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  • Regent Inns, which is burdened with heavy debts, has witnessed its share price fall off a cliff, after dropping 96\% to 2. 83p over the past 12 months.

    This is Money | Home 2008

  • Opening off from Chancery Lane are various other small lanes, quiet, dingy nooks, some of them in the guise of streets going no whither, some being thoroughfares to other dingy streets beyond, in which sponging-houses abound, and others existing as the entrances to so-called Inns of Court -- inns of which all knowledge has for years been lost to the outer world of the laity, and, as I believe, lost almost equally to the inner world of the legal profession.

    Can You Forgive Her? 1993

  • Opening off from Chancery Lane are various other small lanes, quiet, dingy nooks, some of them in the guise of streets going no whither, some being thoroughfares to other dingy streets beyond, in which sponging-houses abound, and others existing as the entrances to so-called Inns of Court — inns of which all knowledge has for years been lost to the outer world of the laity, and, as I believe, lost almost equally to the inner world of the legal profession.

    Can you forgive her? 1864

  • College, or Hall, or "Inns" of St John, to which repeated reference is made in the oldest manuscript records of the University.

    The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell

  • "Inns," in our sense of the term, were anciently unknown in the East, and now they are not common.

    Barnes New Testament Notes 1949

  • The Benchers of the Inns are the authority, and even the objection of a single barrister would be fatal. '"

    My day : reminiscences of a long life, 1909

  • Also, quite a lot of the properties were conversions from other brands or conversions of good Holiday Inns into Crowne Plazas.

    Hotelier Gets Face-Lift to Draw Young Travelers Kris Hudson 2011

  • The colorful goings-on at the Yotel—where rooms go for $150 a night—arguably also shows that despite the onslaught of Mickey Mouse mannequins and Holiday Inns, the old spirit of Times Square is alive and well.

    Hotel Offers Rooms With Risqué Views Laura Kusisto 2011

  • Goldman's scramble to retain the Tharaldson hotels comes nearly three months after it restructured $1.1 billion of debt on 132 Equity Inns that it bought in 2007.

    Goldman Real Estate Fund Bets On Hotel Comeback Kris Hudson 2011

  • My parents were on a tour of Holiday Inns in Canada (with their band), so I spent that summer re-living the entire flick in an endless succession of Holiday Inn pools.

    Retroist Podcast – Episode 040 – Jaws - The Retroist 2010

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