COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be married with children (= to be married and have children )
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Kevin is married with four children.
children's home
delinquent girls/boys/children/teenagers
dependent children (= who you are still supporting financially )
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Do you have any dependent children ?
Deprived children
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Deprived children tend to do less well at school.
street children
Unaccompanied children
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Unaccompanied children are not allowed on the premises.
unsuitable for children
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The book is unsuitable for children .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gaggle of tourists/children etc
at-risk children/patients/groups etc
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First, that it detects the affected or at-risk groups, and second that these can then be referred for suitable treatment.
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Other potential strategies include the provision of vitamin A supplements to at-risk groups.
children should be seen and not heard
grown children/daughter/son
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I had two grown daughters, and when I lost the first one, this one became the apple of my eye.
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See more of his grown daughter and son.
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Seeing photographs of Rubilove Willcox Aiu in newspapers last Sunday was unexpected and bewildering for her grown children.
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Tall, slender and divorced, Sheila had-incredibly-two grown sons.
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The senator, 72, has a grown daughter by his former wife but is of grandfatherly vintage now.
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Yet her husband, laid off from his job as a messenger, and her grown children are unemployed.
leave a wife/children etc
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He leaves a wife and three children.
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Joel Gascoyne died in London 13 February 1705 leaving a wife, Elizabeth.
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Mr Fraser-Smith, who lived in Devon, leaves a wife and two children.
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Professor Brown, who was 47, leaves a wife Evelyn, also an Open University tutor and 3 children.
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The college also offers a creche for two to five-year-olds so that parents can leave children in safe hands.