I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cycle path (= for people riding bicycles )
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They should put a cycle path along the edge of each new road they build.
a walking/cycling/sightseeing etc tour
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a cycling tour of Cornwall
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We met on a coach tour in Italy.
clock cycle
cycle lane
cycle path
cycling shorts
life cycle
menstrual cycle
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the menstrual cycle
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
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Near Lake Como there is even an annual cycle race that visits the sites mentioned in the book.
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Each annual cycle entailed the repetition of well-tried methods which had to be taken in common.
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Limitations on virement ensure that the annual budgetary cycle becomes vitally important.
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Managers need to know about the annual financial cycle , the bureau budget and its management and local authority finance.
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Brandt switched the emphasis from geographical variation to the study of the annual cycle of plankton growth found in the northern oceans.
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Our information services will benefit from longer-term planning than the current annual estimating cycle .
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Thus even age measurements such as radioactive clocks that are independent of annual cycles need to be converted into years.
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The life cycle varies, but some species from temperate zones have an annual cycle.
complete
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Night and day are complementary parts of a complete cycle .
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However, most employers feel that the best training is obtained by working through one complete budget cycle .
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A complete excitation cycle consists of four steps, corresponding to excitation of each phase by each current polarity.
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A complete cycle of movement is drawn on the right of Fig. 10.1.
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While I have been away, it seems the place has been through a complete historical cycle .
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The period to be covered, 1974-89, encompasses two complete international economic cycles .
economic
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The period to be covered, 1974-89, encompasses two complete international economic cycles .
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Third, a market economy can experience major economic cycles .
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Markets produce unavoidable economic cycles of expansion and contraction. 4.
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The need is to consider the economic life cycle of each alternative in order to determine the optimal replacement.
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The gap in fortunes is not just a result of out-of-sync economic cycles .
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The index closely mirrored the economic cycle .
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At the present uncertain stage in the economic cycle , the commodity most urgently lacking is confidence.
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He referred, in particular, to the lack of synchronisation between the economic cycles of the two countries.
endless
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Thus the endless cycle of reform, repression and violent response may be about to enter a new phase.
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The lives of peasants are dictated by the arduous and endless cycle of their crops.
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Yet breaking the endless cycle of global poverty that powers these wars is achievable, Mr Annan says.
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Blaming quickiy becomes a dangerous and endless cycle that may escalate into acts of violence and crime.
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Hindus believe in an endless cycle of creation and destruction.
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Until recently her life had been an endless cycle of grinding poverty and growing hopelessness.
long
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Those of some larger mammals, for example hares and lynx, fluctuate in longer cycles of 10-13 years.
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For a number of years after 1865, a long humid cycle brought uninterrupted above-average rainfall to the plains.
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It is focused on pricing and delivering saying Unix software has outgrown the long sales cycle .
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These longer cycles may offer an antidote to the dis-ease created by the nanosecond culture.
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I still left Winston Street every morning for the long cycle ride through town and up the Banbury Road.
menstrual
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Also, the menstrual cycle of women can seriously disrupt fluid levels, causing in some cases increases of several pounds.
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Just knowing that one is participating in a study of the menstrual cycle can increase reports of negative symptoms by 80 percent.
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Sometimes a mood, or a phase of the menstrual cycle , will bring about a definite aversion to keeping up appearances.
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When women experience problems with their menstrual cycles , such as irregular periods, doctors often give them hormones.
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Her own menstrual cycle , including its uncomfortable drawing to a close, had been strictly her own affair.
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The study will continue until at least 50 premenopausal women with heart attacks and known menstrual-cycle history have been recruited.
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The mean menstrual cycle length was 28 days.
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But confusion reigned over the idea of the menstrual cycle .
natural
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The transfer took place during a natural cycle , and, to date, the pregnancy has gone smoothly.
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It was serious, but nothing that was necessarily unexplainable by the natural cycles of health and disease in such forests.
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Life is a natural cycle just like the changing seasons so youth must move to middle age and then proceed to death.
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Humans are born, and they die; all is part of the natural cycle of birth and death.
short
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Some projects may have a much shorter cycle .
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The 1990s will be an age of niche markets, intense competition, and extremely short product life cycles .
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Practices with less stable populations would have to run shorter cycles to achieve similar detection rates.
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Another requirement to respond to unanticipated change is a short production cycle .
vicious
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This vicious cycle is shown in Figure 5.2.
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In a vicious cycle , weight gain increases insulin resistance increases weight gain.
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Women with bulimia may also be ignorant of how their behaviour perpetuates their symptoms, creating a vicious cycle which traps them.
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When you become anxious about sleeplessness, you start a vicious cycle .
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A simplified version of the vicious cycle - at its worst - is shown in Figure 1.
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The problem evolves into a vicious cycle .
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If you make it a chore or a conflict you are already back on the vicious cycle .
