noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a leisure centre British English (= for sport and other leisure activities )
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There's a leisure centre with a swimming pool, a sauna, and a gymnasium.
a leisure complex (= where you can play sports or relax )
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The new leisure complex includes a swimming pool, a sauna and a gym.
leisure activities
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I don't have much time for leisure activities.
leisure centre
leisure wear
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This is leisure wear for active people.
leisure/recreational facilities (= facilities for activities that you do for pleasure )
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The leisure facilities include a sauna and a gym.
the leisure/entertainment industry
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Computer technology has revolutionized the entertainment industry.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
increased
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Unemployment, or increased leisure time, poses different challenges.
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Enjoying your leisure One of the great luxuries of retirement is the increased leisure time it brings.
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Marketing agencies emphasise this age group's increased interest in leisure pursuits, for example in participative sport and travel.
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We can use our increased leisure time, energy and money, to improve life for ourselves and our families.
local
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One day in November 1985, Mr and Mrs James went into their local leisure centre to use the swimming pool.
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On Wednesdays I train for hockey in the local indoor leisure centre.
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We will encourage more effective use of local sport and leisure facilities through compulsory competitive tendering.
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The local leisure centre was having a sponsored swim, and the funds went towards its upkeep.
new
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A new hotel and leisure centre.
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Aquasplash is Minehead's new indoor leisure pool opening in May 1992 with all weather fun for everyone.
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One session will look at the role of cities as major providers of huge new leisure facilities and sporting venues.
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Macmillan College expects to open its new leisure centre for school and community use in June.
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Architects or builders preparing to build a new leisure centre. 4.
retail
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She will concentrate on securing and managing opportunities in the retail , leisure , office and industrial sectors.
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It will also include retail and leisure units, community facilities and a health care centre.
■ NOUN
activity
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As one would expect, single women have the most leisure activities .
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It also means that a massive 45. 8 percent of our time is available for leisure activities .
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Sports participants have much higher frequencies of participation than do participants in other leisure activities such as the arts.
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Are darts and snooker sports or leisure activities ?
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Each was questioned on driving behaviour, experience, attitude to other drivers, the influence of others and leisure activities .
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Other topics on which findings are ambiguous are the effects on leisure activity , crime, and degree of dependence on parents.
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Frequently our younger engineers had leisure activities involving strenuous physical activity.
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It is an exhibition designed to attract and reflect all aspects of health and leisure activities .
centre
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Castlemore is still working up proposals for the final phase of the scheme, which involves building a leisure centre .
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Local Activities: walks, golf, fishing, leisure centre .
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Up to 20 caravans have parked close to the town's historic cathedral, and opposite the leisure centre and steam train station.
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Local Activities: walks, leisure centre , water sports, golf.
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A new hotel and leisure centre .
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Joanna, 25, walked into the leisure centre where she works at 7am yesterday after vanishing on Tuesday.
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Charity dip: Hundreds of swimmers raised more than £1,000 for Cleveland charities in a superswim at Eston leisure centre .
centres
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A Northallerton Town football player has been signed up to improve fitness facilities at Hambleton leisure centres .
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When they're still young, girls hang around bus stations, leisure centres , bus shelters or each other's doorsteps.
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The warning follows tests of pools at schools, hotels, holiday camps and leisure centres in 196 local authorities.
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This has stimulated hotel interest in the development of leisure centres .
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This offers concessional rates for leisure centres and adult educational courses to retired people and those receiving supplementary and unemployment benefit.
class
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Veblen's particular interest in the leisure class determined the direction of his argument.
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It favored the leisure class to an undemocratic degree.
company
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Likewise, those leisure companies with operations outside the South East may experience less of a slow down.
complex
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For clubs in decent pitches though, offices or leisure complexes on part of their land can also provide cash.
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Castlemore is developing the 21 ha site for a Tesco superstore, retail outlet and a leisure complex .
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Nowadays, prisons are like leisure complexes , with snooker tables and televisions.
development
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But wherever they are built, multiplexes are almost always parts of larger leisure developments .
