adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
full/entire/whole panoply of sth (= the whole range of something )
the total/whole/entire population
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The entire population will be celebrating.
the whole/entire world
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Today the whole world is threatened with pollution.
the whole/full/entire length of sth
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The camera looks down the full length of the street.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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One has to consider that an entire area has been hit and thousands of people are homeless.
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Soon, the firebases could cover almost the entire area of operations.
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The entire area was so altered it took her several minutes to establish where their cottage had been.
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The stench of low tide hung over the entire area , from the river all the way over to the Five Points.
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Thus only counts covering this entire area are likely to give a true indication of winter status.
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As it was, however, units were spread out across the entire area of operations.
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Work up and down the head covering the entire area .
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Before we set up for the night, we made a sweep of the entire area .
body
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Her skin is flawless, her legs endless and her entire body a flab-free zone.
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As a youth, he had learned the entire body of logarithmic tables by heart.
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The entire body of the larva is being dismembered and reassembled.
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The disease appeared to have invaded her entire body .
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Searing, excruciating agony ripped through his hand and up his arm until it seemed to engulf his entire body .
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She was fighting for her life with her entire body , kicking and biting and cursing.
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It comprises the entire body politic, with all its citizens and all their interest groups and social movements.
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In severe infections the entire body will be covered with the parasites, and the fishes will appear almost white.
career
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A version of a Donovan song longer than his entire career ?
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Just three years into his formal career as a choreographer, Alvin was discovering the law that would govern his entire career.
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Recite my entire career history complete with qualifications, pay scale, dates of promotions and dossier of official merit-ratings and reprimands?
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But in an entire career , I never knew a judge who I believed was bribed by raw money.
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No wonder; in her entire career in the Civil Service she has never typed out anything remotely like it.
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Craft sociology can provide a full range of opportunities for writing during an entire career .
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Why would anyone renounce their entire career just to boost their ego?
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Out of nowhere, for the first time in his entire career , he was investigated.
city
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One plant closing or relocation is enough to terminate the employment future of an entire city .
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It makes the festival compact and accessible and gives the entire city a festive air.
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There were twenty-five, covering the entire city in fine detail.
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What is crashing one lousy car compared to scorching two entire cities ?
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It is even conceivable that in the future the bubble policy may be applied to an entire city .
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The effect was to shut off the detours and bring the entire city to a halt.
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The entire city represents to him the place where a dead man he's obsessed with lived.
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Ray and Jimmy could laugh all they wanted, but Weiss had made sure the entire city knew his name.
community
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Ruptured gas lines resulted in fires that gutted entire communities of wooden houses, leaving behind smoldering embers resembling a bomb site.
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This was an entire community of speech-pathology.
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Why, in short, was it necessary to criminalise and terrorise our entire community ?
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Marriage was a ritual celebrated and strongly supported-by the entire community .
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The entire community was also welded together by two other elements.
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The entire community needs to work together to resolve the conflict rather than furthering the polarization that has developed.
country
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If they wanted to, collectively, these men had the power to purchase entire countries .
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It was a model for the entire country .
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Surely we should treat the entire country fairly when introducing a local taxation system.
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Currently there are only about 5, 200 officers patrolling the entire country , which has a population of about 7 million.
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But in reality the entire country was infected.
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Bubbies first became a major brand in the competitive California marketplace and are now eagerly asked for throughout the entire country .
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The only place they can now be found in the entire country is in Upper Teesdale.
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The entire country is in motion before Obon.
day
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In another hour it would be dark and we had wasted an entire day frying in the sun.
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She spent the entire day at the washing, months, years, a lifetime.
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The entire day was her own.
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Had sat by himself at his desk for an entire day .
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It was what the entire day had been about.
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So far that you simply lose an entire day just by crossing the international dateline.
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It took an entire day of buses and hitching to get back to camp and when I did they'd finished supper.
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And they were very protective of me the entire day .
family
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Pol Pot killed her entire family .
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Each Sunday her entire family , with all their servants, attended a small country church near their home.
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Parsytec plans to release an entire family of character recognition systems with prices starting at £15,000.
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Yet she remains for the modern reader perhaps the most intriguing member of the entire family .
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It made sad reading, with five entire families from her street numbered among the dead.
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Not that those considerations need worry Baggio, who has bought 52 stand tickets so that his entire family can watch him today.
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A mystery creature crawls from your living rock and eats your entire family .
