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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
fall
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But it fell into disrepair earlier this century when the water dried up.
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Many of the apartment buildings fell into disrepair from the 1950s on, some so badly that the city demolished them.
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The craft was used to service and repair seaplanes in the nineteen thirties, but fell into disrepair .
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By the time Derek Dashwood first saw it as a young boy in 1952, it was falling into disrepair .
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Buildings clearly fell gradually into disrepair , while the fourth-century mausoleum points to a shift in emphasis in at least one area.
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The missions quickly fell into disrepair .
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The seed for some was sown while doing voluntary repair work on church buildings which had fallen into disrepair .
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The innovation brought only mixed success, and the small telescope has now fallen into disrepair .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it fell into disrepair earlier this century when the water dried up.
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Half of its vehicles were in disrepair without replacement parts.
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I do not know which was the one whose state of disrepair forced the closure.
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It loomed over the Angara River like a great rectangular tombstone, moldering toward oblivion in stunning disrepair .
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Many of the apartment buildings fell into disrepair from the 1950s on, some so badly that the city demolished them.
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She had heard enough from the Julians to recognise in the disrepair something of the troubles of the Dersinghams.
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There was no evidence, however, that older material was necessarily in a greater state of disrepair than more modern publications.