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- noun Plural form of
box-office .
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Examples
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The increased revenue which would be paid into theater box-offices would, at present prices, amount to nearly $500,000,000 annually.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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After dozens of epic box-offices failures, you'd think the studio would've gone under by now.
Harrison Ford is Back Again in the Crossing Over Trailer « FirstShowing.net 2008
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On every side luxurious theatres reared their stately facades, box-offices open for business invited all to enter, obstreperous ticket speculators jostled passersby in their eagerness to sell their seats.
The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life Eugene Walter 1907
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United States should ought to be going around looking as sore as fellers that sell tickets in theater box-offices, and when any one asks 'em why, they should say: 'Ain't it just my luck!
Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things Montague Glass 1905
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Author J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" book series have sold some 450 million copies worldwide and the eight movies from the Warner Bros. studios have taken more than $7.7 billion at global box-offices, making the films the largest-grossing franchise in history.
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One of the more surprising box-offices success of the year in America, we're told, is
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph David Gritten 2011
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One of the more surprising box-offices success of the year in America, we're told, is
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph David Gritten 2011
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Author J.K Rowling's Harry Potter book series have sold some 450 million copies worldwide and the eight movies from the Warner Bros studios have taken more than $7.7 billion at global box-offices, making Harry Potter the largest-grossing film franchise in history.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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It was already the biggest ever hit at the US and global box-offices (beating Titanic in both cases), so
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It was already the biggest ever hit at the US and global box-offices (beating Titanic in both cases), so
Film | guardian.co.uk Charles Gant 2010
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