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Mineral exploration and leisure development were to be the cover story and they would do at a casual glance.
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Threats to parks come first of all from road building and secondly from increasing leisure development , notably golf courses.
facility
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The organisation wants to turn the disused school into a community centre offering religious, educational and leisure facilities .
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Conclusions Hotel leisure facilities have been shown to be a worthwhile investment in that they can: 1.
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The creative use of existing clubs and leisure facilities could go much of the way to addressing this concern.
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The club is a discount scheme to be operated in all the district council's leisure facilities from April.
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One session will look at the role of cities as major providers of huge new leisure facilities and sporting venues.
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Equipment and supervisory staff were expensive, he said, and leisure facilities were often the fist victims of cost-saving cutbacks.
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The developers now need social facilities and infrastructure, such as schools, open space and leisure facilities to support their own schemes.
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A wide variety of sports and leisure facilities is available for your entertainment.
group
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An electronics specialist called Colin Crook set up Zynar three years ago as a subsidiary of the Rank leisure group .
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Rank Organisation, the leisure group , advanced 8p to 782p after the success of its scrip dividend take-up.
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Allied Restaurants, which aims to develop as a broadly-based leisure group , could be tempted to sell its 20 Wimpy restaurants.
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He built up his property and leisure group to pre-tax profits estimated at just under £100 million in 1990.
industry
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Sport is not the largest sector of the leisure industry , but it is among the fastest growing.
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In true capitalist form, an entire nude leisure industry has responded.
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The leisure industry was an urban phenomenon at a time when most of the population did not live in towns.
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The factories have gone, the leisure industry is all.
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Ten years after the crash that almost cost him both legs, he's taking the leisure industry by storm.
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The fact that such technology has already had a major impact upon the leisure industry should not fill us with wild joy.
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The leisure industry , however, is one of the world's largest and most rapidly expanding businesses.
opportunity
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Increased leisure opportunities have meant that people can take their leisure during the week and leave Sunday as a day of rest.
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Offering after-school play and leisure opportunities for children with nowhere to go.
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It also means providing a range of creative leisure opportunities for young people.
park
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Alton Towers, 10 miles away, is the largest leisure park in the country and combines a mini-Disneyland with beautiful gardens.
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Alton Towers, the large leisure park with gardens, is only 2 miles away.
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In a different vein, a half-hour drive will take you to the gardens and leisure park at Alton Towers.
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Class C are a group of entrepreneurs who want to build a leisure park in the area.
pursuit
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According to the other, housework provides the opportunity for endless creative and leisure pursuits .
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The choice of organised leisure pursuits is little short of staggering.
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You may have a family but that does not mean you have to neglect your own sport and leisure pursuit .
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A whole range of leisure pursuits , hobbies, social encounters, information sources, are automatically excluded.
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What time there was free was devoted overwhelmingly to home and family life, including such home-based leisure pursuits as watching television.
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Similarly, old people are seen in the same light, which explains their lack of employment or active leisure pursuits .
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Marketing agencies emphasise this age group's increased interest in leisure pursuits , for example in participative sport and travel.
sector
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The leisure sector has experienced phenomenal growth over the last few years.
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Despite this short-term hiccup, it is the Henley Centre's view that prospects for the leisure sector will remain buoyant overall.
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Whereas industrial demand fell below expectations, demand in the tourism and leisure sectors has exceeded them.
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Designed for the brewing and leisure sector .
service
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The route will be presented to the leisure services sub-committee tomorrow with a recommendation for approval.
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Liverpool City Council's leisure services department believe more than 30,000 people turned out for a thrilling 20-minute extravaganza.
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Councillor Eric Smith, chairman of the leisure services committee, said a report on the incident was being compiled.
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School library services may well be funded and managed through the recreation and leisure services department.
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Spare time: An introduction to leisure course, run by Middlesbrough council leisure services , starts on February 27.
suit
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Ludicrously over-equipped tourists might recognise themselves from this checklist: Track or leisure suit .
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Lawyer Leonard Weinglass turned up in a tan leisure suit .
