takings in English
the taking of life
box-office takings were scant
Use "takings" in a sentence
1. He counted the night's takings.
2. The takings haven't been totalled yet.
3. But the real reason the bar takings.
4. I think he creams off her takings.
5. The forecast upsurge in takings did not happen.
6. After we've closed , we count the day's takings.
7. A cashier ran away with the day's takings.
8. The raiders escaped with the takings from two tills.
9. You were after the takings, weren't you?
10. The cashier has done a bunk with the day's takings.
11. Cinema box-office takings in 2001 were ￡600m.
12. Store managers are predicting record takings this Christmas.
13. She was losing about ￡100 a week in takings.
14. Besides robbing travelers, innkeepers often supplemented their takings with earnings from prostitutes.
15. Our takings were down this week because the weather was so bad.
16. You go online and you see what courses your friend are takings...
17. Box office takings are up by 40 % on last year.
18. The takings clause mediates between the police power and the eminent domain power.
19. His total takings for the day amounted to one penny for a shave.
20. • Checking the takings late at night is no substitute for a proper Budgetary control system
21. It cost $ 200 million to make, and netted global takings of $ 8 billion even before the video was released.
22. His actual takings would therefore be insufficient even to meet his VAT liability.
23. The pub said that their takings were fifteen to twenty thousand pounds a week.
24. Takings rose 45 percent when the secret aroma was tested on Las Vegas fruit machines.
25. Several albums were also received, with two above average, all making significant contributions to the takings.
26. 10 Takings of ￡170 on the opening night were donated to the funds of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
27. They front the firm and hand over half the takings to the police, otherwise they get visits from gun-toting goons.
28. The manager was a nervous anxious little man, always ready to cry wolf if the shop takings went down a pound or two.
29. When Scream's first weekend takings amounted to only $6 million, it was considered that this release date gamble had failed, but the following week, takings did not drop but increased and continued to increase in the following weeks leading to a total U.S. gross of over $100 million and high critical praise.
30. A brief filed by associations of counties, cities and mayors went further, saying the businesses Challenging the access regulation “propose a revolution in takings jurisprudence whereby
31. Without Aspersing Troy, WI, in particular, the whole field of local land use and takings law is covered with a miasmic odor of cronyism and corruption
32. There is never a straight-up judgment as to whether the state would find it worth while to acquire that conservation easement if they had to pay for it with cash on the Barrelhead.Rather, the New York state court applied the low-level standard of review associated with ordinary regulatory takings cases, and upheld the restrictions in question as "legitimate," (29) without finding this a
33. Boy is a 2010 New Zealand comedy-drama film, written and directed by Taika Waititi.The film stars James Rolleston, Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu, and Waititi.It is produced by Cliff Curtis, Ainsley Gardiner and Emanuel Michael and financed by the New Zealand Film Commission.In New Zealand, the film eclipsed previous records for a first week's box office takings for a local production.