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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For instance, he collects on his little card index all references in Wells to feeding, eating, and patent medicines.
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His job was to make a card index of suspect radicals - anyone who wrote or talked against government.
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Once inside they went to the card index .
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Telephone numbers can be kept separately, on a card index or in a contact book.
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The reports are indexed by subject and location as appropriate on a card index .
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This computerised index replaced a card index system that used to have to be updated by hand by bureaux staff.
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Within a file, information is organized in a number of records, rather like the cards in a card index .