long lease
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But the prince has a long lease with the Crown Estate and has shown no signs of wanting to budge.
From BBC • Jan. 6, 2024
The biggest difference is the time frame: Rather than being tied to a years’ long lease, subscriptions give you the ability to “own” a car on a month-to-month basis.
From Slate • Dec. 2, 2017
He can make such flat rejections because, even though he doesn’t own his building, he holds an extremely long lease.
From Washington Times • Mar. 12, 2017
SOM had been hired by Larry Silverstein, the developer who bought a long lease on the towers in the summer of 2001, a few weeks before they fell, and they were still his architects.
From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2011
He, my brother discovered, was not the owner of the place, as we had naturally imagined, but only rented it on a very long lease from some ladies of the name of Fitzgerald.
From Four Ghost Stories by Molesworth, Mrs.
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