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By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – Bank of England policymaker Catherine Mann said she voted for a half percentage point rise in interest rates this month because she saw little sign that public’s price expectations were easing, which risked causing inflation to stay too high. Mann was one of four Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) members to vote to raise interest rates to 0.75% from 0.25% this month, rather than the increase to 0.5% backed by the majority of the committee. “To me, the data was still showing very robust expectations and I thought it was important to dampen those expectations u…