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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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early
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But by researching we are able to uncover a few of our early inhabitants .
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Archaeologists divide the early inhabitants into elephant hunters and bison hunters.
indigenous
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Survival International has launched a campaign against the programme and its likely effects on the indigenous inhabitants of the forest.
local
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They worked diligently and enthusiastically but tended to be aloof from the local inhabitants .
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None of the local inhabitants I spoke to could recall any particular Marian devotion.
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Styles of dress which are perfectly acceptable at home may be offensive to local inhabitants or may be banned altogether.
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Expatriates may not adapt to the culture and so live in their own world entirely separate from that of the local inhabitants .
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Vicki tells her that when the ship landed, the crew were invited to a meeting by the local inhabitants .
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Even religion and politics were subjects he covered in his preamble in relation to local inhabitants such as George Fox.
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Occasionally, housing policies in local areas have attempted to restrict the sale of houses to local inhabitants .
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The loss of the holy day holidays might have annoyed the local inhabitants more than it did the off-comers.
native
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Taking advantage of its remoteness from the administrative centre of the Imperium they had enslaved the native inhabitants .
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Officially you are all going to be victims of a surprise attack on the rescue party by the native inhabitants .
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Any benefit to the native inhabitants of the colony was incidental.
old
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Within the living memory of the older inhabitants of Dornie, there have been radical changes affecting both these waterways.
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The oldest inhabitants were black, though they were not one people but quite a variety.
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In time they made new villages, cleared more land for crops and traded with the older inhabitants .
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At eighty-three, Miss Kerr is one of the oldest inhabitants in Lochranza.
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For several years, Grandad was Royston's oldest inhabitant .
other
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The whole house was quiet and she told herself that she must be careful not to awaken the two other sleeping inhabitants .
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Slight knowledge of other inhabitants comes from a small collection of material.
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Jane looked around for some other inhabitants .
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Meanwhile the eggs hatched, became free-swimming and food for the other tank inhabitants .
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This, in addition to the continuing oxygen consumption of the fish, bacteria and other pond inhabitants can quickly cause oxygen depletion.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
native New Yorker/population/inhabitants etc
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Although he was a native New Yorker, like many denizens of that city he had a romantic view of country life.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Copenhagen has about 1.4 million inhabitants.
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Nearly 36% of the inhabitants of Saudi Arabia are resident foreigners.
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This is a poor rural area, with only one doctor per 10,000 inhabitants.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Edward captured the town and massacred its inhabitants.
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In some of these, for instance California and Wyoming, the material was apparently ignored by the aboriginal inhabitants.
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In the afternoon I attend to the needs of the inhabitants of the Smoking Room and the gallery.
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Its inhabitants quiver with curiosity whenever the desert train discharges a consignment of tourists.
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Originally this had four towers and a wooden palisade to protect the inhabitants.
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Sterile-looking, de-natured domiciles promise safety for their inhabitants, protection from the hazards of urban existence.
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The latter move prompted the government to retaliate by establishing a blockade around the island and withdrawing all services from the inhabitants.
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Would the shed's inhabitant necessarily guess that Mungo had been the uninvited visitor?