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sth "drives" sales |
it cause sale to increase
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Stars help drive dvd sales
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revenue
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money that a bussiness receive/produce by selling goods or services,income
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Total revenue for the year was estimated at N68,730 million
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announcement
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sth that is said in public or media/official or important statemnet
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He made this announcement at the Board of Trustees' annual retreat.
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reduce
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decrease/fall
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Benefits will be reduced by $50 for each child who fails to attend school.
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be in talk
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if sb is "in talk" he/she is disscussing sth
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the announcement that Tom Cruise was "in talks" to play a leading role in the film The Last Samurai increased the film’s expected revenue by $28 million.
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leading role/starring role
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main part in a film/the most important role
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A young actor named Johnny Deppe was given the leading role.
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to gross
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to make an amount of money before tax
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The animated film "Jungle Book" grossed $7.7 million.
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to earn
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to make an amount of money
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Alan earns $30,000 a year.
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a law budget film
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a film that is produced with very little money
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budget
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amount of money to do/produce sth
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His first budget, in 1991, contained a $ 7 billion tax increase.
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won't make any difference
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won't affect anything
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tend to do sth
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if sth tend to happen, it happens often and is likely to happen again
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What tends to happen is that the poorest families end up in the worst housing.
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successful movie
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make a lot of money |
ET: The Extra-Terrestrial and the original Star Wars series didn’t need stars to make them successful. |