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But I wasn't supposed to like her because her love for my father was buggering up our entire family .
group
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Result in the disintegration of the entire group .
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They are generalizations assumed to be true of an entire group of people, regardless of their personal characteristics and circumstances.
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Successful drives often capture the entire group .
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Some of the stories which were first distributed on Monday will be read this time to the entire group .
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A spokesman for Bond Corporation admitted the action could wipe out the entire group .
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But in a self-defeating organization, dysfunctional attitudes become tenets of belief for entire groups of individuals.
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Finally, for a group of homogeneous but not identical items, the expected value of the entire group can be used.
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In the instant case, temporary exclusion of the entire group was rested by the military on the same ground.
history
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Some teachers might even choose to teach the entire history syllabus by working backwards from the present.
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An enormous amount of time is represented by these rocks and unconformities, almost a third of the entire history of Earth.
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He seemed to embody in his person the entire history of the sport: he symbolized the Hawaiian spirit.
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Here he was, refocusing his entire history , as if it had just begun, on the dream of boundless empire.
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Within the collective memory of the North Shore resides an entire history of its natural phenomena.
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And yet, his professors insisted, their entire history proved they were.
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The entire history on which our leading Occidental religions have been founded is an anthology of fictions.
length
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The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber, pushing the grapes against the other side.
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Sedimenting particles in the horizontal-head centrifuge must travel the entire length of the liquid in the tube.
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The freak wave broke top to bottom across the entire length of the Bay.
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She walks back and forth, slowly, the entire length of the bus.
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The flexible rod in its back which runs the entire length of its body carries transverse bands of muscles.
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The proposal covers the entire length of the 30-acre site, from County Hall to Waterloo Bridge.
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Analysis was confined to those crypts whose entire lengths could be completely visualised and which contained a single layer of cells only.
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The day we were going to hammer a post into the ground every three yards for the entire length of the fence.
life
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Harry had the impression this was one man who had never been drunk in his entire life .
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She was never in doubt about one single thing in her entire life .
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I was then told to go away and write down my entire life history on three sheets of blank paper.
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In fact, she had spent her entire life in that impoverished mountain village.
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It could ruin your entire life .
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Each of us contains his entire life .
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His talent for empathetic understanding reaches its peak with Sylvia, who has not read a good book in her entire life .
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For his entire life , it seemed, there had been the terror of discovery.
nation
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Theirs is a tragedy for our entire nation .
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All groups should enthusiastically coordinate their social and economic activities to achieve the good of the entire nation .
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What is good for the food industry can be fatally bad for the health of the entire nation .
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Probably not, although there is no uniform law on this question applicable to the entire nation .
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Complete public humiliation in front of the entire nation is a prospect likely to make a man reckless, desperate even.
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Imagine an entire nation of people missing their mutton.
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It was an entire nation of pragmatists, each individual swaying with the prevailing wind to ensure his or her own future.
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It must involve the total mobilization of the creative energies, imagination and problem-solving capacities of the entire nation .
operation
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From his later writings it is obvious that he was quite fascinated by the entire operation and its execution.
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The entire operation should be completed by March 15, he said.
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Xerox now applies benchmarking across its entire operation as part of a total quality management process.
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Par of me couldn't give a monkeys about the entire operation .
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The entire operation will use remote devices in the boron-rich water that keeps the reactor fuel from overheating.
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Raytheon say they are reviewing the entire operation .
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Since then, they have restructured virtually their entire operation around the needs of their customers.
population
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Lack of control over these had led to health hazards for the entire population , rich and poor.
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Should the United States enact some health plan that covers the entire population ?
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Prior to World War I, infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population .
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Now imagine 5 billion people, the entire population of Earth, each setting off a 24ton explosion at the same time.
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It stretches for nearly fifty miles, and the entire population cultivates copra.
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The slaves were driven to work at such a pace that their entire population had to be replaced about every 20 years.
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Britain was the first country to offer health care to the entire population free at the point of use.
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The current tuberculosis epidemic, which threatens the entire population with antibiotic-resistant strains, is the result of one such foolish cutback.
process
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Repeat the entire process for the second fillet of trout.
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He was very skillful, not only in how legislation was drafted but in the entire process of how it became law.
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Even more alluringly, the entire process could be handed over to private enterprise.
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After scrutinizing the entire process , the staff discovered that the Burbank water system was to blame.
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Directives come from on high, and the entire process is remote and out of reach.
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This is the only time in our entire process of manufacturing where our prod-ucts are touched by human hands.