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As more species of life are slowly added to the embryonic aquarium, the water becomes extremely sensitive to vicious cycles .
whole
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The whole cycle , from north to south to north, takes 18.61 years.
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The whole cycle is measured in days.
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Stage by stage, the whole complex life cycle of the parasite was worked out.
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And next year, the requests might double, with the whole dreary cycle restarting at an upped ante.
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The whole development cycle is streamlined when the programmer can visualise and monitor program execution.
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Eventually they will be used once more and the whole cycle will then have to be repeated.
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Robert half-expected the whole cycle to start again, so long had he waited for an answer to this question.
■ NOUN
business
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The business cycle is still there.
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Then we discuss some political problems including political business cycles .
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They took charge of their new positions at different stages in the business cycle .
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Actually, no matter what happens to the business cycle , people will continue to eat and to get sick.
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Theoretically, capitalism should not have business cycles at all.
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It really worries me what the impact could be in a few years when we hit the bottom of the business cycle .
cell
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Many differentiated cells retain the ability to return to the cell cycle when confronted with the appropriate mitogenic stimulus.
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Their third suggestion is that the cell cycle is important and may need to be controlled.
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These observations defined the structure of the cell cycle experiments, as carried out in January and February of 1995.
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This, then, is how the cell cycle in general seems to be controlled.
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Something else was important, too; and that something else was the cell cycle .
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In those days Lawrence and I had very little idea indeed of what the cell cycle actually is.
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Besides, even within cell biology, ideas on the cell cycle were still in the formative stages.
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For the cloning biologists of the 1980s, however, the cell cycle had to remain just an uncomfortable awareness.
election
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The reasoning is that legislators' lives revolve around the election cycles .
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Since 1946, the average swing per election cycle has been 24 seats.
fuel
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Alongside the other strategic arguments in its favour, the economics of the uranium fuel cycle had been taken for granted.
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Reprocessing is becoming an increasingly costly item in the fuel cycle of Britain's ageing Magnox reactors.
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The production of nuclear fuel was developed and other aspects of the fuel cycle investigated.
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One possible fusion fuel cycle involves D-He 3 reactions.
lane
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Providing more pelican crossings, cycle lanes and residents' parking schemes.
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Additionally, there are occasional examples of cycle lanes being carried in streets against the flow of one-way traffic systems.
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Encouraging local councils, assisted by a special budget we have set aside, to introduce pedestrian priority areas and cycle lanes .
life
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This balance changes throughout the life cycle .
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Those who invented new products would produce those products during the initial, high-profitability, high-wage, Stages of their life cycle .
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The need is to consider the economic life cycle of each alternative in order to determine the optimal replacement.
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Chapters 9 and 10 include model criteria for specific age-groups throughout the life cycle .
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Ostertagia ostertagi O. ostertagi has a direct life cycle .
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Fourteen days is the length of the life cycle from egg to larva to pupa to adult.
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Life cycles . Life cycles are adapted to low temperatures.
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Plant cover crops such as cereal rye to add organic matter and disrupt the life cycle of root knot nematodes.
motor
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He opened the throttle, blasting the motor cycle broadside into the culvert.
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He spoke to a motor cycle messenger who had once been a roadie for King Crimson.
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He dropped the gangplank over the stern and wheeled the motor cycle down.
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Many top speedway riders will be pitting their skills in the National motor cycle grass track meeting.
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He scrubbed out the map with his boot before remounting the motor cycle .
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We already have a car, motor cycle and bicycle lined up, but we need some one for the bus and train.
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Some of their multi-cylinder motor cycle engines have pistons little bigger than thimbles.
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When we came to Préfleur I asked Jean-Claude if he would teach me to drive the motor cycle .
path
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I am familiar with many routes on minor roads in the region, as well as the cycle paths built by organisations like Sustrans.
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Another bit of cycle path has just been constructed at Barnton on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
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First, where dense cycle flows coincide with motorised through traffic, separate cycle paths have been constructed.
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Make cycling safer and create more cycle paths .
ride
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A number of Farnham members rode in the Farnham to Winchester and back 53-mile reliability cycle ride.
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The sponsored cycle ride for Darnley Miners came and went.
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It may be just a gentle daily stroll or cycle ride or something much more strenuous.
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I still left Winston Street every morning for the long cycle ride through town and up the Banbury Road.
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A cycle ride , walk or swim at least three times a week will boost your circulation and help maintain a healthy bloom.
route
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Use of quieter, cleaner lorries and the development of cycle routes will be encouraged.
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The principal conclusion was that in urban areas single cycle routes do not have a clear large-scale effect.
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They also want to integrate access with public transport and cycle routes .
time
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In addition to using good teamwork, they demanded team performance against specific goals ranging from cycle time reduction to skit preparation.
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It now appears that radioactive heating would be less important than conductive heating from the core, allowing a faster cycle time .
