I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a daily/weekly diary
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Clarke kept a daily diary of San Franciscan life.
a daily/weekly/Sunday newspaper (= one that is published every day/week/Sunday )
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Do you get a daily newspaper?
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/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.
the annual/monthly/weekly rent
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Our annual rent is just over $15000.
the hourly/weekly rate (= the amount someone is paid per hour or per week )
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Women have lower hourly rates of pay than men.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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twice
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The medium was changed twice weekly .
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Each week, sometimes twice weekly , food stores advertise their specials in the local newspapers.
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Standards of service are very high, with twice weekly linen changes.
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Through his twice weekly plasma sales, Willingham has helped Scheard and others buy clothes and food or pay bus fare.
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He managed with twice weekly meals on wheels, and social work support.
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Spray with a soap-based insecticide twice weekly until clear.
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It was painted purple with the company name in white and made the journey to London twice weekly .
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Most of the schools welcomed parents hearing children read, from once or twice weekly to nightly.
■ NOUN
basis
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We asked them if they had vomited or abused laxatives and asked them to record their weight on a weekly basis .
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A president who works hard on issues like these will not see his ratings go up on weekly basis .
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Fairness demanded that the throne be rotated among the players, usually on a weekly basis .
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Out here you have to prove yourself on a daily basis; a weekly basis .
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The school might, for example, recommend that musical activity takes place on a weekly basis .
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While at the work site, students keep journals that their supervisors read and annotate on a weekly basis .
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Both sides also agreed to exchange information on a weekly basis between senior military commanders on troop deployments and movements.
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After-care sessions initially on a weekly basis but later less frequently, are recommended for up to two years.
benefit
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Any overpayment of weekly benefit should be deducted from the capital benefit.
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He registered with Langbaurgh housing authority, but with weekly benefit of about £33, accommodation was difficult to find.
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Payment under items 1, 2 or 3 of the Policy would stop any weekly benefit which was being paid.
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The weekly benefit payable will be shown in the Policy Schedule.
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His maximum weekly benefit is 80% of £4.00 £3.20. 2.
class
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There's more to Medau than just attending your local weekly class !
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Raven ran a weekly class on the New Testament.
column
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Before his Colette-Willy period he had contributed a weekly column of musical criticism to a Bordeaux newspaper.
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Six weeks after I got there, my wish to write a weekly column was fulfilled.
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Perhaps unbeknown to you, the first lady has been churning out a weekly column since July 30 of last year.
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Something of an intellectual among surfers, Lynch has a weekly column in a Sydney newspaper and an air of philosophical detachment.
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On top of the weekly columns , Brady has been a writing machine.
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He left Hollywood for Seattle, where he wrote a weekly column for the Seattle Times.
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Designing Minds is a weekly column exploring home and design issues, ideas and resources.
credit
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None of what has been said should be taken to imply criticism of weekly credit in itself.
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This generally means mail order, trading checks, and weekly credit traders.
earnings
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What rate do you pay? £52.50 or £43.50 depending on your employee's average weekly earnings .
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Between 1979 and 1993, a worker with a high school education lost 18. 2 percent in real weekly earnIngs .
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His average weekly earnings for four weeks is £54.
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How do I work out average weekly earnings ?
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Figure 9.4 considers male average gross weekly earnings .
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The result is the employee's average weekly earnings .
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The average weekly earnings of female manual workers amounted to £115.00 in 1987.
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The higher rate is 90% of your employee's average weekly earnings .
hours
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In Cumbria the average weekly hours claimed by the farmer was 77.
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Average weekly hours worked also declined.
income
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The difference in weekly income is £29.10.
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It is intended to provide a regular weekly income if you do not have enough money to live on.
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As with supplementary pension you are supposed to pay for heating out of weekly income .
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This will push his weekly income to around £3,000 - an increase of more than £2,000.
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Poorer pensioners spend much more of their weekly income on fuel than other households.
interval
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Weekly benefits are paid at four weekly intervals , in arrears, following receipt of medical certificates.
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After discharge they were reviewed at weekly intervals and the volume of feed consumed was recorded daily throughout the four week period.
journal
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In the spring a weekly journal , Bezbozhnik, was set up to conduct a popular anti-religious campaign.
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It publishes the weekly journal Science.
magazine
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Ferdinand Mount, then the Political Editor of the weekly magazine Spectator, replaced him.
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The extent to which certain species of marine fishes may be tamed was published some time ago in a popular weekly magazine .
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Even weekly magazines carry styles to match developments in the law.
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She was about to leave Options and start a new weekly magazine called Riva.
market
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Doubtless, Salisbury traders benefited from the weekly market despite the disruption to normal traffic.
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The Market Charter was obtained in 1602, and weekly markets and three fairs were held.
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But I would opt for a self-catering package which enable you to take full advantage of the excellent weekly markets .
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They now intend to go back to their original preferred scheme for a twice weekly market in nearby pedestrianised Station Road.
meeting
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However, a weekly meeting of the Sectional Heads was held when our planning was thought out.
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But nearly weekly meetings since January have produced no decision either way.
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Suppose, for example, you regularly attend a weekly meeting which tends to be deadly dull.
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What takes place at their weekly meetings is unknown.
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The weekly meetings , held on Thursdays, were megalithic in proportion.
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Members commit themselves to a weekly meeting and visitations.
