adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a definite/distinct advantage (= one that you can clearly notice )
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Electronic trading has a number of distinct advantages.
a distinct edge (= a definite or noticeable advantage )
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Being tall gives you a distinct edge in some sports.
a distinct possibility (= something that is quite likely )
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I knew there was a distinct possibility that I might fail my degree.
a distinct/marked/conspicuous lack of sth (= very noticeable )
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She looked at him with a marked lack of enthusiasm.
a distinct/separate category (= clearly different from others )
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Animals fall into distinct categories.
the distinct impression (= used when something seems very clear to you )
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We were left with the impression that the contract was ours if we wanted it.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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These two techniques of casting are regarded as distinct and having different geographical distributions.
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Entrepreneurial strategies - as distinct from their managerial implementation - centre on investment, marketing and the form of company organisation.
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These are seen as distinct stages of Third World exploitation associated with the growth of industrial capitalism in the west.
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No, mass-produced reproductions - as distinct from limited edition - prints seldom if ever rise in value.
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Dietary fibre is a substance obtained from plant foods, as distinct from animal foods.
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How different does it have to be to count as distinct ?
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These are more graphical presentations as distinct from verbal listings.
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Piaget allows two years for the development of sensorimotor intelligence as distinct from conceptual intelligence.
entirely
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An analogy with the film industry, or treatment as an entirely distinct medium requiring its own organization, was inappropriate.
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These two areas are not entirely distinct , but it may be useful to examine them separately.
less
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In fact, the lines of demarcation between the two camps were much less distinct .
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The gneisses are coarse grained and show much broader and less distinct foliation.
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A second, less distinct ring is visible further out.
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The track becomes less distinct and goes into birchwood and a beautiful glen.
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There are some signs that the three patterns are becoming less distinct .
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However, after 1918 feminist arguments became less and less distinct .
more
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The picture forming in his mind was clearer, more distinct , though he could scarce believe it.
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Financial policy, which deviated increasingly from monetarist orthodoxy, also pursued a more distinct course with Nigel Lawson as Chancellor.
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I prefer to toast it for a more distinct flavor.
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The murmur of the crowd became more distinct .
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Gradually I become aware that one voice is more distinct and more powerful than the rest.
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It was now thought that the roles of party and state would be more distinct .
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Although the ranges of the two dolphins correspond geographically, the feeding ecology of the two species is more distinct .
quite
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Bukharin's point was that the same methods can not be used to carry through these two quite distinct tasks.
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The two galleries have quite distinct personalities.
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It arises out of them but is quite distinct .
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Similarly, the ideology of socialism in its Marxist-Leninist form is quite distinct from its democratic socialist form.
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Even quite distinct groups share the same sorts of patterns.
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The atomic weight is a ratio quite distinct from the weight in grams.
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These two editions of the scheme are quite distinct .
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In one sense consumption and investment are quite distinct .
so
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The Offices so distinct , yet so conveniently communicating - Charmingly contrived!
very
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Her straight little black-clothed back looked very distinct and lonely in all that green and blue and sunlight.
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Everything became very distinct , in a way I remembered all too well.
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As the interviews progressed, a very distinct new picture of Diana surfaced from beneath the highly varnished image.
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If male-female separatism characterized the first decade of the new century, it was separatism of a very distinct flavor.
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Unlike the U.K., Ontario has the advantage of very distinct seasons.
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The sounds down on Boot Quay are very distinct: especially the rustling pods on the trees.
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The film is a very distinct dramatic medium.
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There are very distinct rudder trim changes as power is brought back and cruise established.
■ NOUN
advantage
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This has distinct advantages over using eye drops.
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But the mulattoes had one distinct advantage .
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The natural projection of the land along the Thames conferred distinct advantages on West Ham as a site for the new docks.
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Cities have a distinct advantage over school and special districts.
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There were distinct advantages for me in the relationship.
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Some designs have distinct advantages and so these should be considered before purchase.
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Such an approach has distinct advantages .
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For any kind of prolonged activity, warm-bloodedness would have been a distinct advantage .
area
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Its soils and drainage make it a quite distinct area , described on pages 46 and 47.
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Simple division Being able to divide a living/dining room into two distinct areas means you can easily create an intimate setting.
category
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Revisionist analyses of socio-economic trends in the countryside fall into two distinct categories .
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The enemy strategic assets will largely fall into three distinct categories .
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These functions fall into two wholly distinct categories .
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Not one person identifies fathers as a distinct category .
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Advertising structures the newspaper into distinct categories and sections.
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The two distinct categories are muddled in a manner that is difficult to separate analytically.
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They do not represent four predefined, distinct categories of user.
class
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The decision as to what to accept as a distinct class is quite arbitrary.
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Weights could be modified to cluster similar input patterns into distinct classes .
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For the class approach there can be more than two distinct class groups.
form
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It takes two distinct forms in different species.
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There are distinct forms , each with its own beautiful shade of brilliant emerald, sap, and yellowish green.
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And we know from micro-fossils that there were already several distinct forms of bacteria-like organisms as long ago as 3000 million years.
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Are they distinct forms of the verb or simply variants of a single verb form - the infinitive?
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The circle was used, and round churches, though rare, are a distinct form .
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In particular the two distinct forms of papillae on the jaw, open tentacle pores and small tentacle scales.
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Furthermore, class relations take distinct forms within societies.
group
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For both approaches, the fundamental feature of society is stratification-the unequal distribution of values across distinct groups .
