noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a family unit
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the breakup of the traditional family unit
a film crew/unit (= a group of people working together to make a film )
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The film crew are making a documentary about village life.
an army unit
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The town was surrounded by army units.
bomb disposal experts/team/squad/unit
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The device, which contained 400lbs of explosive, was made safe by army bomb disposal experts.
central processing unit
combat troops/soldiers/forces/units
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US combat troops were in the streets of the capital yesterday.
motorized division/unit/battalion
rapid-response forces/team/unit etc
SI unit
unit price
unit trust
visual display unit
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
basic
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Its accessories enable the basic unit to use the cleaning and sterilising power of steam for cleaning, too.
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In language the basic units are distinctive sounds and words.
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The basic unit of bucket, up-pipe and pebbles with oxygenators in place makes a simple fountain on its own.
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The AK-47 is the basic international unit of death.
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In many species the basic unit is the harem, with one dominant male surrounding himself with a number of breeding females.
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The change in price from the first to the second sale of each house is the basic unit measured.
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The basic unit of trade will be the right to emit one ton of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere each year.
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If cooperation and exchange are to continue to flourish in our most basic social unit , family members also need reliable contracts.
central
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The multiprocessor version of the R4000 central processing unit is expected, finally, in November.
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Choice of pagers A paging system consists of a central control unit together with a pager for each employee.
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Staffing Additional labour costs in respect of the central production unit are estimated at £12,000 perannum.
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Your call is free and goes to a central advisory unit rather than to your local Social Security office.
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There are three restaurants, each on a different floor, all supplied by a central in-house production unit .
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Workers at the industry's central research unit wanted to determine how high-voltage transmission lines and smoke from power stations affect trees.
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The information may be text, numbers, colours and so on, or information for the computer central processor unit .
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It now seems set to be pushed back at least three months, as the chosen central processing units are causing problems.
intensive
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A neonatal intensive care unit is, on this view, a good example of special treatment.
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There is a 16-bed intensive care unit and two operating rooms that can also be expanded.
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I had seen two of them in the intensive care unit during my tour.
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He is in stable condition in the intensive care unit at Kaiser Medical Center in Vallejo.
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Mrs Carrington takes up the account from the time when her husband was admitted to the intensive care unit .
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Following penicillin and cefotaxime administration he was transferred to the intensive care unit , where he made a complete recovery.
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The second is, if there are to be intensive care units , what share of resources should they have?
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John spent two weeks in hospital and 10 days in the intensive care unit after receiving internal burns.
large
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The major factor leading to the growth of large business units is therefore modern technology.
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Perched at the top level is one large unit .
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Farms were mainly in the 10-40 hectare range although there were some larger units .
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The large police unit was surprising also in the absence of even the mildest hint of trouble.
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During the fluent phase, planning takes place over a larger unit than the clause.
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For these reasons, Option 1, the largest unit , is preferable.
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In addition there has been an increasing proportion of companies concerned with distribution, and with larger retail unit operations.
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Recent research, however, has drawn our attention increasingly to the larger units in the landscape.
military
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That effort produced only modest reductions in uniformed personnel and military units and preserved all major procurement programs.
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The army preferred to keep order without the aid of unreliable military units .
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In August the government ordered the dissolution of the military unit involved in the massacre.
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S.-sponsored military unit would apply to Joe if Chennault wanted him in his command.
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After all, he had managed to defeat the system and was in sole command of a small military unit .
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Each figure represents one of the military units that fought in the Battle of Baltimore in September of 1814.
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Initial reports indicated hundreds had been killed when a military unit had been stoned by a hungry and unruly mob.
new
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The money will go towards the new unit that is to be built at the clinic.
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Its second project was construction of 36 new units , which it sold to more public housing residents.
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That was done quite simply by creating a new unit alongside the original.
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In addition, the retailer formed a new unit to provide leadership to its stores in its top 10 markets.
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This new unit also had responsibility for issues relating to race, gender, disability.
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We see the councils as a new democratic unit in the community.
