However, the figure was boosted by big one-off items, including the purchase and sale of television networks.

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There was also a variety of one-off items, including a set of stocks which celebrities including Alice Cooper, Jonathan Ross, One Direction and Michael Douglas have posed in.

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But if Discover catches on, it could transform eBay's massive collection of one-off, unusual items into an advantage against more mainstream competitors like Amazon, he says.

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By the third day, though, Osofsky-McGonigle, who was also starting to move her right arm and leg, could name one or two simple items -- and her recovery took off from there.

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The electricity tariff cut lowered the index by 0.45%, so if one takes away the one-off effect of this cut, and maintaining all other items the same, the price index would have reached 1.13% higher month over month, or a whopping 14.44% annualized.

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Pat Frost, Head of the Textiles Department at Christie's described the sale as a "one-off opportunity", adding she was not aware of any clothing items of Margaret Thatcher's being sold at a public auction before.

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But the figure was boosted by the one-off sale of its stake in its Japanese refining and chemicals business earlier this year and tax-related items, said the Texas-based group.

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