noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
full professor/member/colonel etc
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Only full members have the right to vote.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
full
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McCormack himself was given a direct commission as a full colonel and entered active duty as deputy chief under Clarke.
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During that time I went from captain to full colonel .
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A squad of full colonels was halted near Billy.
■ NOUN
army
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They were army colonels in an economic army doing what their generals told them to do.
lieutenant
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One 12-year-old boy arrived, claiming to be a lieutenant colonel .
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She is a nice enough lady whose husband is a lieutenant colonel , U. S. Army, retired.
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He found the lieutenant colonel , although only touching fifty, almost impossibly grand.
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He landed at night, and was met at base ops by a lieutenant colonel .
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He had been a lieutenant colonel in public relations in Baltimore.
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Similarly, the army, when faced with a budget cut, never points the finger at desk-bound lieutenant colonels .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lieutenant colonel/general/Governor etc
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He found the lieutenant colonel, although only touching fifty, almost impossibly grand.
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He had been a lieutenant colonel in public relations in Baltimore.
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He landed at night, and was met at base ops by a lieutenant colonel.
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He retired, still a lieutenant general, in 1972.
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One 12-year-old boy arrived, claiming to be a lieutenant colonel.
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She is a nice enough lady whose husband is a lieutenant colonel, U. S. Army, retired.
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Short was a three-star lieutenant general commanding the Army in Hawaii.
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Three years as a legislative liaison, six years in the state senate, four tedious years as lieutenant governor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An elderly colonel with a steel gray crew cut stood to one side, ready to intervene if the questioning got difficult.
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At the end, Rakovsky opened a bottle of his favourite Scotch whisky and offered a drink to the young colonel .
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Back in his office he put through a call to the colonel .
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During that time I went from captain to full colonel .
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In 1623 he was deputy lieutenant in Cambridgeshire, and in 1625, a colonel of the Suffolk regiments defending the coasts.
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Similarly, the army, when faced with a budget cut, never points the finger at desk-bound lieutenant colonels.
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The ghosts of retired colonels haunt some of Torquay's menus.