1.   Compared with conventional financing, a lease generally will have a lower monthly payment.

2.   Most residential leases do not have cancellation clauses, lawyers said.

3.   LaPierre added that a lease had yet to be signed.

4.   The offices are being sublet from the Dutch bank ING, whose lease has two years remaining.

5.   The lease on Hong Kong has just over a year to run and the British garrison here is involved in a little military-style downsizing.