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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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early
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To a town dweller the silence is eerie - so this is how the wilderness felt to the early explorers and settlers.
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Actually, they were one of the most sensible things that the earlier white explorers brought with them.
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Biology played an important role in southern exploration, for many of the early explorers were sealers and whalers.
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Had early explorers come from the southern hemisphere, would our maps appear upside down?
great
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Most travellers suffered appalling hardship and danger, none more so than the great Victorian explorers .
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It was rumored that Henry Hudson, the great explorer , and his crew played ninepins in the mountains every twenty years.
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Meanwhile fellow travellers can only admire the hardiness of the last great explorer , now 83.
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Then he wondered if great explorers ever felt as he did - excited, yes, but more than a little frightened too!
intrepid
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The wonders of Ease Gill are available only to a privileged few intrepid explorers .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But motorists, explorers and connoisseurs of beauty will follow the usual route departing along the A.83s.
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Certainly her fellow explorers ganged up on Dame Freya's side.
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For enthusiastic cave explorers, it is a second home.
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He anticipated the motives of explorers, conquerors, and settlers for a couple of centuries to come.
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It would mean a far more costly and complex voyage by human explorers, currently envisioned no sooner than 2018.
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The collection is being marketed as clothing for ice climbers, glacier explorers and back-country skiers.
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The first concentrated on the discoveries of the explorers, beginning with Columbus and continuing on through Raleigh.