Sentence examples for costa from inspiring English sources

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costa

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A rib.

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Elsewhere Carnival has dropped 56p to £25.19 after it announced - after the UK market closed - a higher than expected hit from voyage disruptions and repair costa of $0.08 to $0.10 a share.

"I was a little gobsmacked by it and I understood he had a purpose for this but I did not know it," Costa said of the run-in.

"There was a group of us who had dinner together on a Tuesday night [at parliament] … I was sitting beside Mr Obeid at the time and was told 'Keep away from Ms Schott – they're coming after her,' " Costa said.

"In my normal way, I probably would have said, 'I'll look into it.' " Costa said Obeid began to lobby him about AWH within a month of him becoming a minister and he had a conversation with Obeid in which Obeid suggested a corruption complaint may be made against Schott.

When asked who was coming after Schott, Costa replied: "He did mention it was someone on the central coast and I dismissed it, to be honest".

The original misattributed words spoken by Laurie Brown to Phillip Costa and mistakenly said Costa said he may have given instructions for the cabinet minute to be changed and admitted making alterations.

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The 50-year-old and his partner Veronica Ojeda were taken to hospital after the car he was driving reportedly hit a bus, hours before Argentina's Copa América win against Costa Rica.

It was shortlisted for the 2008 John Llewellyn-Rhys Memorial Prize and the 2009 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and won a Somerset Maugham Award and the 2008 Costa Poetry Award.

We won't have September data for a few days, but as of the end of August, total outflows had hit $68.8bn – more than the GDP of either Croatia or Costa Rica, and double all the fixed income assets managed by Janus Capital Group, Gross's new employer.

Rescue operations were on hold Monday as rough seas buffeted the Costa Concordia.

Costa Coffee sales rose by 7.1% in the last three months against the backdrop of protests and boycotts against its closest rival Starbucks because of the US chain's controversial tax arrangements.

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