I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gross/net expenditure (= the total amount a company spends before/after any tax or costs have been taken away )
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Spending on research and development represents 13% of our gross expenditure.
landing net
mosquito net
net earnings (= after tax has been paid )
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The company’s net earnings have fallen over the last two years.
net exporter of fuel (= it exports more fuel than it imports )
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With the expanded production of North Sea oil and gas, the UK has become a net exporter of fuel .
net gain
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The Democratic Party needed a net gain of only 20 votes.
net income (= income after you have paid tax )
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He was left with a net income of just £80 per week.
net profit (= after tax and costs are paid )
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The company made a net profit of $10.5 million.
safety net
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State support should provide a safety net for the very poor.
the net result (= the final result )
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The net result of fewer officers on the street was rising crime.
velvet/net/lace etc curtains (= made of velvet, net etc )
wire netting
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
empty
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Apanage deftly drew the bottle away from the empty net and inserted a magical cork into its neck.
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Two minutes after the interval good work by McAvennie allowed McStay to round Paul Mathers and shoot into an empty net .
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His teasing cross tempted Paul Robinson off his line and left an empty net for Dwight Yorke to stoop and head in.
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Butler's shot into an empty net was consolation for an earlier effort that struck the bar.
fishing
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I had a fishing net with me and carefully fished it out.
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Others die from entanglement in fishing nets .
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Nobody suspected that a significant proportion of the small population was being caught and killed each year in fishing nets .
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As the particles catch Lucifer's magnetic field, it is extended into space like a fishing net caught by the tide.
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Speed boats and fishing nets also need to be kept out of the area.
neural
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For neural nets and genetic algorithms, it is not so much fallible as crude.
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Abstract ideas became focused as he pulled together previous work on neural nets .
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Any learning neural net explores a space in which each state is described by a large set of simple parameters.
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One could conclude that neural nets love to do pattern classification.
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Training sets are typically large, for any kind of neural net .
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Subsequent Analysis: The 34 test results showed several close calls by operators that were unquestionably classified by the neural net .
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I am grateful to Teresa Ludermir who introduced me to it, and to logical neural nets .
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Unlike less sophisticated Al, neural nets do not require that elaborate rule structures be specified in advance.
semantic
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Detecting patterns in a large, complex semantic net is difficult to do without the aid of computer programs.
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The semantic net of remedial was expanding and expanding.
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In the bottom-up approach the paragraphs are first collected, and the semantic net is built as the paragraphs are indexed.
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Rough notes may be entered and do not need to be attached to the semantic net .
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To build and maintain a semantic net , indexing of paragraphs and semantic net construction go hand-in-hand.
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The purpose of the semantic net is to give people an overview of or handle on the content of the text.
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A semantic net lends itself to graphic display, and its meaning tends to be intuitively, if not formally, clear.
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The role of the semantic net is being explored in this new environment.
social
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They are a fundamental part of the social safety net and have kept the poverty rate among the elderly relatively low.
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In a time when there was no social safety net , a fourth of all workers were unemployed.
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The focus of the so-called reform is to decentralize social safety net programs, transferring money and jurisdiction to the 50 states.
wide
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One possibility seems to be that s.61 was intended to cast a wider net of liability than s.62.
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They subsequently directed their personnel officials to cast a wider net when searching for potential employees.
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The Contempt of Court Act 1991 spreads a wider net over everyone who reports or handles news.
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The network has to cast a wide net for this talent.
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A wide net helps to prevent this happening and also allows the fish to turn round if they want to.
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Man and algae sealed in the capsule divorced themselves from the wide net woven by the rest of life.
■ NOUN
drift
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The decision coincided with reports that at least four Cornish skippers had recently bought drift nets of up to four miles long.
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Sea World freed three gray whales in 1988 which had been tangled in drift nets .
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For many years the use of drift nets on the high seas has been banned altogether.
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In 1988 Sea World freed three gray whales that had become tangled in drift nets .
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He rejected claims by environmentalists that drift nets led to overfishing.
effect
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The net effect of these measures has been to give greater autonomy to the central government.