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In the genus Echinodorus there are distinct groups of self-fertile and self-sterile species differing in the leaf petioles.
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During Spenser's time Ireland was inhabited by three distinct groups .
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The mods eventually split into two distinct groups .
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At least three distinct groups want a share of the scarce resource.
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Even quite distinct groups share the same sorts of patterns.
impression
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It gave the distinct impression , I noticed, of being Cortina-shaped.
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The boy had the distinct impression he was about to meet some one who would welcome his arrival.
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She got the distinct impression that Melissa wasn't best pleased to find that Luke had company.
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Once again she got the distinct impression that he didn't want to talk about the sculptor.
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Melissa had the distinct impression that he held Iris's chair for a fraction longer than her own.
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But I got a distinct impression he didn't want me to see what he was writing.
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The Alliance failed to make a distinct impression .
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The atmosphere in this dark room was oddly disquieting, giving him the distinct impression that he was not alone.
kind
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Dandelions are divided into thousands of distinct kinds , fitted to where they live and blended into an almost continuous series.
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The belt contains many distinct kinds of material, each arranged in a ring about the Sun with a preferred average distance.
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Clearly, children can not speak at birth, but Chomsky wishes to credit them with two distinct kinds of knowledge.
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The justifications of procedures of inquiry are of two distinct kinds .
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There is a vast number of these, and they fall into several distinct kinds .
lack
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Without much outright horsepower-a distinct lack of brawn-the Porsche should be driven with brains.
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There seems to be a distinct lack of aggression or passion.
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There were far fewer flags, a distinct lack of appetite for celebration.
phase
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The new format broke the process down into three distinct phases with different sets of lawmakers handling each.
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There are two distinct phases to Ramsay's career, and two accompanying styles.
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The Moon moves through three distinct phases .
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Good system development goes through two distinct phases .
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UDCs have been designated in two distinct phases .
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For Bukharin, the transition period encompassed two distinct phases .
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Each symbolises a distinct phase in the physical history of Lynn.
possibility
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Further revaluations remain a distinct possibility , despite a slight weakening of Sterling.
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Diversification was still a distinct possibility , but there seemed to be more enthusiasm for concentrating on the propane market.
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And Juliet's theory was growing into a distinct possibility .
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He said there is a distinct possibility the Coyotes will use the ice at Veterans Memorial Coliseum this season.
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To Gould, though, Lear's enterprise had distinct possibilities .
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The Riemann sphere still describes the array of physically distinct possibilities , but now only abstractly.
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If it goes on for another 2 weeks, that is a distinct possibility .
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And there is a distinct possibility that the tax break might go primarily to people already giving.
society
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He re-emerged in 1987 and 1991 to fight constitutional proposals to recognise Quebec as a distinct society .
species
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These large fish are called ferox, a distinct species of brown trout that make their living by eating their smaller brethren.
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By the mid-sixteenth century it had emerged as a distinct species of case involving four allegations.
stage
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These are seen as distinct stages of Third World exploitation associated with the growth of industrial capitalism in the west.
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The contrast arises because the two tasks reflect distinct stages of visual processing.
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It has three distinct stages of processing - bauxite mining, alumina refining and ingot smelting.
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Each hair goes through distinct stages of growth.
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This analysis produces six distinct stages , as follows.
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Those who work with bereaved people see mourning divided into four distinct stages .
type
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In general it was almost exclusively extreme right-wing elements who were first involved, but they tended to be of two distinct types .
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There are ten distinct types of glycogen storage diseases and all of them are rare.
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These two distinct types of lens source have always coexisted; it is the balance between they that has changed.
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In adults there seem to be two anatomically distinct types of stomach.
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In both window tracery and vaulting designs there are, despite many variations, two distinct types of pattern.
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Surprisingly, the origin of these two distinct types of stomach is unknown.
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The motivational system of a higher organism is complex, comprising several distinct types of mechanism expressed through differing behavioural means.
ways
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Handling Handling may be done in several distinct ways .
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There are three distinct ways of identifying an entry.
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Oxidation acts as a weathering process in two distinct ways .
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New issues of stock are now made in three distinct ways .
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However, Blank's categories differ in two distinct ways .
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This model in figure 13.8 suggests that being young affects attitudes towards breaking the law in two distinct ways .
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Rather, different regions have been affected in distinct ways .
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During the period of dominance he identifies three distinct ways through which psychodynamic theories had a major influence on social work.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a distinct advantage
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African and Asian elephants are distinct species.
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As night fell, the outline of the mountain became less distinct .
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I get the distinct impression that you don't like her very much.
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I have a distinct memory of my grandma sitting in the rocking chair, knitting.
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The European Union is made up of 15 nations with distinct cultural, linguistic and economic roots.
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The mammoth was related to, but distinct from, modern elephants.
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The sign's lettering was crisp and distinct .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But as recipes for body-building, they have a distinct Utility Function.
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Clearly distinct from the others were the two groups with the modern lacquers and the samples treated with preservative.
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Hardest to predict is whether an eventual movement for reform will adopt a distinct and more hopeful political and economic orientation.
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The cottage development acquired a distinct demographic identity, as well as a life-style of its own.
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The snow layer was thin and slightly sticky so the tracks were distinct rather than immediately filled in as made.
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There are two distinct phases to Ramsay's career, and two accompanying styles.
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There is often no distinct episode of illness with clear beginning and end points.
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There was certainly a distinct local advertising market available to support it.