81.   I used to be a devout chicken-lover, always eager to include it in casual and special meals.

82.   IBM, you may recall, used to be the top seller of personal computers, but no more.

83.   I bookmarked some interesting Web articles, but they were never as easy to find as my stack of newspapers used to be.

84.   I expected Kemp to be the bloated, landlocked forward he now is, rather than the defiant dunker he used to be.

85.   I mean there used to be some value in having sources.

86.   In Phoenix, there used to be this old, geriatric radio station that played my songs, and they went out of business.

87.   In most cases, both types of DNA would be used to be absolutely sure of an identification.

88.   In San Vicente del Caguan, there used to be one or two murders a week.

89.   In science, there used to be two ways to proceed.

90.   In the last five years, REITs have snapped up whole classes of real estate that used to be the private preserves of the titans.

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say 9.58%
figure 6.26%
be 3.78%
use 3.36%
remain 2.65%
present 2.56%
think 1.76%
estimate 1.43%
allege 1.39%
do 1.19%
use + v. >>共 1194
make 6.49%
treat 2.74%
help 2.61%
pay 1.94%
buy 1.44%
be 1.40%
produce 1.34%
build 1.26%
finance 1.25%
create 1.11%
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