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The new unit will offer services even where the customer has decided to install all non-IBM hardware.
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In 1995 the number of new units was 532 and, it was 600 in 1996, said Herrera.
single
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This single speaker unit is designed to add to an existing hi fi setup to provide a dramatic improvement in bass reproduction.
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Previously, the machines were counted as single units , but now the state counts them as several machines.
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The measure of conservation is the amount of energy required to produce a single unit of economic growth.
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We have been speaking, so far, of the effects of context on the meaning of a single lexical unit .
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Ligature letters which are joined together as a single unit of type such as oe and fi.
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The first was the creation of a single chemotherapy in-patient unit .
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The end panels were constructed as single units , with an 8in difference in height front to back for the roof.
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A word or combination of letters set as a single unit .
small
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More memory would allow the use of a smaller delay unit and hence finer control over exposure.
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For others, syllable and character represent at most not a word but rather a morpheme, the smallest unit of meaning.
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One involved a small unit in the form of a bedsit-type hostel with facilities for 14 residents.
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Second, teaching teams across disciplines that work with students create smaller units within the school.
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What looks like thinning in a major unit may turn out to be something much more complicated in the smaller constituent units.
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In this preliminary study a small number of units were examined.
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The MAC750 is a smaller unit than the 650 I tested, and is recommended for that more delicate carving.
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Some 15,000 crofts, small family farm units that offer marginal incomes and mainly part-time employment, have survived.
special
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It has a special family unit where whole families can be admitted.
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A special unit will be set up to stop crooks beating the system.
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This type of care is usually carried out in special units .
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It may sometimes be worth forming a special unit to support the creation, implementation, maintenance and evaluation of the policy.
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Such special units have their own procedures for dealing with these hazards.
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They do this with training courses for managers or with special units that advise local branches on technical matters.
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The link was adjacent to the neurological ward and special care baby unit .
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But now he was Karr's man; part of his special services unit .
■ NOUN
business
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The responsibility for obtaining such information rests with the business units themselves and/or a central research and development department.
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The company said it will combine its international commercial-industrial operations with its domestic commercial-industrial business unit .
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The major factor leading to the growth of large business units is therefore modern technology.
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Portland General will become one of five business units at Enron, which has 7, 000 employees worldwide.
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A company reorganization has created 22 separate business units , making each accountable for its own profits and losses.
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Companies ignore innovations because they do not fit into any of their existing business units .
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Osaka remains general manager of the company's Commercial Systems Division, a separate business unit .
care
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A neonatal intensive care unit is, on this view, a good example of special treatment.
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Meant to be born in 1997, she spent her first Christmas in the neonatal intensive care unit with 16 other preemies.
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I had seen two of them in the intensive care unit during my tour.
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Her son remained in guarded condition Monday in an intensive care unit .
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Mrs Carrington takes up the account from the time when her husband was admitted to the intensive care unit .
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The girl remains in serious but stable condition in the intensive care unit at Broward General Medical Center.
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Facilities will include an intensive care unit and an oiled bird cleaning facility.
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Following penicillin and cefotaxime administration he was transferred to the intensive care unit , where he made a complete recovery.
control
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Computers with control units implemented in this way are called microprogrammed computers.
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The control unit , the motor and the electronic parts of the spindle were imported.
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In practice we may find it difficult to separate the hardware of the data manipulation unit from that of the control unit.
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The environmental control unit was a squat concrete abutment with metal slotted vents.
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The control unit then enters the execute phase, to carry out the operation decoded in the fetch phase.
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Several changes in the control unit were made in the 1960s but the technology remained expensive and had relatively little diffusion.
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A waveform analyser processes the voltage signals and returns Position detector pulses to the control unit at the required Positions.
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A remote control unit will offer an on-screen menu.
display
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In addition, card readers and display units can be located at various point-of-sale positions such as bars and restaurants.
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Once there it may appear on editor's data bank visual display unit as a single-line headline.
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There are integrated visual display units attached. 3.
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The contents of any message stored in the teleprinter's memory can be viewed on the visual display unit . 8.
