noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a childhood dream (= that you had when you were a child )
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I had a childhood dream of becoming an astronaut.
a childhood friend (= someone who was your friend when you were a child )
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She had been a childhood friend of Tony Walker.
a childhood illness
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Measles is a common childhood illness.
a childhood memory
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Going to the farm brought back happy childhood memories.
an unhappy childhood
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Stevens had a unhappy childhood in Manchester.
childhood experiences
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Our childhood experiences make us what we are as adults.
childhood sweethearts
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They were childhood sweethearts.
loveless marriage/childhood/relationship etc
sb's childhood/teenage years
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the home in which she spent her childhood years
sb’s boyhood/childhood hero (= someone who was your hero when you were a boy/child )
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McEnroe had been one of his boyhood heroes.
sb’s childhood/boyhood etc home (= where you lived as a child )
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I had not been back to my childhood home for ten years.
sb’s early childhood/adolescence/life (= when someone is a young child, adolescent etc )
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We’ve known each other since early childhood.
second childhood
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
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Several other individual and household characteristics could be examined for their influence upon probabilities of early childhood survival.
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All three children have been involved in the business from their earliest childhood .
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Fighting against threats to young children's rights to early childhood opportunities could be seen as an expression of legitimate collective responsibility.
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One is a small pile of undated photographs I have from my early childhood .
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There is a great deal of evidence which indicates that experiences in early childhood are very important, and that the effects are long-lasting.
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Indeed, the schemata of adulthood have their origins in the schemata of early childhood .
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There was nothing in his early childhood to hint at the extraordinary life he would lead.
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But there are several stories about his early childhood .
happy
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But, although she had progressed from happy childhood to happy marriage, all the while a conflict was raging within her.
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Born in Swansea of modest entrepreneurial stock, he had a happy childhood , and he recreates its pleasures well.
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I had a very happy childhood !
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Both Charles and Diana were determined that their children were going to have normal, happy childhoods .
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Both had had happy , loving childhoods: with that, he always claimed, you could cope with anything.
■ NOUN
cancer
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Further research is to be carried out among 5,000 people who survived childhood cancer and were born before 1969.
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The latest report looked at 74 recorded cases of childhood cancer in the area between 1950 and 1985.
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This suggested that unlike adult cancers , childhood cancers were not caused by factors in the environment.
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A longitudinal health study of this population is required to see if the incidence of other childhood cancers is increased.
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Incidence of second primary tumours among childhood cancer survivors.
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Family support is also important in the University's childhood cancer programme.
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Pollutants such as nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons have also been linked to hay fever, chest infection and childhood cancer .
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Management of childhood cancers follows a different path to that of adult cancers.
days
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His mind was back to those warm childhood days before the war.
disease
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Mr Brown also announced plans to provide developing countries with cheap vaccines against childhood diseases .
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Also invoked against childhood diseases and physical abuse.
dream
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In it he details his childhood dream of climbing Everest - and his fulfilment of this remarkable ambition three years ago.
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It was nursing that gave her the financial wherewithal to pursue a childhood dream .
education
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This project originated from a recognition that a major concern in early childhood education in Britain at present is the role of parents.
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Interest is growing in several parts of the country in practitioner research in early childhood education and care.
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The same trends are evident in early childhood education .
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One such theme - and one of the most important - is the development of language and literacy in early childhood education .
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Just recently, she helped start an early childhood education program in two Washington housing projects.
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Before it is all forgotten, let us reclaim the recent history of early childhood education .
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The first aspect - the role of narrative in learning - is introduced through a study of literature in early childhood education .
experience
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Just how much is due to inherited characteristics, and how much to other biological factors or early childhood experiences is still uncertain.
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Jo Spence went on to explore her childhood experience in her own photographic work.
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The adverse childhood experiences therefore seemed to act in two ways.
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They argue that these men have suffered bad childhood experiences which have prevented their normal development.
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In fact Charles's childhood experiences confirmed him in his decision not to employ a nanny for his own children.
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What are the parents' childhood experiences ?
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Therapists vary in the importance they attach to background and childhood experiences of the parents.
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Our childhood experiences are very important.
friend
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He married his childhood friend Mary Maria, daughter of William Peck, moulder, in 1903.
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The only exception was among my childhood friends or old school classmates.
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Lenoir and Lehartel, childhood friends who attended different schools, were spending the day together.
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But after that he met up again with Olwen, a childhood friend .
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A childhood friend , Bob Jakin, who is now a packman, offers Tom and Maggie ten guineas he has earned.
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Some confessed, some made love, some slept exhausted and dreamed of childhood friends or long-forgotten moments with grandparents.
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Most live far from families and childhood friends .
home
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And so saying, he led me over the fields to his childhood home .
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For decades, townspeople thought his childhood home was a three-story rowhouse near the market square, now a porcelain shop.
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Most people have vivid memories of their first day at school and their childhood home .
