noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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build
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If they can build aqueducts you'd think they could engineer a wallet to keep their money in.
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La Reine Pedauque is credited with building the aqueduct which supplied Toulouse with water.
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The city had built a great water-supply aqueduct to the Croton River and was imagining its future subway system.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A miniature aqueduct led water from the spring into a well at the garth's centre.
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After another island with half blocked off by Hamstead Wharf there are two aqueducts.
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She is associated with a bridge, a subterranean aqueduct and a magic distaff, one of the symbols of Athene.
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The city had built a great water-supply aqueduct to the Croton River and was imagining its future subway system.
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The water, carried in pressure aqueducts and siphons, could arrive under its own power.
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Their social organization resulted in the building of bridges, roads, and aqueducts that still stand.
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This is a comparatively short section, in a beautiful setting, of an original aqueduct 25 miles long.
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To their credit, they floodlight the aqueduct each night, such is its splendour.