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The net effect is thus to balance and harmonize the energy flow.
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If both good and bad effects apply to the whole body, the net effect can still be good for the body.
gain
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By 1989, there were 3,000 -a net gain of 1,200 in office functions, retailing and small firms in nursery workshops.
income
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Are your monthly credit payments more than 15-20 percent of your net income , excluding rent or mortgage?
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So the recent fall in house-moving business would have cut gross income by about a fifth and net income by much more.
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Also, some people do deals on the net income .
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Over the period 1979-1987, the average total net income of this group rose by 31%.
landing
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My chair and everything apart from the rod, landing net and loaf, are left up the bank.
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As the trout began to tire, I fumbled for the landing net .
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They got their rods and landing nets together and set off for home.
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Then I fetch my rod, landing net , loaf and rod-rest.
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Use a large landing net , somewhat larger than the size of fish you hope to catch.
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You need only one landing net , one keepnet, one set of scales, etc. if you fish close to each other.
loss
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Receipts were down from £1,406 to £863 and a net loss of £160 on the year was returned.
mosquito
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There are two entrances both with mosquito nets .
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A mosquito net was providentially suspended above the bed; the creek was certain to be thick with insects when night fell.
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There are also two inner pockets and a mosquito net in each door.
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No breath of air stirred the Collector's mosquito net .
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To protect people from being bitten they must be educated and persuaded to use insect repellents and mosquito nets .
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I lay under my mosquito net and waited.
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Both inner doors have mosquito nets at each end and the headroom inside the tent is excellent.
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Apparently no one ever thought of using mosquito nets .
profit
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Your net profit is 5 percent on sales.
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The amount that is left after the retailer has paid his overheads is called net profit .
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The group had a net profit margin of 30% last year.
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Between 1979 and 1982 there was a reduction in farm net profit of almost 44%.
result
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Furthermore, simple measurements of sediment at a point represent only the net result of all the processes going on upstream.
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The net result is the concentration of effective power in the hands of the government.
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The net result is that, however one mixes the energy cake, carbon dioxide emissions go on increasing.
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The net result of Honderich's weakness as an historian of ideas is that his book slips into confusion.
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The net result is that the total energy return is less than the input.
safety
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The big entitlement programs should be privatized, he says, leaving only a low safety net for the indigent.
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The Endangered Species Act is a safety net that comes into play when other environmental and conservation laws have failed.
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Two-wheel drive gives better stability and traction in all conditions, but just as importantly is a powerful psychological safety net .
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However, States said the new program is providing a better safety net for the drought-plagued wheat growers of the Great Plains.
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The material researchers provide makes a great safety net .
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They are a fundamental part of the social safety net and have kept the poverty rate among the elderly relatively low.
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It now looks as if that safety net is never going to be needed.
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Two factors form a reliable safety net for the F-22 program: The Air Force really, really wants it.
worth
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In most economies the bulk of net worth is attributable to the personal sector, i.e. private individuals.
■ VERB
buy
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The decision coincided with reports that at least four Cornish skippers had recently bought drift nets of up to four miles long.
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Then you would make enough to buy nylon nets .
cast
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But this festival casts its net beyond the musical world.
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They subsequently directed their personnel officials to cast a wider net when searching for potential employees.
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One possibility seems to be that s.61 was intended to cast a wider net of liability than s.62.
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The network has to cast a wide net for this talent.
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It is clearly possible that we are not casting our net sufficiently wide.
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I cast my net wide enough to find parents who vary from house cleaner to fashion designer to electrician to corporate manager.
catch
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Burglary - where it's reckoned that a only tiny proportion are ever caught - nets £590 million.
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The symbolism was extended to the gorge itself Blondin had literally caught it in his net .
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This is because most of the fish is caught in double nets by the motor boats and ships.
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I catch them in my net .
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Every one that hits the net ought to be caught - provided the net has been set properly.
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The actual death toll is much greater because thousands more turtles are caught in fishing nets and suffocate.
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Abraham is caught in Ephron's net .
