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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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female
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But where are their female counterparts ?
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Their female counterparts were earning 7. 7 percent less in 1995 than in 1989-13 percent less after correcting for inflation.
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Generally speaking, a widower or divorced man was three times as likely to remarry as his female counterpart throughout the period.
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Along with his female counterpart , Mamn Brigitte, Ghede will guard the local cemetery.
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A more likely scenario is that male rape victims would be afforded the same shoddy treatment as their female counterparts .
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Their female counterparts are to be found in the studios of the Esther and Kilroy shows.
foreign
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human
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The function of its human counterpart is likely to be very similar.
male
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Elizabeth Jerichau-Baumann's undated painting Odalisque subscribes to the stereotypes of the female nude propagated by her male counterparts .
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Fifty-eight percent say they are no worse than their male counterparts .
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Besides being paid less per hour the majority of women employees in both sectors work fewer hours than their male counterparts .
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Women who undergo cosmetic surgery still far outnumber their male counterparts .
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Furthermore, they found that female clerical workers were much less likely to achieve promotion than their male counterparts .
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Female managers generally have less difficulty and embarrassment with this topic than do their male counterparts .
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But far be it for us to shed crocodile tears over the bruised egos of our male counterparts .
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And life for their male counterparts may be no less bleak.
modern
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These extinct fishes were unlike their modern counterparts in possessing a dermal skeleton of minute scales and/or bony plates.
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Typically, old policies provided broader cover than their modern counterparts .
southern
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Even the huge ring roads around Lille, Tourcoing, Roubaix and Courtrai seem more basic than their southern counterparts .
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Northern church leaders used equally strong language about their southern counterparts .
soviet
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That society was then regarded in London and Moscow as the association's proper Soviet counterpart .
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Unlike their Soviet counterparts , few western texts indulged in lengthy discussion of a work's subject matter.
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Some lived, comparatively speaking, as well or better than their Soviet counterparts .
western
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Its western counterpart apparently remained open, being used at one stage for spelt cultivation.
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But, rather more than their Western counterparts , they had a taste and a love for literature.
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Like their western counterparts , they often did dwell upon the dark side of life.
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They have preferred to regard them as basically sharing the mentality of their Western counterparts .
white
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For the most part, black sportsmen accept that they have advantages, in an unspecified way, over their white counterparts .
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Only 0. 5 percent of their white counterparts were similarly under control of the criminal justice system, it said.
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Just under 30 percent of black trainees obtain work as opposed to just over 45 percent of their white counterparts .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bars in Madrid offer more, and better, food than their American counterparts.
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Belgian government officials are discussing the matter with their counterparts in France.
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Eighteenth-century urban dwellers lived in much worse conditions than their modern counterparts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For the most part, black sportsmen accept that they have advantages, in an unspecified way, over their white counterparts.
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In general, the provincial circuit is a far tougher cookie than its metropolitan counterpart .
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In this respect orthodox medicine may have placed itself at some disadvantage to its complementary counterparts.
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In turn, their active counterparts work with renewed energy and pray for them.
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Wilzcek agreed that the newer, West Coast institutions probably put more emphasis on science than their more traditional East Coast counterparts.