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- noun Plural form of
tenancy .
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Examples
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Questions mainly relate to matters of rent when properties are damaged, ability to exit term tenancies, and processes for getting repairs completed.
NZ On Screen 2010
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While, perhaps surprisingly, not many were keen on any changes to promote longer-term tenancies.
Rent increases slow but more tenants fall behind on payments 2011
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Darian believes the biggest issue facing private renters is the fact that in the UK landlords tend to offer short-term tenancies of six months to a year, with a two-month notice period.
Angry and insecure – the renting Britons with no hope of buying a home 2010
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Some delegates were unhappy that a motion condemning David Cameron's comments suggesting the coalition might end fixed-term tenancies for council housing did not make it on to the floor.
Lib Dem whip threatens to resign over Trident as delegates demand review 2010
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He said Labour had floated the idea of fixed-term tenancies in the past, but "very quickly withdrew it because they saw the pitfalls".
Lib Dem discontent as Simon Hughes attacks Cameron's plan to introduce fixed-tenure council houses 2010
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This Government's tentative reforms of social housing (in the form of shorter-term tenancies) raise a bigger question: should we award housing on the basis of "need" or "desert"?
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Mr Shapps told the BBC the fixed term tenancies would be
BBC News - Home 2010
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The document says that new fixed term tenancies would have "a minimum time period of at least two years but no maximum time period".
BBC News - Home 2010
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"Some fixed-term tenancies were ending and landlords or tenants were unclear whether they were staying or going."
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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Landlords who last year locked into long-term tenancies are now trying to revoke them and renegotiate rents, which are rising 15 per cent or more annually in prime parts of London.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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