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Built circa 1880, bits drop off the outside and have to be caught in a wire net hung over the door.
fish
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The actual death toll is much greater because thousands more turtles are caught in fishing nets and suffocate.
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These are floats, blown from bottle glass, and used to hold up fishing nets .
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There were many anchored wooden boats with large outboard motors, but strangely, there were few fishing nets .
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I thought about my brother, when I broke that fishing net .
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The harbour porpoise is vulnerable to drowning in fishing nets .
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His dock was strewn with beer cans, oil drums, fishing nets .
pay
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Its fixed-interest bond pays 11.50 percent net provided the money is tied up for at least 12 months.. Key move on cards.
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But the ability to pay for safety nets is just one of the social effects of having an educated population.
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Term accounts are no longer offered by the society, but the share account is now paying only 1.88 p.c. net .
provide
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It can provide a safety net for children in danger as well as for those who have socially or emotionally lost their way.
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However, States said the new program is providing a better safety net for the drought-plagued wheat growers of the Great Plains.
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The government's starting point with regard to block funding was that they would not provide a safety net .
set
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It is easiest if the man carrying the stake walks behind the net and the man setting the net walks in front of it.
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All around us small fishing boats were wheeling and stopping as they set and retrieved nets .
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These men and women work through the night, hauling in the fish, then setting out their nets again.
slip
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Graham, on the other hand, had nearly slipped through the net .
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No one knows how many have slipped through the net .
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Even with the former region's history of testing in primaries, children continue to slip through the net .
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Alan Garcia, Fujimori's predecessor, slipped the net .
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Her foot slipped suddenly through the net .
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This one slipped through the net .
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Paul Merton slipped through the net .
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Several other counties are already regretting that he slipped through the net .
spread
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Conversation was desultory for we were all exhausted though Mandeville declared that tomorrow he would spread his net .
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It was argued in Chapter 2 that the criminal law ought to spread its net wider where the potential harm is greater.
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The Contempt of Court Act 1991 spreads a wider net over everyone who reports or handles news.
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Furse spread his net wide, but it did not sink deep.
surf
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We give them quizzes on Britain and allow them to surf the net .
use
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As the Rattlesnake beat across the seas, Huxley trawled for specimens of sea creatures using an improvised net .
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A rarely used volleyball net stood lonely in the dirt and weeds.
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Only 12 types of links were used in the semantic net that supported the final draft of the Hypertext book.
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A February 1989 Fortune article reported that Ford, for example, was using neural nets to spot faulty paint finishes.
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Apparently no one ever thought of using mosquito nets .
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Coracles using nets were banned from the Wye in the twenties.
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Wilfrid followed this up by teaching the people how to use nets .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Net/Internet/Web surfer
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Netscape hooked millions of web surfers on Navigator by letting them have it for free.
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Online newspapers: Web surfers are showing strong interest in online news.
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Relatively few sites are so compelling that Web surfers make it a point to visit every day.
cast your net (far and) wide
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I cast my net wide enough to find parents who vary from house cleaner to fashion designer to electrician to corporate manager.
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We cast our net wider and in a different direction.
crawl the Net/web
slip through the net
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Even with the former region's history of testing in primaries, children continue to slip through the net.
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Graham, on the other hand, had nearly slipped through the net.
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In a child-centred class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing.
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No one knows how many have slipped through the net.
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Paul Merton slipped through the net.
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Several other counties are already regretting that he slipped through the net.
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This one slipped through the net.
surf the Net/Internet
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A recent survey shows that about half of all users surf the Net from their homes.
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At the other end of the spectrum is the so-called Internet appliance, the very low-cost device for just surfing the Net.
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It was the year of spinoffs, surging financial markets and surfing the Net.
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So a user could be surfing the Net at warp speed while talking on the phone.
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Surveys show millions of workers use their office computers to play games, surf the Net or worse.
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That means you can surf the Net and talk on the phone at the same time over one line.
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We give them quizzes on Britain and allow them to surf the net.
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Who spends an inordinate number of work hours surfing the Internet?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a fishing net
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The bride wore a veil made of ivory net .