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They were fat, fleshy, middle-aged men: one was in a windbreaker, one was in a leisure suit .
time
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Research shows that people consistently overestimate the time they spend working and underestimate their leisure time.
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Enjoying your leisure One of the great luxuries of retirement is the increased leisure time it brings.
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However, your achievements are much more important than whether you read, swim, or study yoga in your leisure time .
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We can use our increased leisure time , energy and money, to improve life for ourselves and our families.
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How do you use your leisure time ?
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Increased leisure time is a challenge for older people and most will welcome the challenge.
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Assuming that this happened in your area, how would you use your increased leisure time ?
wear
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Details of a deal with leisure wear company Cotton Traders will be announced shortly.
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In the following series the reliance on women in fishnet leisure wear became a bit obvious.
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Sally is into high street leisure wear and casual daytime things rather than glitzy disco gear.
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The typical leisure wear at the ryokan is a blue and white cotton robe known as a yukata provided by the management.
■ VERB
build
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Castlemore is still working up proposals for the final phase of the scheme, which involves building a leisure centre.
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The client is also understood to be working up proposals for the final phase of the project to build a leisure centre.
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Architects or builders preparing to build a new leisure centre. 4.
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Class C are a group of entrepreneurs who want to build a leisure park in the area.
enjoy
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Our education system gives us the skills to appreciate and enjoy culture and leisure .
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And we work less so that we have the time to enjoy our leisure .
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August action A gentle schedule to keep the garden ticking over while you enjoy some well-earned leisure .
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Workers standing by were not always enjoying a leisure preference; they were sometimes enduring an enforced and hungry idleness.
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Some prefer part-time work, so that there is extra income and interest, but time to enjoy leisure , too.
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These scenes are a record of the way people living in the countryside enjoyed themselves in their leisure time in 1946.
increase
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There is evidence that, in Britain, working time is increasing and leisure time declining.
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Assuming that this happened in your area, how would you use your increased leisure time?
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Furthermore, the same affluence encourages an increased array of leisure time activity choices.
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Threats to parks come first of all from road building and secondly from increasing leisure development, notably golf courses.
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Another assumption made by Marx throughout his work is that higher technology increases the total leisure time available.
provide
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Parks, moreover, can provide significant leisure facilities - and revenue - in their own right.
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It provides leisure time, one of the prime goals for which most men work long hours and years.
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It is well provided with leisure facilities for sports and arts.
spend
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Eirias Park Spend your leisure time in Eirias Park - the park by the sea.
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Virtually everywhere, the fundamentals are sound: the number of older people is growing and they are spending more on leisure .
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Day 15 Vancouver-London Spend the morning at leisure in Vancouver until your evening departure for London.
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Many people spend this on the leisure industries of the towns, such as the races and football.
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The rest of the day is spent at leisure .
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It's already spent its £1 million leisure budget.
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He decides to spend his leisure time collecting data on the geographical distribution of flamingos and retired people.
work
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I think we will balance work and leisure in a totally different way.
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Research shows that people consistently overestimate the time they spend working and underestimate their leisure time.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lady of leisure
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So you're a lady of leisure now that the kids are at school?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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leisure activities
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A wide range of leisure activities such as swimming, fishing, and sailing are also available.
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The average person who travels for business or leisure probably has an e-mail account.
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The reduction in average working hours has led to an increase in leisure time.
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Your standard of living depends on your income and also on the amount of leisure you have.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Aquasplash is Minehead's new indoor leisure pool opening in May 1992 with all weather fun for everyone.
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For clubs in decent pitches though, offices or leisure complexes on part of their land can also provide cash.
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Mountaineering, golfing, and fishing were among his leisure pursuits; he was a member of the Yorkshire Anglers' Club.
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Other topics on which findings are ambiguous are the effects on leisure activity, crime, and degree of dependence on parents.
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She will concentrate on securing and managing opportunities in the retail, leisure , office and industrial sectors.
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The reason for their very big standard errors become clearer from the specification of the leisure effects.