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- noun Plural form of
housebreaking .
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Examples
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Fakie's report said 401 firearms were robbed from members in townships, and 94 in housebreakings - in six cases of which the guns were not properly locked away.
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From 1998 to 2001 the annual recorded number of aggravated robberies had increased from 88,319 to 119,446, housebreakings from
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A broadcast said residents of the border town of Beitbridge reported an upsurge of housebreakings.
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New Zealand has more housebreakings, car thefts, likewise some Scandinavian countries.
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New Zealand has more housebreakings, car thefts, likewise some Scandinavian countries.
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Armed robberies per 100,000 of the population jumped from 44,5 to 56 and housebreakings from 159,2 to 170,6, according to the latest crime figures released in Pretoria.
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Magistrate Lukas Scheepers told Tiki Lamle, 20, a first offender, that robberies, housebreakings, muggings and thefts from vehicles had escalated in the city to the extent that two special courts set up to punish offenders battled heavy rolls each day.
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Residential housebreakings in this period jumped from a rate of
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Serious assault rose from 439,1 to 464,2 since last year, and residential housebreakings from 517,2 to 547,6.
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Between 1993 and 1997 some 95 percent of all vehicle thefts were reported to the police, but only 59 percent of housebreakings, and 40 percent of bicycle thefts.
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