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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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early
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Since early August , the rates have declined by 0.3 per cent.
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Fastmaturing varieties that might take a scant seven weeks until harvest begins should be sown in early August .
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He got his first chance on the early August day that Mayor George Miller awarded him the one-year job.
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In early August he was finally ready.
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This election will be sometime between mid-July and early August .
late
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Bernstein had first heard this in late August from a reporter on an-other newspaper.
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Since late August , Milhoan has been pursuing a complaint against Capt.
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The greatest variety of birds are sighted in late April and May and in late August and September.
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In late August , after testing the cataract with an empty barrel, he announced that he would go over him-self.
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Trouble for the Hoovers started on a hot, late August Sunday in 1953.
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Legally challenged by opponents since the Nov. 5 election, it was upheld by a federal appeals court in late August .
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In late August , he was hitting. 330.
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In late August , three months into her stay, an eighteen-year old Phoenix girl was admitted with bulbar polio.
national
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The Reform Party will hold a national convention in August or early September.
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announce
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The two groups announced last August they had come up with dense wavelength division multiplexing prototype chips.
begin
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A lower court in Hawaii is expected to uphold such legalization in a case with opening arguments that begin in August .
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The first patient began the study in August 1995 and the last in February 1996, Markowitz said.
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Sales to corporate accounts will begin in August , with retail sales by December.
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The case was remanded to a lower court, where arguments are scheduled to begin in August .
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He hopes to complete the cleanup, which began in August , by the end of the week.
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Repetition of the violence in Memphis began in August 1866 in New Orleans when several related events culminated in a racial explosion.
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He received a 21-month sentence, which he began serving last August .
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The rally has defied all odds and logic with only two, short interruptions since it began its climb in August 1982.
beginning
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The Raptors will have an exclusive bargaining window beginning in August .
born
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The embryos that became Megan and Morag were produced in February 1995, and they were born in August 1995.
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Jessica Waddell Lewinstein was born in August 1983.
die
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He replaced Vazgen I, who died in August 1994 after nearly four decades as supreme patriarch.
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Canonized 1234; died , August 6; feast day, August 8.
feast
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Emygdius' ability to evangelize created such a stir that the newly appointed bishop was beheaded. Feast day, August 9.
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Also patron of jaundice sufferers. Feast day, August 8.
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Sebald tossed icicles into the chimney, which disbursed warmth throughout the cottage. Feast day, August 19.
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Canonized 1657; feast day, August 31.
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Also patron of actors, lawyers, printers, and secretaries. Feast day, August 25.
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Also patron of crusaders, kings, and parenthood. Feast day, August 25.
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Canonized 1234; died, August 6; feast day, August 8.
follow
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She was in Charleston, South Carolina, the following August when an eight-minute earthquake caused 110 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
open
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Bids are expected to be opened in July or August .
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But the grand opening in August 1990 would have been ruined had the diplomats known everything about their elegant chancery.
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The same company is also expected to operate the orbital light rail route which opens in August .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As Margaret Regan reported in August , the number of students at the new campus was 44 on opening day.
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On August 27 she walked into a restaurant outside Cadiz, where Noye was dining.
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On the sixth day, the first of August , I was frightened.
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The bomb blasts in Moscow last August remain unsolved.
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The last to die was David Mason, who was sent to the gas chamber in August 1993.
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Trouble for the Hoovers started on a hot, late August Sunday in 1953.