will be treated like other manual workers and be paid monthly salaries .
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Sir Hugh Rossi - more than one quarter of monthly salary ?
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They put the money into a bank account, out of which they pay themselves a monthly salary .
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They do nothing but draw their monthly salaries .
service
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Service degradations will however be noted, with reasons, in the monthly service report.
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The cost is about $ 5, 000, plus a monthly service fee starting at $ 80.
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Other radio presentations included one of the monthly services in 1954, and the School Choir in I 955.
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Results will be summarised in the monthly service report.
statement
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All seven schools received a monthly statement in the form of a computer printout from county hall.
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A monthly statement showing details of all transactions on your account together with the balance on Meridian Savings.
sum
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Break down all your income amounts and expense amounts into monthly sums .
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The monthly sum may be low but over the long term, it adds up.
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Concurrently with these interest charges, you contribute a monthly sum to an endowment policy.
survey
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Output expectations for the next four months are the highest recorded by the authoritative monthly survey since May last year.
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One is the monthly survey by Challenger, Gray&038;.
total
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The table summarises the records since 1948 and suggests some increase; duplications arise in the monthly totals when birds winter.
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Then add monthly totals together-it will be a surprisingly large total.
wage
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Stars received 20 times the average monthly wage for one concert.
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It nearly doubled his monthly wage , from $ 3. 75 to $ 6. 50.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a monthly commuter train ticket
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a monthly credit card payment
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a monthly income of $3,750
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a monthly magazine
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a monthly meeting
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A loan of £30,000 would add more than 7 percent to a monthly £298.22.
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A new monthly magazine Wessex Architect was launched and used to promote a wide range of events.
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And they gave monthly and quarterly awards to the best drivers.
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But he wants to track its ups and downs on a monthly basis.
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Cuttings that should come to everybody's attention quickly can be pinned to the library noticeboard or contained in a monthly newsletter.
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In the first year of the plan, the government will pay 30 percent of their monthly payments.
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The monthly charge is $ 40 for current cable subscribers and $ 60 for nonsubscribers.
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The average monthly bill per customer is declining as the industry woos newcomers who want a cellular phone mainly for emergencies.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Commercial journals, particularly the weeklies and monthlies, can take rapid decisions, and have a faster turn-round time.