adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brilliant/amazing bargain
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The house they bought was an amazing bargain.
a remarkable/amazing/extraordinary coincidence
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What an extraordinary coincidence meeting you here!
a remarkable/amazing/miraculous recovery
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Doctors have every confidence that Laura will continue her remarkable recovery.
an amazing variety
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The market has an amazing variety of fresh fish.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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And even more amazing that he can still squeeze through chimneys and central heating air vents in tower blocks.
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When that happens it becomes more amazing than any word processor made of microchips.
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If that all sounds like success, there is another, more amazing story which Provincial can now tell.
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Even more amazing was his ability to beam Gedanken up into this thought world.
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But more amazing still is the composition of this group.
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Even more amazing , Elsie, who had been getting in touch with her previously repudiated strengths, stopped complaining for the day.
most
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But perhaps the most amazing statistic is Clinton's age.
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They hear most usually from the share salesmen, the most amazing stories of quick and fantastic profits.
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He had the most amazing brain.
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She was pale and willowy, with a large mouth and the most amazing violet eyes that you ever did see.
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So-called en primeur selling is one of the most amazing confidence tricks ever pulled.
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That's the vital element, and whilst it remains the human body can survive the most amazing injuries.
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It is the most amazing experience to go through.
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However bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.
quite
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It was quite amazing , really.
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The picture of the seminarian reminds us too of the quite amazing increase of vocations in most of the young churches.
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And I think you're quite amazing .
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It was quite amazing really because we'd never seen any of these things before.
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It is quite amazing how much the human eye actually misses when we walk from place to place.
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Tony used to come up with some quite amazing ideas and we'd try and put them into practice.
■ NOUN
amount
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During the next few days an amazing amount of evidence came to light.
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And yet an amazing amount of good feeling, and even jollity, cropped out between these opposed pickets at times.
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It was an amazing amount of wine they got through down at Wyvis Hall, and not only wine.
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They carried an amazing amount of news, considering the difficulty of surface transport and the absence of telephone and telegraph.
thing
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The amazing thing is they addressed customers exactly the same way.
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The amazing thing is that's usually what happens.
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The amazing thing about infidelity is that, for a long time, you don't believe it's happening.
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And it all does work, that's the amazing thing .
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The amazing thing is that his measurements were so accurate.
variety
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Geologists are aware of the existence of 2000 or more minerals with an amazing variety of properties.
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An amazing variety of sport and entertainment awaits you.
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There's an amazing variety of wild flowers, insects, birds and other wildlife.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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amazing stories of UFOs
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After 2000 years, it's amazing that the inscriptions are still clear enough to read.
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Hong Kong is an absolutely amazing city.
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Isn't it amazing to think that men have actually stood on the moon?
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It's amazing how much work you can do in a day if you put your mind to it.
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It's an amazing ride. You really feel like you're flying.
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What an amazing achievement!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If there is a single secret behind the Tories' amazing , unprecedented four-timer it is this.
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Isn't it amazing - her getting on so well with Uncle Félix?
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It was a spectacular creature, an amazing animal, a monster by any measure.
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It was a very good offer, an amazing offer, considering who it came from.
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The amazing thing is they addressed customers exactly the same way.
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The long granny nightie with frills at the wrists didn't really go with the amazing chequer-board hair.
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The lost river and the lost people side by side - amazing .