No one wants to nationalise greengrocers' vans and the multifarious services which are run properly as a special business.
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What will happen if someone walks into a greengrocer's shop and sticks up the manager and takes all the funds?
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They were bought in a greengrocer's shop at about £30 or £40 a ton.
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A street in my constituency used to be full of family business shops—antique shops, greengrocers, grocers, hardware stores and so on.
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She has raised the case of the woman in the greengrocer's shop.
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The small private greengrocers—the chaps with the corner shops—would have no representation.
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I have discussed this matter not only with shopkeepers and greengrocers but with housewives.
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A practice which is growing in my constituency and which my constituents like is for greengrocers and fruiterers regularly to travel around those estates.
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In those days grocers were grocers; greengrocers were greengrocers: fishmongers were fishmongers, and butchers were butchers.
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I talked to greengrocers about this, and they told me that the situation was beyond their control.
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There are men working now as carpenters who were greengrocers and umbrella makers.
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What is the situation of a chain store of greengrocers who buy and collect produce from farmers and then distribute it themselves to the shops?
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Every word, from the first to the last word, is as rotten as the pears which have lain on a greengrocer's table for three months.
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In the case of dried fruits, distribution to grocers is based on sugar registrations and to greengrocers on their prewar trade.
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All we have had is the opening of a few more greengrocers' shops.
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