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Slower-than-expected revenue growth from the lodger's tax, the highway user's tax, the occupational privelage tax and certain other fees, as well as the anticipated slowing of income tax revenues account for the increased shortfall.
John Hickenlooper Tells City Staffers To Brace For More Cuts 2010
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Catching a whiff of sex, they peer round the lodger's door to watch him making out with his girlfriend.
Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie 2010
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Other specific objections were made - for example, SACTU called for an end to the 'lodger's fee', whereby the Municipality could charge for children sixteen years or over living at home with their parents.
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A holder or guarantee in respect of whose premises a lodger's permit has been issued shall forthwith report to the superintendent the fact of the lodger ceasing to reside in his dwelling or on his site.
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No person other than a holder or grantee or the family of such holder or grantee shall remain in the township for longer than thirty days unless he shall first have obtained a lodger's permit.
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It did not occur to her that Betty had taken it from their lodger's closet.
A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia Alice Turner Curtis
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So much for Madame Stepniak, and her account of her lodger's simple existence: one which furnishes us no little insight into the process and progress of that inner impetus towards a career so far from his inherited position: a yearning, from which he had suffered acutely up to the time of his sudden freedom.
The Genius Margaret Horton Potter
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Fortunately Miss Kling did not observe her lodger's looks, so intent was she in admiration of Mr. Fishblate's fine points, and soon took her leave.
Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes Ella Cheever Thayer
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The widow's colour was heightened, but she had grown accustomed to her lodger's abrupt manner of speaking, so she took no notice of his remark, and he went on, --
The Boy Artist. A Tale for the Young F. M. S.
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The dear old lady could hardly understand this great change in her lodger's circumstances.
The Adventures of a Boy Reporter Harry Steele Morrison
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