| held company | 22.45 | Beatrice is a closely held company. | ||
| held belief | 5.13 | This is a widely held belief. | ||
| held talk | 4.08 | The two held talks on ways to improve oil prices, the agency said. | ||
| held view | 3.75 | Hers is not a widely held view. | ||
| held firm | 2.50 | Cosell held firm and emerged as an even more celebrated figure. | ||
| held hostage | 2.17 | German held hostage by Moldovan gang freed. | ||
| held secret | 1.38 | His decision to retire was a closely held secret. | ||
| held debt | 1.05 | It is the publicly held debt that is targeted for extinction. | ||
| held investment | 0.99 | Lehman is a privately held investment group based in Washington. | ||
| held territory | 0.92 | He said the two rockets came from Bosnian-Serb held territory within the pocket. | ||
| held business | 0.86 | Closely held businesses noticed. | ||
| held maker | 0.86 | Delco Remy is a closely held maker of starters, alternators and other auto and truck parts. | ||
| held serve | 0.86 | He double-faulted three times in one game but held serve. | ||
| held corporation | 0.79 | Amerijet is a privately held corporation. | ||
| held opinion | 0.79 | A widely held opinion. | ||
| held area | 0.72 | However, in Serb held areas where many Moslems were expelled, returns are being stiffly resisted by the authorities. | ||
| held notion | 0.72 | He also turns some commonly held notions on their heads. | ||
| held assumption | 0.66 | All this runs counter to a commonly held assumption of the biochemical cause of obesity. | ||
| held perception | 0.66 | Local administrators even joke about the widely held perception of their city. | ||
| held stock | 0.66 | Both are among the most widely held Internet stocks. |