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The puck went straight into the net .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By the production line stand basketball nets and ping-pong tables for use during breaks.
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Clips for fixing and joining the nets are available from some cage and netting manufacturers.
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Humpback whales have even been seen to weave a snare of air-bubbles - a bubble net .
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If intervention remains, it should be reduced to the original concept of a safety net for use in extreme emergencies.
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It swipes the underside of the net .
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Mosquito netting: inner door flaps can be unzipped independently from the net .
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Nicholas Branch has unpublished state documents, polygraph reports, Dictabelt recordings from the police radio net on November 22.
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The fishermen will have to use turtle excluder devices in their nets, which allow turtles to escape before they drown.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
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These would spend a larger proportion of their incomes and so net savings would be reduced.
■ NOUN
asset
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Unit trusts are permitted to operate a spread as wide as 15 percent of the net asset value of the fund.
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It is the price of the bonds that determines the net asset value of bond funds.
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Launch costs are capped at 3.5 percent, giving a net asset value after launch of 96.5 percent of gross proceeds.
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This may be particularly important in service industries where there may be limited net asset backing.
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It continues to place strong emphasis on tight cost controls and has seen net assets rise 14% to £26.9m.
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A pro-forma statement of the combined companies' net assets was £294m.
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Prices based on a multiple of earnings tend to require more detailed and thorough completion accounts than net asset value based prices.
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Stock analysts have written down the bank's net asset value by a correspondingly precise sum.
benefit
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Ultimately the net benefits from insider dealing must equal the net losses.
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This study finds evidence for net benefits for all the member states.
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There would be no net benefit to training.
cash
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In other words, it is the rate that equates future net cash flows to the initial investment outlay.
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Total inflows minus total outflows results in the predicted net cash gain or loss during the month.
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The Wetherby, Yorkshire company now has £600,000 net cash .
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National Medical generated $ 193 million in net cash from operations in 1994.
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It was easily affordable: the rights issue last year strengthened the finances and left year end net cash of £77m.
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After starting last year with net debt of £6.3m, it now has net cash of almost £4m.
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The problem with a high-tech start-up is that you have a net cash outflow.
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Despite the costs of launching Carlton Television, the company still has a strong balance sheet, with net cash of £50.3m.
curtain
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He walked to the chair and looked through the grubby net curtain .
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In all of them hang net curtains .
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He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains .
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Neighbours had watched discreetly through parted net curtains .
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The net curtains were planets of watery growth.
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Outside, the once-respectable semis have crooked To Let signs and greying net curtains .
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A net curtain stirs at the window, diffusing the sharpness of the outside world.
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Beyond the window, a screen whose net curtains looked poised to fall, Karen heard voices.
earnings
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In most cases the imputation system ensures that nil and net earnings are the same.
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It had net earnings of $ 2. 2 million on sales of $ 32. 3 million last year.
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Its reported net earnings are therefore lower than the reported nil earnings of firm A even though its taxable earnings are the same.
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Safilo reported net earnings of 312 billion lire in the first nine months of 1995, up 25 percent from 1994.
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Farr calculated the contribution of workers to economic growth by estimating the future net earnings of labourers dying at different ages.
effect
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The net effect of superimposing habituation on imprinting would be to displace the preference away from the familiar.
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In both these cases, the net effect upon equilibrium price will be zero; price will not change.
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The net effect of the application of the liberal model for developing work with the unemployed is thus somewhat muted and minimal.
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The net effect is to paralyze the organization in the present.
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But the net effect has been to leave exactly the same number dependent upon means-tested assistance.
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Ultimately, the net effect of the Bettelheim uproar was-not much.
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The net effect of strategy 2 is to exchange dollars for 1 at the end of the year.
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The net effect of all these changes is hard to estimate.
exporter
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Areas with the highest levels of unemployment are likely to be net exporters of population.
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Hence the country with the lower p will be a net exporter of manufactured products.
gain
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A closed system is a system in which there is no net gain or loss of matter in the system.
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Between 1989 and 1991, large companies with 500 or more employees contributed a net gain of only 122, 000 jobs.
