adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good/successful season
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The club has had another successful season.
a successful businessman
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a highly successful businessman
a successful career
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David had had a successful career in banking.
a successful enterprise
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She is the owner of an extremely successful enterprise.
a successful marriage
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The key to a successful marriage is friendship.
a successful outcome
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Hopes for a successful outcome to the war were fading.
a successful partnership
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We are looking forward to a successful partnership.
a successful/effective strategy
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The most successful strategy is often the simplest one.
a successful/profitable/thriving business
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Within a few years she had established a thriving business in London.
a successful/unsuccessful coup
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The armed forces are too weak to mount a successful coup.
an effective/successful campaign
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The Conservatives failed to mount an effective campaign.
an unsuccessful/a successful attempt
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an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the government
economically successful
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an economically successful area
highly successful/effective/efficient
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a highly successful politician
second largest/most successful etc
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Africa’s second highest mountain
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Their efforts were successful, and they won the contract.
successful
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The surgery was successful and he’s recovering well.
successful
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Was the project successful?
successful
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We do not yet have enough evidence for a successful prosecution.
successful/unsuccessful applicant (= someone who is accepted or not accepted for a job etc )
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Successful applicants will be expected to travel extensively.
the successful candidate (= the one who gets the job or position )
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The successful candidate will be innovative and self-motivated.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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If it proves as successful as its developer, Ramtron, claims, it could replace all other types of data storage.
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Still, doubts linger that the program will be as successful as its backers claim.
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The next event was just as successful , although it sailed closer to the wind.
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Any organization will be only as successful as those at the bottom are willing to make it.
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He was ambitious to be recognized as a physiologist as successful as his father.
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The program was as successful as it was popular.
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Elsewhere, however, management strategies have not been as successful .
highly
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If that was its method of discouraging tourists in their search for quaint old London pubs, it was highly successful .
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Specialists who are very good in their profession will find increased opportunities to create or join highly successful professional service firms.
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Experience here has shown it to be highly successful .
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He was a highly successful businessman, a leader in a local evangelical church.
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In spite of this generous beginning the financial management of Mary's reign was highly successful .
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Telemarketing in the world of opera is not highly successful .
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Would you also like to be in control of your emotions and on the path to a highly successful future?
how
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The follow-up survey planned for Spring 1985 will test just how successful they have been in job search.
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These projects are only now coming on line and how successful they will be has yet to be determined.
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Instead, it reflected how successful they had been in aggressively promoting their rather indifferent work.
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Finally, I asked him how successful his program was.
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When our album Cuts Both Ways was released in 1989, I couldn't believe how successful it was.
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They worked hard at Muirfield to make the bunkers look natural, and after visiting Auchnafree I understood how successful they were.
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Only a Review/Recall Stage at the end will determine how successful you have been in your reading.
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The story that yearns to be told is how successful we have been.
less
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They had hosted their own shoot at Dolphinton where they had been less successful .
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Where the transitions were more subtle, as in changing cultural conceptions among the literati, the Jesuits were less successful .
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By contrast, the Protestant attack on traditional religious festivals was far less successful .
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During the course of my research, I discovered that there were less successful instances, but happily these were few.
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It may live longer, but it will be less successful at reproducing and may fail to pass on its genes.
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He landed without incident, but his pachyderm pal proved less successful .
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Unfortunately, with a marginally less successful Cup than League record, Athletico have never been in that position.
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The council has been far less successful .
more
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Today it remains to be seen whether Museveni's essentially centralist approach will be more successful than its predecessors.
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The circle seems unbroken, and now, in this new millennium, Showcase promises to be even more successful .
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Amperometric transducers have generally been more successful than their potentiometric counterparts, allowing detection of many organic solutes.
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In every way, the San Diego convention has been more successful for Republicans than the Houston bash-fest.
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Progress in the Cup the next year was more successful , if less spectacular.
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There have been repeated allegations that the current interceptor tests have been rigged to appear more successful than they have actually been.
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The truth commissions have sometimes proved more successful , in part because the present governments are not responsible for past abuses.
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The whole predator's body, including all its genes, is more successful because it runs faster.
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A gradual but firm approach to weaning is the most successful .
