adjective
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a good/useful/helpful/handy tip
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Go to their website to find useful tips on buying and selling a home.
a helpful/useful/valuable suggestion
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He made various helpful suggestions.
a useful distinction
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He makes a useful distinction between the two theories.
a useful means
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Local radio is a useful means of advertising.
a useful purpose
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Nuclear weapons serve no useful purpose and should be banned.
a useful source
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People said television was their most useful source of local information.
a useful/handy checklist
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This is a useful checklist for anyone travelling abroad.
a useful/valuable contribution
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I joined the society because I felt I could make a useful contribution.
a valid/useful/meaningful comparison (= a reasonable one, based on sensible information )
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There is not enough data for a valid comparison to be made.
an important/useful/valuable clue
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The car used in the robbery may provide important clues.
find sth/sb easy/useful/interesting etc
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She found the work very dull.
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Lots of women I know find him attractive.
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I found them quite easy to use.
good/excellent/useful/helpful
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The book is full of good advice.
practical/useful/helpful pointers
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a few useful pointers about using the technique
useful/valuable experience (= useful experience )
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That summer he got some valuable experience working in a tax office.
useful/valuable
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The information he gave me was very useful.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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But it is also useful to plan formal dissemination in advance.
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Though the main purpose was to raise money, the crowd count was also useful for political chest-pounding.
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These books are also useful for teacher-trainers preparing in-service courses, and as reference sources to teachers working on their own.
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These debates were also useful in reallocating resources in order to set up and build an infrastructure in some specific areas.
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Integrating soaking with cleaning operations is also useful .
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It is also useful to understand the prognosis for this disease in the future.
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It is also useful when giving a delivery date.
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Expertise is also useful to those blocked from gaining other sources of power.
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This is why it is quite as useful in savoury as in sweet dishes.
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They see themselves as useful and important people who have learned that they have something to contribute to their communities and families.
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It is as useful as a dictionary.
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Steady base-load electricity sources will always be needed, and solar and wind power can only act as useful supplements.
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Both powers in practice are as useful as a parachute in a space ship - reassuring but not very practical.
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Some find it useful to have extra pockets on a rucksack as useful organisers, others regard them as a hindrance.
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A sample of a few hundred census records is often just as useful as a database of several thousands.
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It's especially useful in lofts or cellars, and will also dispose of bath and/or shower waste through the same pipes.
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This variety is especially useful for planting in the corners of an aquarium, where it provides a shelter for refuge-seeking fishes.
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Carbol fuchsin is especially useful for autoradiography as it will not interfere with emulsion and will not wash out in developer.
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This is an especially useful process in plants with long creeping rootstocks such as Anubias, Lagenandra, and Acorus.
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It may be especially useful , if used alongside other types of evidence.
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This approach is especially useful for longer documents that require more planning.
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It is especially useful in patients with frequently occurring, slow, haemodynamically well-tolerated tachycardia.
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Found something intriguing, improbable, insane or especially useful on the Net?
extremely
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Propagating plants An electric propagator is both economical and extremely useful .
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With more detailed information, this can be an extremely useful feature.
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Morphine and its related narcotics have proved extremely useful in their ability to control pain.
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Infantry officer Thomas Giltner also found C4 extremely useful .
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This can be extremely useful for overviews of a thin section, grain shape and size determinations and for fabric analysis.
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One extremely useful diagnostic technique is classroom observation by psychologists and / or educators familiar with the disorder.
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Film evidence can be extremely useful in investigating how the media both influence and reflect contemporary events and opinion.
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The dialogue proved extremely useful to Park.
how
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In some of Darwin's own researches we can see how useful it was.
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Realising how useful it would be to have a doctor in their band, Magdalena was put to studying medicine.
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Q30 How useful is social class as a variable for segmenting consumer markets?
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How would this affect the provision of instructions for performing loops? How useful would it be?
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And as for the gawping idiots - haven't you thought how useful a little judicious publicity could be?
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Even if we accept this, it is questionable how useful an analytical framework is which has an untenable base.
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Have you any criticisms of the output layout? How useful are the graphical facilities? 2.
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Results were similar when staff were asked how informative and how useful is the content of the publication.
more
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This is perhaps a more useful analogy than might at first sight appear.
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It is equally correct and sometimes more useful to view demand from the reference point of quantity.
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This is the same as saying information delivered in a particular form is more useful in certain applications than in others.
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Jane gets more useful when returned to.
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I got a lot more useful background about flying around both North and South Islands from Murray too.
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And if I may say so, they seem more useful than yours.
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If you've ended up with 2 secs. stop down and repeat until you get something more useful .
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When this happens, better or more useful alternatives are missed, perhaps with new companies or new colleges.
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Indirect methods are the most useful .
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In recent years, a dozen rules have emerged as most useful: 1.
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Many of the most useful people in the Linux community can be found in newsgroups and mailing lists.
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Presented here are the three techniques that I have found most useful for working fathers.
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This is most useful , since it promotes cash flow through the business in the first and early years of trading.
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As noted earlier, water is the most useful shielding material against cosmic rays and solar protons.
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However, 39% felt tax planning was the most useful area of advice, and only 27% cited business strategy.
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The new technology could prove most useful in subsea drilling, where the expenses involved in stopping production are enormous.
particularly
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Finally, deviant country studies are particularly useful for theory generation.
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The assay is particularly useful in patients with circulating insulin antibodies or in those being treated with insulin.
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These are particularly useful if the sack is intended for group use, or for young people who are still growing.
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This may not at first seem particularly useful .
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Their booklet Help at Hand is particularly useful .
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This is particularly useful if done before leaving for work on hot days.
