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NZ informal preferential rates of payment offered to a friend

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How to use mate's rates in a sentence

Rates are thought to be similar in developed countries around the world.
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Disordered eating is also linked to higher rates of depression and anxiety, both in the present and in the future.
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Girls raised in households with more equitable fathers show lower rates of unwanted sex.
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And then I said, ‘Well, chief, when the admiral comes aboard, the first mate has to pipe him in.’
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“A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.
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The lack of bill buyers in foreign countries who will quote as low rates on dollar as on sterling bills.
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Ajoutez cecy, s'il vous plaist, la grande difficult qu'il y a de tirer d'eux les mots mesmes qu'ils ont.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
In future years the poor-rate (so-called) will include, in addition to these, all other rates levyable by the Corporation.
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When he returned to the hotel he kissed his incongruous room-mate with the gentleness of a woman.
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Neantmoins le vieil Membertou, pere du malade, conceut asss l'affaire, et me promit qu'on s'arresteroit tout ce que j'en dirois.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various