noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a spring/summer/autumn/winter flower
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The mountainsides were blanketed with spring flowers.
autumn leaves ( also fall leaves American English ) (= leaves that have changed colour or fallen in autumn )
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I love the colours of the autumn leaves.
autumn mist(s)
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The field looked magical in the autumn mist.
the spring/summer/autumn term
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Mrs Collins will be leaving us at the end of the summer term.
the spring/summer/autumn/winter sunshine
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She was sitting in the garden, enjoying the spring sunshine.
the summer/autumn/winter/spring months
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It's very cold here during the winter months.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
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These colours work particularly well in late summer and early autumn , when sunshine becomes more golden and mellow.
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It was early autumn , and downtown the sun was bright in the unlit lobby.
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For collectors and aviation enthusiasts the early autumn of 1992 produced no less than four major auctions with an accent on matters aeronautical.
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In the early autumn of the first year of the war, he had closed the office for several days.
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A conference to launch the notes and the training material is expected in the early autumn .
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Which means he should be showing up sometime in early autumn .
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Daffodils like to be planted as early in the autumn as possible so get those in now.
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Firmer proposals should be available by early autumn this year, and more information will be sent to centres at that time.
late
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If layered in August, the new plant should be ready to move by late autumn or the following spring.
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The prospect of sailing into the late autumn was itself the major worry.
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It was originally thought the contract could be given last year with work starting in late autumn .
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Sailing a bamboo raft through the late autumn and early winter storms was definitely perilous.
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Waste of land is thus avoided, and there is a surplus of top-quality produce for sale in late autumn and winter.
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Traditionally, the layering process ends in late autumn with the addition of fresh pineapple chunks.
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One late autumn afternoon Snowy failed to turn up for his meal, so his master went out to look for him.
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Some through passage perhaps occurs in late autumn and is clearly discernable in late March and April.
previous
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Comment on the dollar had been sombre for much of the year in the train of developments the previous autumn .
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The previous autumn , the muggy monsoon heat had begun to diminish on the very day following the festival of Dusshera.
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After his good showing the previous autumn Nathan was coming too.
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Examine all those planted the previous autumn and winter to see that the soil has not been loosened by frost.
■ NOUN
day
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I am meeting Enya and the Ryans somewhere near her carefully guarded Killiney residence on a silvery wet and foggy autumn day .
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The sky had taken on the faint green cast of an autumn day .
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They went to lunch at Fiesole on a perfect autumn day .
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I flew into Lindbergh on a gorgeous autumn day .
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It is a sunny autumn day .
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It was a gray, cool autumn day and all the bees were home, now agitated by the surgery.
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On mild autumn days , pond fish will be feeding enthusiastically, building up their fat reserves.
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On this gloomy autumn day , there were gray and yellowish skies lowering over the rooftops of Warsaw.
evening
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He took encore after encore until the thinning crowd finally disappeared into the dark autumn evening .
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I go to the movies by myself one autumn evening .
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It is 7.30 on a mild, wet autumn evening in Paris, two weeks before the fashion shows.
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On a muddy autumn evening , we had sworn to love each other for ever.
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One autumn evening in 1944, twenty new prisoners arrived in the compound unexpectedly.
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It was a fine autumn evening in 1922.
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The thought of a cold classroom on an autumn evening is the last thing she probably wants!
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Autumn By autumn evenings Orion has set soon after darkness, but Sirius and Canopus are still high.
leave
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In the gutter and against railings caches of autumn leaves were turning black with rot, a reminder of the distant summer.
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Under his feet, fallen apples were mixed in with the first autumn leaves .
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It could be cherry blossom petals or autumn leaves or slush and snow.
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I went into the field and gathered autumn leaves and flowers and put them in jam jars around the cottage.
statement
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The autumn statement shows that spending on science and technology in 1992-93 will be almost £6 billion.
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Will he further confirm that the 11 percent. increase in the autumn statement is bound to be helpful?
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The Chief Secretary has spoken for 22 minutes but has not mentioned the autumn statement .
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In his autumn statement on 6 November, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced his public expenditure plans.
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What is the Opposition's alternative to the autumn statement ?
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The Chancellor did his best in the autumn statement .
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The Government produced in the autumn statement a graph of consumer confidence.
term
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He hadn't wondered where her clothes were when he'd returned to Primrose Cottage at the end of that autumn term .
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Two-thirds of five to seven-year-olds and half of eight to 11-year-olds are looking forward to the autumn term .
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Had they used a police car, it would have taken them longer, for this was the autumn term .
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The beginning of the autumn term was, apart from exams, her busiest time of year.
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It was decided to postpone the survey until the autumn term .
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He went back to Cuddesdon for the autumn term , but the mental condition was very adverse.
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They were a fellow short, and the start of the autumn term is a terrible time to get a replacement.
■ VERB
begin
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A slow process of rapprochement therefore began in the autumn of 1943.
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Autumn began , autumn passed, and winter began, 1963 into 1964.
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Now the administration is proclaiming it as the solution to the dramatic slowdown in the economy that began last autumn .
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But I know that the money will not last if you do not begin your studies this autumn .
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It was the beginning of the summer, three months before college began in the autumn .
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The worst time began in the autumn of 1810, which year had up to then been one of peak earnings.
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The research began in the autumn of 1986.
publish
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A strategic overview on the issue would be published in an autumn white paper.
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The novel will be published next autumn .
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The Beatles Anthology will be published this autumn .
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A new edition of her book, Good Children, is being published this autumn .
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Antoine Bloye was published in the autumn of 1933.
start
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Valerie was asked to give regular classes and hopes to be able to start these in the autumn .
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This would earn Moscow substantial transit fees once the first oil starts flowing next autumn .
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If all goes well, you may be able to go back to school when the new year starts in the autumn .
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It was originally thought the contract could be given last year with work starting in late autumn .
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Overhead wiring will get under way early this year, with test running to start in the autumn .
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Bohunt volunteered for the first year, which started last autumn .
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But the Saturday class for young musicians will start this autumn in temporary premises.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Autumn began, autumn passed, and winter began, 1963 into 1964.
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And in the autumn a Race Night is planned as well as a Dinner Dance.
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In lambs, patent infections first occur in early summer, but the heaviest infections are usually seen in autumn .
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It was not until autumn that Jennifer found herself in the city again.
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No recent change in status is apparent, except that some decline in autumn passage may have occurred.
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Only during the time of the spring and autumn equinoxes do our aquariums have a tropical day.
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Or go for lowlights in a rich autumn glow.
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Shortly after Norah's departure, Louise was fitted for her autumn suits.