adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
deposit
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Horne then independently investigated glacial deposits .
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At the base there is a locally derived ground moraine that may be a remnant glacial deposit of much greater antiquity.
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Base-of-overburden samples may be taken where glacial deposits are widespread or there is reason to suspect transport of elements of interest.
pace
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Some unnecessarily tricky camera work early on is taxing, as is the film's glacial pace .
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Indeed, the entire rescue operation seems to have proceeded at a glacial pace .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Attempts to light a fire in the glacial dining-room had to be abandoned when it smoked out the house.
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But we are no longer limited by the glacial rate of natural genetic innovation.
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Davis, himself, paved the way for this when he admitted the existence of arid and glacial cycles of erosion.
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I am thinking geologic time, or at the very briefest, glacial .
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In spite of the glacial air conditioning and his recent bath, his face was covered with sweat.
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It was decided to flood the glacial valley of Vyrnwy at the south-western end of the Berwyn Mountains.
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Some unnecessarily tricky camera work early on is taxing, as is the film's glacial pace.