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  • Lock-up restrictions that prevent shareholders from selling their stock for 180 days after an IPO expired Sunday, making about 24 million additional shares eligible to be sold.

    LinkedIn Shares Sag as Insiders Sell Shayndi Raice 2011

  • Is it more like The Lock-up at Belmont and California in Chicago?

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  • He was detained overnight at the Senai Police Station Lock-up.

    Widow Says Government Is Guilty. 2007

  • At the other end of the market-place stood the _Lock-up House_, the

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • The Lock-up House is a sort of jail, built of stone -- about fifteen feet square, and originally designed as a place of confinement for slaves taken up by the patrol.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Lock-up House, or leaned against the Whipping Post, in careless chat, that harmless defiance which would prompt one to beard the dead lion.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Lock-up was still at six, so at a quarter to that hour they slipped down into the vault, and took up their position.

    The Gold Bat 1928

  • Lock-up was still at six, so at a quarter to that hour they slipped down into the vault, and took up their position.

    The Gold Bat 1928

  • Lock-up was still at six, so at a quarter to that hour they slipped down into the vault, and took up their position.

    The Gold Bat 1928

  • Lock-up was not till a quarter past six -- six o'clock nominally, but the doors were always left open till a quarter past.

    Tales of St. Austin's 1928

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