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It stood noticeably prominent amongst a room full of competitors' display units in all shapes and sizes.
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A range of multi-tiered refrigerated display units has been launched by Grundy Oliver Toms.
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Specialised lighting, racking systems and display units have all been installed.
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They guide the driver through towns using a dash top display unit and an electronic voice.
kitchen
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Magnet's wide choice of kitchen units includes traditional and modern styles, and prices to fit any budget.
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Take, for example, a small company producing fitted kitchen units .
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There's a vast range of kitchen units available in a choice of materials.
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Can be integrated into kitchen units .
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It's also the same height as your kitchen units for a perfect fit.
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A cooker and four kitchen units were destroyed, and the remainder of the flat badly smoke logged.
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That's when Simon got the idea of making kitchen units , too.
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The last words he had spoken to me on the subject of kitchen units had been really quite abusive.
trust
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They can buy life assurance companies, run unit trusts and take over or start stockbroking firms.
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Sharemarket also operates a unit trust discount service for investors who have made up their own minds.
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Smaller investors with £30,000 can use the bank's unit trust portfolio management service.
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Life companies have until the end of 1991 to switch their unit trusts into the underlying shares without tax penalties.
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The rate of growth of unit trusts has been erratic.
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Fidelity is also at the forefront of the new style cash unit trusts .
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Curiously, the unit trust industry - usually quick to hype its products - has been rather slow to attract children.
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For investors with less, it offers a unit trust portfolio management service for a minimum of £25,000.
■ VERB
sell
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Fujitsu looks to sell 35,000 units of the new models over the next two years.
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Wall Street had been clamoring for Kodak to sell the unit .
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We know from Table 2.2 that the firm will be able to sell the entire 100,000 units at this price.
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There were lines of people selling blood at mobile units , people who seemed hollow-bodied, so small, in such collapse.
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But how much does it cost to sell the units ?
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In more than one case entire housing subdivisions have been sold before the first unit was constructed.
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Currently priced at £149, they have sold about 50,000 units in the year since it was first launched.
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Kodak is exploring either selling its copier unit or setting a joint venture or strategic alliance.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
counter-terrorist operation/team/unit etc
nursery education/unit/teacher etc
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A nursery unit was built in 1977 and has two teachers.
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Are these the partnership circumstances in which we want children to receive nursery education?
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First, a nursery education for all three and four year olds whose parents wish by the year 2000.
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He is always pleased to see his nursery teacher but is terrified that she will think he is a naughty boy.
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In one instance a nursery teacher felt that she should praise a little boy every time he spoke to her.
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Is he further aware that a problem exists in finding suitable financial resources for nursery education?
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Keith Mitchell, director of education, has recommended consideration be given to the new nursery units at the meeting.
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Must they wait until they are four, and then go into part-time nursery education?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A fathom is the unit of measurement used in calculating sea depth.
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A new psychiatric unit will be added to the John F. Kennedy Medical Center.
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Funding has been approved for a 40-bed unit for the elderly at Aberdare General Hospital.
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Garrett is part of an elite military unit .
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Hospital officials plan to use the donations to set up a new cardiac unit .
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How many units do you need to graduate?
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HSBC Futures Inc. is a unit of Hong Kong Shanghai Bank.
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It takes your body about an hour to burn up one unit of alcohol, such as half a pint of beer.
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Milk costs less per unit when purchased in gallon containers.
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One of the policemen from the drug unit will be visiting local schools.
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Some police units were stationed nearby.
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The asteroids all lie between 2.2 and 3.3 astronomical units from the sun.
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The basic social unit in ancient Germanic tribes was the clan.
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The Presario 1410 monitor, a 14-inch unit , will sell for $399.
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What's the unit of currency in India?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At unit head meetings, he had frequently felt as if he lived in a world far removed from the other directors.
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Clients still have to pay for their vacations, which usually involve the use of unused timeshare units.
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It was a heroic effort to try to evaluate business units using some notion of market valuation.
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Many courts rubber stamp them and those children who like being in secure units may not press to leave.