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My Working Group co-operated very well together, and we enjoyed our weekly meetings .
news
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On the news-stands, there were several popular illustrated weekly news and feature magazines: Everybody's, Illustrated, Picture Post.
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In 1949 he joined Paris-Match, which was then a new weekly news magazine.
newspaper
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Q: You got your start at a weekly newspaper ?
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Thousands of people knew him from his radio and television appearances and weekly newspaper column for the Los Angeles Times.
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From Tuesday weekly newspapers may be left with a burden which, sadly, many will be unable to carry.
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Local weekly newspapers: Most towns and the suburbs of large cities have their own weekly newspapers .
paper
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The government has agreed to the re-birth of Solidarity's weekly paper .
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He approved of young Bruce, both as a boy soprano and ambitious junior reporter on the weekly paper .
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In some heavily populated areas there are separate ons of the weekly paper with different titles for neighbouring communities.
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Evening and weekly papers faced the stiffest competition at the fringes of their circulation areas.
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Regional daily and weekly papers near to the factory and offices.
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Provincial dailies got 60 percent or more, and weekly papers 80 percent, at both dates.
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The number of towns with a choice of weekly papers was down from 226 in 1961 to about 150 in 1974.
pay
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The basic weekly pay for a recruit to the fire service is £243 - rising to £305 for qualified staff.
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When we looked at the weekly pay that the workers had been getting in 1980, I was astounded.
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Some of the nurses found it a nice little earner on top of their poor weekly pay .
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Redman regularly returned his weekly pay of 3s. 4d. to the fabric fund.
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Even with overtime £3 15s to £4 would be about their maximum weekly pay .
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In 1988, the average gross weekly pay for full-time work was £246 for men, and £164 for women.
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The final component in calculating compensation is weekly pay levels.
payment
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Just one weekly payment protects all your family!
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All figures quoted below are for weekly payments .
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If the grant can not meet the whole bill some funeral directors may accept weekly payments .
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Benefits were dependent upon past contributions, and the duration of weekly payments to individuals was limited.
rate
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The daily rate is the appropriate weekly rate divided by the number of qualifying days in the week. 5.
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After that, weekly rates go to $ 627, then to $ 768 per person for two in a one-bedroom villa.
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A subcompact weekly rate , excluding taxes, insurance and petrol, can be a mere £55.
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Island transport: mainly bicycles on daily or weekly rates .
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At 100 percent assessment, the weekly rate of benefit is £71.20.
report
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Saracens 5 and here's the coach Keith Richardson with his weekly report .
shopping
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The weekly shopping for a family of 4.
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They and their families are doing their main weekly shopping and meeting to gossip with their friends.
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Your weekly shopping list will probably change; you need to think about the best ways to do this for you.
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Over-packaging adds about ten percent to our weekly shopping bill.
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With the introduction of the Barcode Battler, Christmas and weekly shopping might never be the same again.
visit
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She guessed that her weekly visits made her a regular, for the keyboard player nodded at her and the guitarist/vocalist grinned.
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It was not long before several families from Titagarh began making weekly visits to the mobile dispensary.
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Even a weekly visit by a local authority home help - when it was finally arranged - was not enough.
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I stay in bed, mostly at home, with weekly visits from a doctor and a nurse who gives me shots.
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At their weekly visits , fieldworkers were instructed to refer ill children to the clinics, according to specified criteria.
wage
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These values are not primarily the pursuit of small amounts of money paid in a weekly wage .
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Officials who packed private restaurants, where the bill for dinner exceeded their weekly wage , were plainly on the take.
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If the weekly wage were £15, however, the firm would employ four workers.
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San Pablo was a small maquila with a history of low-paid outwork at weekly wages averaging 400 pesos.
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In an era when the average gross weekly wage was about £10 this made them very expensive props indeed.
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If you are paid a weekly wage , then add it up to the monthly total and put that down and so on.
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But between 1951 and 1962 juvenile weekly wages rose by 83 percent.
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His weekly wages at this time were £11.54!
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at weekly/20-minute etc intervals
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After ingestion of sucrose, breath hydrogen was measured at 20 minute intervals for 160 minutes.
on a regular/daily/weekly etc basis
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Among stocks, only the railroads paid dividends on a regular basis .
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Because of other demands on his time, the Chancellor will not usually be a leading participant on a regular basis .
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Both will prevent you from burning and tanning, provided they are reapplied on a regular basis .
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Counselling, information and advice giving, respite from caring on a regular basis can all help.
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I hear there are very few companies in our industry who carry out a comprehensive performance review on a regular basis .
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If you like going to concerts, do so on a regular basis . 3.
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Neither you nor I nor most people embrace behavior change on a regular basis .
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The president often raises it before heavily female audiences but not on a regular basis .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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weekly ballet lessons
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Weekly rates at the hotel start at $627.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Each of these may make a daily or weekly contribution which interweave to form a family network.
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Moreover, the practice of building vocabulary through weekly spelling tests in elementary school has been largely abandoned.
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She would pay for his weekly ticket.
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The weekly claims numbers are now running at the highest level since April.
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When the survey started in 1975, the average weekly pocket money was 33 pence.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
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The average weekly and monthly figures will be based on the adjusted total.
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.
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He said the weekly is profitable, but declined to disclose details.
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The biggest drop was among the Sundays - a massive 10 million sales - and the weeklies.
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The later pattern of weeklies was further complicated by the growth of free sheets.
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The local press, particularly the weeklies, aren't usually engaged in sensational journalism.