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Because of deep-discounting by most retailers, annuals dominated the Top 50 bestsellers for week-ending 2 January 2010, although Nielsen typically does not include titles which are discounted by 65% on average in their "Official" Top 50.
Comic Cuts: Charts w/e 2 January Steve 2010
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The week-ending or purely sporting existence of the big ‘places’ was felt to be alien to them.
Over the River 2004
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Consequently some of our week-ending legislators are reported to be interned at Waterloo and Paddington, sitting disconsolately upon their portmanteaux.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 Various
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Housman, however, did not enthuse over the rambler roses in the week-ending spirit of Brooke and the others.
Inside the Whale 1940
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He was amused at the idea of her week-ending in the stately solitude of Skuytercliff, but immediately afterward felt that there, of all places, she would most feel the chill of minds rigorously averted from the unpleasant.
XI. Book I 1920
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He was amused at the idea of her week-ending in the stately solitude of Skuytercliff, but immediately afterward felt that there, of all places, she would most feel the chill of minds rigorously averted from the ` ` unpleasant. ''
The Age of Innocence 1920
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It was an uncommonly queer situation for a perfectly innocent man, week-ending at a country house.
The Jervaise Comedy 1910
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They did a lot of week-ending at hotels, and sometimes I went down with them.
Tono Bungay 1906
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I think week-ending is apt to go to one's head, anyway.
Patty's Suitors Carolyn Wells 1902
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Housman, however, did not enthuse over the rambler roses in the week-ending spirit of Brooke and the others.
Collected Essays 1900
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