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Groups seem to be most successful when undertaking tangible projects, as Black Mountain was when building its second campus.
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It was the most successful moment of his life.
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The two most successful ones were hosted by the Arizona schools.
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Grey and silver are definitely the most successful colours when pressing.
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Well, it was our most successful item.
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They were the most successful comedy films of all time.
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This is the third year of the program and the most successful by far.
particularly
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However, attempts to estimate percentage crystallinity in a sample using n.m.r. have not been particularly successful .
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This is a task at which he has not been particularly successful , so far.
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He had not been a particularly successful student.
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Friedrich Paneth, a Viennese chemist and keen amateur photographer, was particularly successful with the process.
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Though the orchestra still lacks a substantial endowment, a new fund-raising strategy has proved particularly successful .
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This part of the enterprise was particularly successful and we are grateful to Len for supplying the goods and our Hon.
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The latter is particularly successful on barracuda.
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On its own, it would not be so successful .
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It was Burrows who ensured that the television coverage of a tournament played in five countries was so successful .
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Within a short time his business became so successful he bought the shop where he had worked without pay.
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As it was so successful I have agreed I will do another one in April.
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Joe was not so successful in his effort to secure a commission.
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Now it's been so successful , it's opening on a permanent basis.
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He and his girlfriend occupied two stools and had a lot of attitude because they were so successful .
very
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Classical elasticity assumes this to be the case and it has been very successful with continuous media.
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I fear I have not been very successful , in any case.
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We were very successful in getting more than £40 million for unpaid benefits.
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Walker Equipment is a very successful company specializing in the sale and leasing of heavy construction equipment.
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Some centres had been very successful in training these children to make valuable objects.
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One guy who has been very successful at it once told me his secret of success.
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So we weren't very successful at hitch-hiking.
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It was a very successful flight test.
■ NOUN
business
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It's a highly successful business .
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This simple name has helped break through the clutter of all the other suppliers to build a successful business .
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During that time Cathy and Margaret have created a thriving, successful business .
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This system has worked well for some of our most successful business enterprises, particularly in the technological and medical industries.
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In 1686 he inherited his father's properties and continued his successful business as a producer of linseed and rape oil.
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She thought that she could build a successful business of her own by offering herself as an agent to authors she chose.
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Once again, I was restless and unfulfilled, though I now had a successful business and was happily married.
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Today the Foglios have a successful business with an impressive income.
businessman
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Galloway had made his way in life and was now a successful businessman .
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Perry, a successful businessman , brought a brisk and decisive managerial style to the Defense Department.
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He wanted to get out of the old activist scene and transform himself into a modern, successful businessman .
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Don Basilio is a successful businessman in the wool industry.
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Jaggard's first book was registered with the Stationers' Company on 4 March 1595; he rapidly became a successful businessman .
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He was a highly successful businessman , a leader in a local evangelical church.
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Perhaps Mond the chemist and highly successful businessman would approve of the mixture.
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He lied when he ran for governor on the platform of being a successful businessman and political outsider.
campaign
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Financially, Peter and I had had a successful campaign together.
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It will be a highly successful campaign and will cost £5 million.
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We countered with a successful campaign to convince the young lawyers section to take a pro-ERA stance.
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The successful campaign to introduce commercial television into Britain in the 1950s is a good example of this.
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Barbour is now Republican national chairman, and Stevens went on to a string of successful campaigns , including those of Sens.
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He was also a leading member of Mr Major's successful campaign team for the Tory leadership 16 months ago.
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It has secured sales and has certainly proved a successful campaign .
candidate
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The successful candidate is awarded his next kyu grade.
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It is envisaged that the successful candidate will have a recent postgraduate qualification or a good honours degree.
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If a glowing prospect is held out then a successful candidate will expect it.
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The successful candidates will fill the ten process, six industrial mechanic and two automation technician trainee positions that were made available.
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When the College was in its early years, certain outstanding medical men signed the diploma awarded to successful candidates .
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And his seven years of study have paid off, with his name among those of this week's successful candidates .
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The next steps are for the successful candidates to take.
career
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Their previous cutter Vigilant was still going strong and it was hoped that Searcher would have an equally successful career .
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My friend the liberal won an upset victory and went on to a successful career in politics.