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The true childhood home is roughly where the shuttered computer store stands, though the town has yet to acknowledge the mistake.
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Anxious to escape the limelight of dishonour, Cleave returns to live alone in his dilapidated childhood home .
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On the trip away from her childhood home , she let the maid get away with taking her golden drinking cup.
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Poor institutionalised Smike is taken by Nicholas and his sister to their childhood home in Devon.
leukaemia
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Subsequent studies have supported the hypothesis that population mixing can influence the incidence of childhood leukaemia .
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Introduction Evidence has mounted that the incidence of childhood leukaemia can be increased by population mixing, particularly in a rural area.
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In rural areas which had never before been exposed to the agent, an increase in childhood leukaemia cases resulted.
memory
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It is immediately noticeable that the great majority of comments come from the childhood memories .
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Patricia Polacco has won the hearts of millions of children with her rich stories drawn from childhood memories .
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InPart One the life stories are used only retrospectively, drawing on childhood memories of grandparents.
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But can I count as a reliable source my own childhood memories ?
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The line back to childhood memories is elastic.
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He summoned up childhood memories and a long love for a part of his musical heritage in a piece called Blues Suite.
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They all still had secrets to keep, but some childhood memories were shared and Marc Robichaux's were among them.
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It very nearly is us: as personal and as deeply embedded as childhood memories of Christmas or school terms.
mortality
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Fetal, infant and early childhood mortality and maternity related deaths to women of reproductive age are the classes of mortality examined.
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And these patterns determine, at least inpart, the viability of the offspring, infant and childhood mortality conditions and maternal health.
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The husband's educational level also influences early childhood mortality .
sweetheart
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She had a very traditional ambition: to marry her childhood sweetheart .
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That was it; she stormed out, left Paris immediately, returned to Blackpool and married her childhood sweetheart .
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I've got my childhood sweetheart at last.
years
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My father's death by Thomas Rocke Obviously the death of my father impacted greatly upon my childhood years .
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There is nothing developmental linking the middle childhood years with fountain pens and mismatched socks.
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And that meant a lot to me at the time because all the paintings I was doing were subjects from my childhood years .
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The white frame home in which Gumm spent her childhood years still stands on the south edge of town along Highway 169.
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But maybe the day will come when they will resent the loss of their childhood years .
■ VERB
lose
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All of the children had to contribute and to some extent we lost our childhood .
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Games are for childhood , and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young.
recall
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Perhaps such physical dependence is not unwelcome, recalling memories of childhood which are tender and warm.
remember
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I don't feel poor - not when I remember our childhood ! - but of course I am by her standards.
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When remembering childhood experiences, who recalls third-grade reading, after all?
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We all remember episodes from our childhood so plainly.
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If Fanshawe and I eventually had our differences, what I remember most about our childhood is the passion of our friendship.
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When the smell was pure oak, I remembered childhood woods; in fact one particular place in one particular wood.
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She remembers her early childhood in the village of Chakowa as idyllic.
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But then I remembered my own childhood and the crazes we all went through.
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I remember my childhood , my adolescence.
spend
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Unless some one had been prepared to take the risk, she might have spent her childhood in institutions.
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Scott spent his early childhood living with his parents in a one-room shack in a rural area outside of Tacoma.
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He spent his childhood in Lincoln and left school at 16 to join his father's jewellery shop.
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The white frame home in which Gumm spent her childhood years still stands on the south edge of town along Highway 169.
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She explained to us that she had spent her childhood in a village near Irkutsk.
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Flynn grew up in this country; he was born and spent his childhood right here in Rock Creek.
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As we drank our wine, Pumblechook reminded me of the happy times he and I had spent together during my childhood .
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In any case, I wanted to get a glimpse of the street on which I had spent my childhood .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sheltered life/childhood/upbringing etc
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I lead a sheltered life out in the branch.
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Listen honey, d' you think I lead a sheltered life?
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We led a sheltered life out there in the suburbs.
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What a sheltered life she leads, in her self-built lavender ghetto.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His early childhood was spent with his father in Chicago.
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It was his childhood dream to play professional baseball.
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Much of my early childhood was spent with my aunt in California.
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Nina had happy memories of her childhood on the farm.
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Of course, I had all the usual childhood illnesses, like measles and mumps.
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Since childhood Margot had longed to be a dancer.
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Steven had happy memories of his childhood on the farm.
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They've been buddies since childhood .
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Vince had a very unhappy childhood .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He says Ryan has been a tinkerer since childhood , endlessly curious about the way things work.
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Information on childhood history, family, peer and work experiences was obtained, as well as detailed information on current circumstances.
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It all comes from a good childhood .
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The adults had retreated from this childhood world, but not very far.
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The origins of Gironella's peculiar assemblages lie in his childhood .
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There were no differences in the rates of complications after delivery or in childhood behavior problems.