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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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area
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According to Culver, water mains in Baltimore and in most older, large metro areas are loaded with metal filings.
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Background: Workers willing to brave long commutes to New York for less-expensive housing are keeping the Philadelphia metro area suburbs alive.
station
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The garden next door to the metro station is of the early 1970s by Otokar Kuca.
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And last year, a suspicious-looking briefcase at a metro station was taken care of by Sheila.
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Fanaty throw bottles on to the pitch, fight at metro stations and stab one another.
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There is an escalator of only five steps at a Tokyo metro station which is a good example of a Tomason.
system
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One of the guests asked the others to bet on how many metro systems there were in the world.
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The last big metro system in Britain was in Tyne and Wear.
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The London Underground is the second largest metro system in the world.
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He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years.
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Drawing on many of these elements, Alstom is also offering a complete automated metro system marketed as Axionis.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to Culver, water mains in Baltimore and in most older, large metro areas are loaded with metal filings.
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By the next day the railways were paralysed and Paris bus stations, metro lines and post offices had been occupied.
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From being a member of the foreign / national staff, I returned to metro as one of several assistant metro editors.
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Here in London and the South-east, we already have metro and commuter railways which carry over 1,300 million passengers a year.
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It will be at the busy 1.75-metre interchange between the Paris metro and the railway at Les Invalides.
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The metro editor sent me to cover a soccer team pep rally at Columbia University.
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They moved into metro Phoenix where lantana and mulberry trees kept them fat and happy.