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Thus Hans Sloane began the thorough grounding on which he was to build his successful career .
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Women do the same work as men, have the same successful careers , but not always for the same pay.
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Its present director is Sidney Newey, a successful career railwayman who sees almost endless possibilities for new routes.
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Guilt Myra was an elegant young woman of thirty-three with a successful career in advertising.
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Good practical administrative abilities must be secured in order to make a successful career out of conveyancing.
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Close friends since schooldays, Joanna and Helen are now successful career women in their twenties.
completion
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A nationally recognised qualification should be awarded on successful completion of a validated course.
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Part 4 goes on to look at the training of parents in skills necessary for successful completion of these steps.
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A rather grand certificate marking the successful completion of all the tasks also adds to the attraction.
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Upon successful completion , the salesperson is then entrusted to sell the washing machines and dryers unaided.
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On the other hand the exhilaration following the successful completion of such a task is well worth the effort.
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The successful completion of this part of the set-up is announced by three beeps.
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The University also awards an ordinary degree on successful completion of certain courses.
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On successful completion of the training they then transfer to another ship in the fleet and work as a waiter or waitress.
conclusion
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For example, employees may receive bonus payments on the successful conclusion of their overseas assignments.
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Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, was brought to a successful conclusion and the canonization ceremonies followed in the year 1726.
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Whenever this happens, the onus is on you to control the call and steer the conversation to a successful conclusion .
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The successful conclusion of the operation now commencing will be of great value to our country.
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For all those reasons, it is essential that there is a successful conclusion to the Maastricht summit next month.
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Each successive crisis in our history is mapped and each depends in a measure on the successful conclusion of the ones previous.
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A successful conclusion would boost the world economy by £200 billion.
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We simply glued the broken ear back in place and she carried on to a successful conclusion .
entrepreneur
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Again, like most successful entrepreneurs , he knows the value of showmanship.
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Most successful entrepreneurs are hard on themselves, in the sense that they are never easily satisfied.
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The plots were essentially the same; like any successful entrepreneur , Alger knew when he was on to a good thing.
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The world of successful entrepreneurs is full of smiling faces and confident attitudes.
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Billy Butlin became the most successful entrepreneur in this explosive growth.
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This is true among all the successful entrepreneurs we have studied.
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Bill went on to become a successful entrepreneur .
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In fact, most successful entrepreneurs get used to treating virtually everyone they meet as a possible piece of business.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fabulously rich/expensive/successful etc
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And she must have been fabulously rich to live in a house like this.
halfway decent/normal/successful etc
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And you need to be halfway decent and honest and real.
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Discs viable, a second halfway decent act was required.
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Reading about that stuff, downing really halfway decent coffee.
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Sefelt has pulled back halfway normal, swelling up and down with big wet, rattling breaths.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a successful businessman
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a rich, successful entrepreneur
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a small but successful program to boost the number of African-Americans getting into college
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After a long run in the band Genesis, he had a successful solo career.
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Did you have a successful shopping trip?
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Eddie Murphy is one of Hollywood's most successful stars.
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For twenty years, he was the head of a successful law firm.
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Freire introduced highly successful literacy programs in Brazil.
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Gradually, word spread, and we built up a very successful business indeed.
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He returned to Merseyside after a successful tour with Johnny Gentle.
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If the treatment is successful , she could be back at school next month.
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it was a highly successful campaign.
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It was one of the President's most successful speeches.
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Our most successful product is based on a very simple idea.
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The case of Thailand illustrates why family planning programs have been so successful in many countries.
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The scheme was started in January 2000, and has prove largely successful .
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The surgery was successful .
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Their new advertising campaign has been very successful .
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This has been Baltimore's most successful art show ever.
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Three years ago she married a successful businessman, and now she never sees her old friends.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another one trying to prevent the Federation descending into chaos; he would be no more successful than the Archon.
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He hated his field of work, at which he was actually quite successful professionally.
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He wanted to get out of the old activist scene and transform himself into a modern, successful businessman.
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So what makes a successful manager?
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The better you know them, the more you can use them, the more successful you will be.
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To be successful , a former member must have served on an influential committee and acquired expertise on controversial issues.