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Society would make a net gain by producing more films.
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Florida had a net gain of 127, 180, followed by California with about 61, 000.
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In the 1990s, the South had a net gain of 326,000 adult blacks from the rest of the country.
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But the Democratic Party needs a net gain of only 20 seats.
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There is a net gain to both countries equivalent to areas 2 + 4.
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You pay taxes on your share of the net gains achieved by the fund manager.
importer
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They expect to be net importers of a variety of items - varying from computers to television programming.
income
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I would point out how much better pensioners have done under this Government than under our predecessor in terms of pensioners' net incomes .
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That produced net income of $ 126 million, or 37 cents a share.
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Very few professional men then could expect a net income of £2,000 a year by the age of forty.
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Taking the charge more slowly increases net income and makes a company look more profitable.
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Its net income rose to $ 525m from $ 434m a year ago.
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This procedure, known as the capitalization of costs, also increases net income .
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The conventional view of poverty is based solely on the distribution of net incomes .
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An increase in the net income of the wage-earners is therefore assured.
increase
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In a system that encodes information in terms of patterns of activity information processing could be going on without a net increase in metabolism.
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Florida and California had the highest net increase of immigrants resettling from one state to another.
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In short, the outcome is allocatively inefficient: a rearrangement of resources would produce a net increase in the satisfaction of wants.
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With those operations closing, it is not expected to result in a net increase in permanent jobs.
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A two-thirds vote would only be required if changes result in a net increase in taxes.
interest
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It had net interest income of $ 3. 05 million in the 1994 period.
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The net interest charge increased significantly in the second half of the year, reflecting the year's cash outflow.
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It received net interest and dividends in the 1990 fiscal year that accounted for more than 20% of its operating profits.
investment
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So long as demand stays at 1,000 units, no net investment will take place.
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The Accelerator Theory relates net investment to the rate of change of output.
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Notice here that although demand has risen from year 2 to year 3, net investment has remained the same.
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Or there's cash flow, the difference between cash income minus net investment , which averages £15,700.
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Economic earnings are therefore equal to reported earnings plus new external funds less net investment .
loss
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Ultimately the net benefits from insider dealing must equal the net losses .
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But the New York-based company continued its string of yearly losses , ending 1995 with a net loss of $ 124 million.
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Thus there is no net loss or gain over the period of time.
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Even so-called liberation movements nearly always resulted in net losses for women.
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It had a net loss of $ 5. 3 million, or 14 cents a share.
proceeds
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CrossCom says that it plans to use the net proceeds for new product development and for working capital.
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Foundation treasurer Alan Wilson said net proceeds are about $ 182, 000, with about 11, 000 pairs to sell.
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The net proceeds will be used to buy capital equipment, fund leasehold improvements and facilities expansion, and for working capital.
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It said it will use the net proceeds to acquire long-life natural gas reserves and exploit development opportunities.
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Immediately after issue the amount attributable to an instrument within non-equity shareholders' funds should be the net proceeds of the issue.
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The net proceeds from the issue of equity shares and warrants for equity shares should be credited directly to shareholders' funds.
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Immediately after issue, debt should be stated at the amount of the net proceeds . 25.
profit
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Fujitsu says it expects to break even in 1993-94, with zero net profit .
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That product line now produces over 20 percent of our net profits .
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The balance of the profit and loss account represents the net profit or loss for the accounting period.
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For the first nine months of 1991 net profits rose 3 percent to £857m and turnover rose 3 percent to £1545m.
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Nestle posted 1994 net profit of 2. 94 billion francs, before items.
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Analysts reckon the company's net profit probably halved last year, to around 500 billion lire.
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The preliminary figures were below many analysts' predictions of 125 billion in net profit .
receipt
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In particular, it is recognised that agents may use some assets as a buffer-stock against unforeseen changes in net receipts .
result
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The net result is that the lack of that information results in the application being delayed for many months.
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The net result would probably be active combat that could end in a draw.
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The net result of these antagonistic effects was that no significant change in soluble calcium was observed.
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The net result of war making by way of symbols is to widen the actual gap between luxury and poverty.