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We also eliminated other steps and streamlined those that remained to cut cycle times radically.
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Class etal. have also concluded that the cycle time is short.
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Average cycle time design cycle ranges from around 22 to 30 weeks depending on the nature of the array.
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The intervals are predetermined by the elements of a motor task or more simply by the target cycle time of a task.
tour
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A 12 mile cycle tour starting from Hawkhope to the Holt, returning via the pub at Falstone.
track
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Many of the cycle tracks are available for use jointly with pedestrians.
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Within Edinburgh three quarters of accidents happen at road junctions so take special care when travelling to or from this cycle track .
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Cyclists, this special cycle track will help you make your journey safer.
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Volunteers from Cheltenham Cycle Campaign are putting recycled tarmac on to a path cleared from brambles to make a cycle track .
trade
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How can this aspect of the trade cycle be explained?
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The implication was that balance would be achieved over the trade cycle .
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The notion that spending and taxation would be balanced over some notional trade cycle was never realistic politics.
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The phases of a trade cycle .
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It explains the observed rises in the apc when income falls over the period of a trade cycle .
■ VERB
break
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If this is the case a two-day fast on fruit juice and water will break the cycle .
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Rosie was determined to break out of the cycle of poverty that had trapped so many migrant workers.
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Yet breaking the endless cycle of global poverty that powers these wars is achievable, Mr Annan says.
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Only by sharing parenting, she wrote, could we break the cycle .
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For many teachers a business secondment breaks their personal career cycle of school, university to school.
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Therapists also teach couples new ways of speaking and listening, to break the blame cycle .
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Whitelegg said that any less severe measures would fail to break the cycle of dependence on road transport and consequent congestion.
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Going into mid-1993, the company had yet to break this cycle .
follow
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Haslam believes this experience taught him the need to recognise that many products follow a predictable life cycle .
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The year follows a cycle not unlike a Gardener's Calendar.
repeat
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C1 now discharges and repeats the cycle .
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Rather than just evolving in a gradual, uniform manner, the earth may actually be caught up in a repeating cycle .
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If any corrections or additions are needed, go back to step 1 and repeat the cycle .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a song cycle about spring
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This washing machine has a 28-minute cycle .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fortunate grounding and optimistic cleansing which a cycle of this sort provides.
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Bicycling: Hire a cycle from the central sports shop which is open every day except Sunday.
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Blood vessels normally grow during the menstrual cycle , embryonic development and wound healing.
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Food symbolises many things in this film, but the recurring image is of a cycle of fleshly decay fuelled by appetite.
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For technical reasons spatial frequency is expressed in cycles per degree rather than cycles per centimetre.
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Fourteen days is the length of the life cycle from egg to larva to pupa to adult.
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The pun fits all sorts of natural and unnatural phenomena, from lunar cycles to a nostalgic yearning to see Elvis again.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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The dark red Seneca changed profile as the undercarriage cycled down .
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Each time, after three or four up-and-\#down cycles , she begins to use her other hand.
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He cycled down the track to a junction a mile further on.
home
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He had to cycle home unwashed as no washing facilities were provided at work.
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This time a thirty-year-old schoolteacher cycling home to Hunstanton who had a puncture on a lonely stretch of road.
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He was run down as he cycled home from the shops.
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Now watch him cycle home in the rain.
up
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Gradually the haze and sweat cleared from their eyes and they focussed over the open valley they had cycled up from.
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Try cycling up and down like this for about an hour.
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They exchanged brief greetings but one day he was walking slowly past the end of Magdalen Street as she cycled up .
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She took up cycling as part of her rehabilitation.
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If you have any doubts on health grounds about taking up cycling , talk to your doctor and ask his advice.
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To the eight children who cycle up and down the central corridor, the lifestyle has a definite appeal.
■ NOUN
life
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As each culture neared the end of its organic life cycle the creative stage was finished and the atrophying civilization stage began.
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In its life cycle the parasite exists in two forms or stages: cysts and trophozoites.
mile
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He left the family car in the garage and cycled 12 miles to a supermarket to save 50p on groceries.
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For nine years she was a postwoman in Berkshire and used to cycle 18 miles a day.
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Despite owning a D-reg Montego, he cycled 12 miles to a supermarket in nearby Carterton to save 50p on family groceries.
■ VERB
walk
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But how do you get them to live within walking , cycling or tram-ride distance of work?
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I will walk , cycle or use public transport whenever possible.
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She's had to walk and cycle to work.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cycling isn't only good for the environment - it's a great form of exercise too.
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I run, cycle , or walk at least three times a week.
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I usually cycle through the park to get to school.
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It took about 20 minutes for her to cycle the 5 miles to her home.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Brenda cycled along the lane towards Stowbridge that morning to meet Daddy in his new van.
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No matter how good things are, we cycle into difficult times.
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The parents who buy these bikes should take their offspring to the park to cycle .