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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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different
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It is different on the continent .
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Readers of Rupert Murdoch's papers in different continents might read the same syndicated articles.
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Short-term contracts can mean only two or three years in one place before a new job on a different continent beckons.
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No work that properly considers developments in different countries and continents and pieces them together in a satisfying, narrative whole.
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Although the families of plants involved are ancient, they are represented in tropical rain forest to different extents in different continents .
entire
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The war there blights the entire continent .
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The advent of 1992 will demand a new breed of Euro-Christians who are embracing the entire continent in their strategic thinking.
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And in the United States, it was the Gilded Age that saw the new industrial economy engulf the entire continent .
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An accidental escape of a virus from a government laboratory may soon put paid to them over the entire continent .
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The entire continent is a theater of hunger and disease.
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The drought that struck the West in the late 1880s did not occlude the entire continent .
great
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It was sea and islands now; the great continent like Atlantis had slid under the waves.
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His achievements had already exceeded his highest hopes, and he anticipated equal if not greater success from the great continent .
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It happens that the break-up of the great southern continent of Gondwanaland began during the age of the dinosaurs.
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An evocation of and commentary on a great continent and its musics.
whole
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We discovered a whole new continent of music.
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The weather systems were monumental in extent, whole continents of air rushing madly out of Siberia.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the continent of Australasia
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a species, indeed, it may be in less danger than three other kites which also occur on this continent .
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Billions of dollars have been pumped into the continent .
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Clearly the object is no actual island or continent , nor a landscape of any kind.
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It is not, however, as clear-cut in this country as it is on the continent .
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The continents sit on shifting plates that form the outer crust of the Earth; and the oceans fill the spaces in between.
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The history of the continents has moved along a repeating loop of rifting, mountain building and then rifting again.
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They are mainly seen in pub gardens and street cafes on the continent to offer shade and add colour.
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This tremendous outpouring can still be found upon the continents on both sides of the break.