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The net result , say some officials, is that foreign money has frequently ended up fertilising or irrigating opium fields.
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The net result of this change is that return on sales will increase to 11. 9 percent.
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The net result is that fewer drugs adapted to the needs of the poor are in development.
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Yet the net result of his pages of lists is to create a curious abundance-effect.
sale
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Therefore there was a net sale of 5.4 billion of new gilts to the private sector.
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Fourthquarter 1995 net sales , Digital Link said, were about $ 10 million, in line with year-earlier levels.
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Business machines accounted for 81.3 percent of net sales as demand for cameras and other optical products slipped, it said.
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Case had 1994 net sales of $ 4. 3 billion.
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Excluding the mergers, net sales for 1995 rose 28 % to $ 928 million.
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Posted net sales of $ 246 million in 1996.
worth
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It has net worth of £430 million and net debt of £325 million.
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Associates was well-financed, when the firm had a negative net worth .
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My net worth dropped to zero.
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In 1994, after the killings, his net worth was $ 11 million.
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You now make $ 85, 000, and you have a net worth .
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A more sophisticated way of assessing federal debt would be to try to compute our net worth by subtracting debt from assets.
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His net worth was estimated at $ 11 million only four years ago at the time of his divorce.
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Forbes has declined to release such forms or to declare his net worth .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Foreign investors were net buyers, though some were waiting for a market drop to allow bargain-hunting.
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It is the price of the bonds that determines the net asset value of bond funds.
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Orange is expected to break even in net income terms by 1998.
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Ronson told bankers that the March 31 accounts would show net assets had fallen to £135 million compared with £585 million previously.
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That account tells us the amount of net payments over receipts compared with the budgeted figures.
III. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fish
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A total of 144 anglers netted 462 fish .
goal
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Craighton added a fifth for Chatteris and Dave Lee netted a consolation goal for the Shrimpers four minutes from time.
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Leading scorer Tommy Mooney netted his eleventh goal of the campaign on 38 minutes.
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Matthias Sammer netted both goals in the second half to keep Dortmund in third place.
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Wegerle also netted the third goal , in the final minute, from an obviously offside position.
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Don Goodman, later to be transferred for £1 million to Sunderland, netted the only goal .
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He netted 9 goals for United.
mosquito
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Finally I took the mosquito netting from a nail out the barn.
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Uncle Michael on a metal bed, cocooned in a fold of army blanket under mosquito netting , drawing ragged breaths.
profit
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Another deal made while he was still in office helped net a handsome profit for his wife, Honey.
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In the first half, net profit more than doubled to 1. 86 billion francs.
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In financial terms, net parental profit has never been so negative.
safety
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If the top leaders fail, there's no safety net , no recourse.
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Trapeze artists, firefighters and high-rise building workers rely on safety nets for protection.
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The unbending insistence on fiscal retrenchment, whatever the impact on countries with non-existent social safety nets , should be rethought.
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But, where can investors now find safety nets ?
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The law career had been my safety net for many years by then.
www
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Call 791-2263 for information, or see their website at www . pfu. net / upstairs.
■ VERB
expect
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Action against the trusts alone is expected to net the Treasury £ 500m.
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The event, expected to net more than $ 1 million, was sponsored by the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.
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She said she had expected to net $ 10, 000 from the $ 1 million drug scheme.
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He is expected to net £ 6m.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Net/Internet/Web surfer
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Netscape hooked millions of web surfers on Navigator by letting them have it for free.
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Online newspapers: Web surfers are showing strong interest in online news.
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Relatively few sites are so compelling that Web surfers make it a point to visit every day.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An undercover drug sweep netted 22 suspects in one evening.
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Donna got a raise in February, but she's still only netting $19,000 a year.
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For the first three months of 1990, Starcorp netted $547 million.
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Measure A netted only 58 percent of the vote.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few folks probably got buzzed and the sale netted $ 125.
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But town have netted only around half that in sales.
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The event, expected to net more than $ 1 million, was sponsored by the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.
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The lake is commercially netted by licensed fishermen.