“I'll tell you what I'll do: I'll give it to you for seventy-five hundred, and I'll throw in the cover and helmet for free.”

You're trying to sell your motorcycle. Someone offered to pay you $7,000 for it, but you wanted to get $8,000 for it. Now you're negotiating the price. You say:

I'll tell you what I'll do: I'll give it to you for seventy-five hundred, and I'll throw in the cover and helmet for free.

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“This item ships for free!”

You're looking at a website which sells books. You're reading the listing for a book. It says:

This item ships for free!

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“I'm looking for a studio in the range of about $1200 a month, preferably downtown.”

You're trying to find an apartment in a new city that you're going to move to. You want to use a real estate agent to help you find it. You find the e-mail address of a real estate agent on the Internet and begin writing an e-mail to her. You write:

I'm looking for a studio under $1200 a month, preferably downtown.

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“It was less than $100 for the four of us, which is quite reasonable.”

You went to a restaurant with a group of friends, and now you're writing a review of it on a restaurant-review website. You're reporting how much your meal cost:

It was less than $100 for the four of us, which is quite reasonable.

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“It's a little out of my price range.”

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You're shopping for a new laptop computer at a store. The salesperson suggests getting a computer that's really nice but costs a lot of money. You don't want to spend that much money, so you say:

It's a little out of my price range.

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“It's a good value for the price.”

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You bought a cheap bottle of wine, but you were pleasantly surprised by how good it was. You are writing a review of the wine on a web site. You write:

It's a good value for the price.

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