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The plan projects central government revenue will total NT$1. 631 trillion next year, up 5.3% from the revised NT$1. 548 trillion in revenue lawm akers approved for 2010.
Taiwan's Economy Expands in Second Quarter Mason Wu 2010
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The Orations of Sp. Alpinus, their cotemporary, are very numerous: and we have several by L. and C. Aurelius Oresta, who were esteemed indifferent Sp.akers.
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Q. Q.akers (The) Reply to the Country Parson's Plea against the Q.akers
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Some men are born belly akers or grumblers, and of course always find plenty
William Bradley and Merle Davis Umstead papers (#4529). My Diary. A Soldier�s Record 1917
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"Youngster, I don't know what's the reason, but I kyan't get any of my corn to grow but them two akers o 'yourn - the dry drought is just a-burning up the rest o' my corn."
A Woman Rice Planter 1914
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"Well, you've got me; the rain's done finished the rest of the corn, but them akers of yourn jest keep on a-growin 'en a-growin', en I jest tell you now next year I plants jest about half o 'what I bin a-plantin' en I ploughs it all deep en does jest es you tells me to do."
A Woman Rice Planter 1914
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Newbury, in 1639, voted "foure akers of upland" and "sixe akers of salt marsh" to Anthony Somerby "for his encouragement to keepe schoole for one yeare," and later levied a town rate of £24 for a "schoole to be kepte at the meeting house."
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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Wall he took me into a room about two akers and a half squar, and thar wuz about two thousand of the crazyest men in thar I ever seen in all my life.
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Wall I went out in the corn field whar none of the neighbors could see me, and I'll be durned if I didn't knock down about four akers of corn, but I never got that dance right.
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Wall he took me into a room about two akers and a half squar, and thar wuz about two thousand of the crazyest men in thar I ever seen in all my life.
Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories Cal Stewart 1887
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