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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Most of the spadework in the research was done by grad students.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As things are, he has not only to invent his method, but also do most of the spadework for himself.
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By 1981 much of the intellectual spadework for the Reagan presidency had been done.
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Meanwhile the soldiers were getting some help with the spadework .
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She helped with the spadework in the early days of the Wisley garden, I had learned.
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The intellectual spadework for a compromise on Jerusalem has been done; the ingredient the process has lacked is not time.
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They helped dig the badgers' new home ... there were also a few young recruits on hand to help with the spadework .
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Two scholars have done some particularly valuable linguistic spadework .
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With Husqvarna, that pleasure comes without the spadework .