In the past, borrowers had to pay through the nose at the outset but they benefited from the rapid erosion of mortgage debt through high inflation.

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Apple extracted a high price from Sprint but S management felt they had to pay through the nose to have the phone just to be able to stay in the game.

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Years later, what you thought was a daub by a chimp with a paintbrush turns out to be an old master - and you have to pay through the nose for it!

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With longer service intervals and guarantees of three years or more, there has anyway become less of a need for motorists to expect to find a franchised dealer just along the road to take care of any problems and to pay through the nose for the privilege.

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I've been wanting to read Don DeLillo's Underworld all year - but not enough to tempt me into trudging around town to find it and then pay through the nose.

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We pay through the nose to avoid delays and congestion.

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"Without this facility, we would not only be faced with the depressing prospect of piling millions of tonnes of waste into the ground over the coming years, but we would also pay through the nose to do it, " said Cllr Matheson.

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As a result, senior citizens who pay through the nose for the pills they swallow have traveled to Canada to get cheaper drugs.

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