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  • Your computation, for instance, assumes that the 60% is an average by value not by number of bottles, even though it might be reasonable to assume that makers of highly-priced wines would be more likely to send free samples than those of lower-priced bottles.

    Does the Wine Advocate buy over $700,000 worth of wine a year? | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

  • Demand for highly-priced houses drops as a result: sellers at a higher price point are selling to a smaller pool.

    Matthew Yglesias » Mortgage Plan Analysis 2009

  • Can you become a millionaire by marketing ice cream as a highly-priced luxury lifestyle choice when really you're just selling cold fat and sugar mixed up together in a box?

    SLACKERJACK – Fish Tycoon 2007

  • We entered the Dubai Creek Golf Club ooo… to find a highly-priced restaurant with waiters in suits, and expected my Birkenstock-clad feet to be turned back at the door.

    Kyle’s Journey in Armenia » Blog Archive » Vacation - Part I - Armenia and Dubai 2007

  • TV ads are highly-priced because of all sorts of factors including branding, habit and the potential for advertisers to reach a mass audience.

    Google PPC Video Ads – Why I’m Betting Against It Michael Arrington 2005

  • The initial result of this step was highly-priced KCJs.

    Chapter 6 1993

  • That such horses, with sufficient exercise, go better and more safely across country than those brought forward by more hasty methods, is sufficiently proved by the fact that all our steeplechase riders in the Army take the greatest pains to prepare their horses thoroughly (by school methods understood), because experience shows that this preparation alone gives them a chance against the more highly-priced animals with which they are called on to compete.

    Cavalry in Future Wars Friedrich von Bernhardi 1889

  • It was one of those highly-priced private hotels in the New Out.

    Much Darker Days Andrew Lang 1878

  • He acquired such stars as David Ortiz, Curt Schilling, Jason Bay and Adrian Gonzalez, though he will be remembered for bringing in highly-priced players who fell short, including Edgar Renteria, Daisuke Matsuzaka, John Lackey.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • He acquired such stars as David Ortiz, Curt Schilling, Jason Bay and Adrian Gonzalez, though he will be remembered for bringing in highly-priced players who fell short, including Edgar Renteria, Daisuke Matsuzaka, John Lackey.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed RICK GANO 2011

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