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The Fishpen will be particularly useful to separate young fish from their parents or to help introduce new fish safely.
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The method of submatrices is particularly useful in solving both these problems.
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It is therefore very useful to make up lists of those outlets which you may want to contact regularly.
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The final chapter, Chapter 8, provides very useful guidance in further reading which can be invaluable to the motivated student.
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Brad Johnstone has a sound track record of moulding such players into a very useful outfit.
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Familiarity with two basic property documents - a lease and a conveyance - is very useful .
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Thornton had good contacts as well, and proved very useful in arranging meetings.
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So the visual record may be very useful in some situations.
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But whatever his motives, he soon realized that he had tapped a very useful vein of information in Ted Morgan.
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Old deeds can be very useful for such a purpose, and certainly any containing plans should in general be retained.
■ NOUN
advice
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Kit-house companies will help you design your home and provide useful advice .
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They entertained them with the utmost hospitality and before they bade them farewell Helenus gave them useful advice about their journey.
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This one contains some more useful advice at this particular stage.
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These specialists can offer useful advice and practical support.
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Nigel gave her a little useful advice on publishers too.
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Ceologists and environmental specialists can generally provide useful advice .
function
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Yet it does perform a number of useful functions . 1.
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The use of categories, when those categories serve a useful function , is not questioned.
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We've found a tiny offshoot of imagination that once, like the appendix doubtless had some useful function .
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While it survived, it served a useful function in obtaining agreement on some economic questions such as currency convertibility and capital transfers.
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To be fair, these materials performed a useful function for a time in the propellers of Spitfires and similar aircraft.
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One useful function of hypotheses is that they help to indicate what data are needed for their testing.
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However, he suggests that fear does have a useful function .
information
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Analysis of a water supply gives much useful information and is essential when a new supply is being considered for textile processing.
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Studies of the spectrum of sunlight reflected from these asteroids have given us useful information on the minerals present in them.
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More specifically, in most offices the interception and reading of correspondence which seemed a possible source of useful information still continued.
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Large numbers of locally published guide-books and brochures relating to individual shrines have proved to be mines of useful information .
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Both naturally-occurring and artificial isotopic mixtures can give useful information .
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He had no useful information about the shooting that took place nearby as Cosby changed a flat tire, police said.
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Other useful information is also given at the back of the book.
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This was useful information in a terraced society.
life
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Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years.
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It has an expected useful life of ten years, after which its estimated salvage value would be $ 10, 000.
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The instance cited was where debt charges continue to be included in revenue accounts for financing assets whose useful life is over.
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Finally the salvage value of the new equipment at the end of its expected useful life is reflected.
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It has an expected useful life of ten years and the residual value is likely to be negligible.
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Any asset with an expected useful life of more than one year is normally considered a capital asset.
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According to Craig, the length of useful life of geological papers varies according to their subfield.
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Depreciation accounting is simply a technique used to allocate the cost of a capital asset over its expected useful life .
purpose
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That would serve no useful purpose .
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No useful purpose would be served by repeating it here.
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It is perhaps in the field of attribution that this catalogue serves the most useful purpose .
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Brand names serve a useful purpose , not just for the producer but for the consumer as well.
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Therefore, s.64 would no longer serve a useful purpose .
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But adverse planetary influences invariably serve a useful purpose - and never more so than right now.
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Mr Kaczynski has determined that no useful purpose would be served in demanding the duplicative process of a preliminary hearing.
source
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He seemed a useful source where Dysart's Oxford days were concerned.
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Anyone who is interested in woven textiles will find this a useful source book.
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Social historians of the future should find it a useful source when quoting the anti-Reagan lobby.
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Such leases are therefore a useful source of genealogical information.
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This branding element can be a useful source of revenue, as this space can be sold to advertise local businesses.
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As always, the behaviour of light is a useful source of illustration.
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It chronicles recent changes within the professions and the health services and is a useful source of reference and information.
tip
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I discovered this to be a useful tip , but not when it came to long-distance telephone calls.
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Anyway, you really should have just taken the useful tips from his lecture and let the rest slide.
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Here is a very useful tip .
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Both are full of useful tips on bringing about organizational change.
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It also contains a record of races and also distance &038; metric conversions plus many useful tips .
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A useful tip is to make sure that no more than two brandy snaps are baked on each tray.
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The useful tips and good advice really came in handy-despite my years of experience.
way
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This form, printed on three sides of A4 paper, is a useful way of recording information elicited during the interview.
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Social contracts are strictly hypothetical-no one has ever actually signed one-but they provide a useful way of thinking about social arrangements.
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Air photographs Aerial photographs are often a useful way to start to approach these historic landscapes and townscapes.
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But some issues, like this one, are so universally difficult that a commission is the only useful way to proceed.
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One useful way of assisting your learning is to keep a diary.
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Managed care can be a very useful way to provide care to a lot of people.
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The West can still help, in a more useful way than Mr Kissinger proposed.
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Several years ago, Pensacola, Florida, developed a useful way to classify public services.
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Investigators have not found any useful clues in the case.
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Scotch tape is very useful for making quick repairs.
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See page 35 for a list of useful addresses.
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The bank gave us a lot of useful advice about starting our own business.
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This equipment will prove useful in testing premature babies who we suspect might have hearing problems.
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And a big stick comes in useful too.
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For parts, he scrounged around various offices and supply rooms, scavenging what seemed useful .
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It is useful to minimize the reminders and lectures.
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Often a single chemical reaction is not sufficient to synthesize a useful end-product.
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Other useful information is also given at the back of the book.
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The legal knowledge was useful , and the degree and license another step forward, but practicing law was not his ambition.
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Yes, those ladies had given a useful fillip to his prestige.