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The entire process was to take less than a month.
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The entire process takes less than a half second.
project
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The entire Project Eden team - or what was left of it - was milling around: cowed, shocked and submissive.
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The $ 550 million Zeckendorf mentioned was the cost of the entire project , including design, construction, and financial fees.
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The entire project took a number of years to complete.
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The total for all the big chunks is the budget and time needed for the entire project .
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Your advice entails the abandonment of our entire project .
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If we allow this trend to continue, the entire project will get further and further off track.
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A financial plan for the entire project has yet to be worked out.
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The lawyer could look at the entire project , for starters, as simply a prospectively interesting business.
range
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This applies across our entire range .
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But how then can any species be constant in character across its entire range ?
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Ask to see the entire range of photograph albums together with any extras you may require such as pocket books and frames.
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These debates are developed in Chapter 9, which provides an overview of the entire range of inner-city interventions.
region
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Shakespeare Fever continues to grip the entire region , with King Lear at the Unity.
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The same zero-pollution closed-loop principles in a plating factory can be designed into an industrial park or entire region .
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The entire region has fewer phones than does New York City.
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In the same period, the entire region will have lost more than 28, 000 defense jobs.
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The entire region has been cordoned off by civil-defense workers, making Kalapana a brand-new wasteland.
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The potential for heavy rain, along with strong to severe storms, exists tonight across the entire region .
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The entire region is an olfactory overload of pungent fruit.
school
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She was the most beautiful girl in the entire school .
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Beyond the curriculum, the staff at Fratney works to organize the entire school in ways that are consistent with its philosophy.
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Internally the school is organized into separate departments, primary and secondary, which between them cover the entire school age range.
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She seemed as excited as I.. By the next day, the entire school knew because she had told everyone.
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An interesting natural experiment arose when the entire school moved over to the new pathway course in 1987.
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As any teacher can tell you, this is made much easier when the entire school works together to build this ethos.
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In one of the worst affected towns, Anjar, an entire school of 300 children and staff was wiped out.
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In practice, the entire school comes alive with each theme.
system
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Take away coffee, and the entire system collapses.
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In that spirit, chapter 7 addresses why change must involve the entire system , not a few pieces of it.
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His investigation concluded thatthe operators grabbed the entire system for nothing.
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They set the Core Groups to work defining performance targets and measures for the entire system .
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The entire system is goal-directed, although the search through the space of formulae is forward.
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The entire system , according to the Thayer Advisory Handbook, is about communication.
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It teaches you a severe disregard for the entire system .
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When the referees begin calling the plays and deciding who gets in the game, the entire system begins to bog down.
world
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He feels as if he is the only man awake in the entire world .
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These two chapters move through the entire world of images and ideas surrounding the divine body.
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As though, in fact, the entire world were within our compass.
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The entire world was engulfed in a titanic struggle be-tween starkly drawn forces of good and evil.
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She probably knows more about the nineteenth-century industrial novel than anyone else in the entire world .
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It seems as if the entire world is ready to help and support us when our children are babies.
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And the entire World Superbike championship itself must know it's lost one of the sport's all-time greats.
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They believed the Macintosh would be a dividend to the entire world .
year
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That is the size of the average pension for former Mirror Group employees for an entire year .
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But why not reward teams that played the best during the entire year ?
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Prospects for 1993 are very mixed and boss Robert Fitzpatrick does not expect to achieve profitability for the entire year .
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The researchers tracked their gifts for the entire year .
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Students must make do with two exercise books for the entire year .
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Some no doubt will spend the entire year in the minors, but others will get their chance.
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I was the only Arsenal supporter in my entire year at school.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dad spent the entire day in the kitchen.
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Gary was so hungry that he ate an entire chicken for dinner.
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I wasted an entire day waiting at the airport.
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This function of the word processor allows you to correct the entire document before printing.
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We realized that our entire conversation had been recorded.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And that means Boro boss Lennie Lawrence has succeeded in keeping together his entire promotion-winning squad.
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Grijalva said the supervisors were dancing in the dark without specific development plans for the entire property.
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He returns to the deck and commands the entire crew to come before him.
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In this sense athletics offer a metaphor of the entire dilemma of liberation.
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No wonder; in her entire career in the Civil Service she has never typed out anything remotely like it.
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Omegaview/400, giving a single workstation view of the entire network.
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The researchers tracked their gifts for the entire year.
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Unless Guy came up with an acceptable explanation, the entire Court would be gossiping about them.