noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sad ending
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The film has a sad ending.
a verb ending (= the end part of a verb, which changes to show tense or person )
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"-ed" is a regular past tense verb ending.
fairytale ending
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The kiss was a fairytale ending to the evening.
happy ending
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The story has a happy ending , however.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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There would be a different ending to Jenny's story if ... if ... no!
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But for a young casual Tote employee the incident had a different ending .
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Imagine, for a moment, a rather different ending to my experience.
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They want a finish to the feud ... and a different ending .
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For example, you choose a narrative, then imagine a different ending for it, and think what implications this would have.
fiscal
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In the fiscal year ending in March 1990, the debt-equity ratio for TSE-listed firms was only 1.07.
happy
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Thankfully, the story had a happy ending .
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These beautiful new books, filled with morals and happy endings , help us hold on to our storytelling heritage.
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Neighbours projects being honest and everything has a happy ending .
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The pursuit of miracles, the rapture of happy endings .
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But there was never a chance of a happy ending for Princess Diana and Charles.
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Telling children about scary things, and then showing them that there are happy endings , soothes their anxieties.
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The Hector's story may have a happy ending , as the establishment of entanglement.
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We all have this thing about happy endings .
perfect
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It was a lovely night and a perfect ending for our trip.
■ NOUN
nerve
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This absence of feeling, I dismissed as damaged nerve endings .
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Your nerve endings bristle at the slightest movement.
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Neurotransmitters are chemicals that are released at nerve endings and control the signals between nerves and nerves and muscles.
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Slightly less obvious but essential to the winding up of the nerve endings is Michael Carr's neglect of his wife.
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There is no evidence that the nerve endings near the brain of the fish can transmit pain.
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So he hopes to come up with a special X-ray stain binding to human nerve endings .
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A cell's true nature is realized when it becomes skin or bone or nerve ending .
week
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During the week ending last Tuesday 109 people in every 100,000 of the population had flu, and 154 had flu-like illnesses.
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The batch screen options could be displayed by entering a week ending date.
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He was released into the hands of Zaïrean officials in the week ending March 3.
year
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In its last financial year ending December 1988, Pearl reported pre-tax profits of £66.2m compared with £48.34m a year earlier.
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An interim dividend of 6p per ordinary share was paid on 1 April 1993 in respect of the year ending 31 December 1993.
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Copies of the most recent report for the year ending 31 March are in the Library.
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Group pre-tax profits for the year ending February 28 fell 12.5% to £1.2m.
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Figures released today reported that in the year ending March 31 profits before tax were £10.3m compared with £7.7m in 1992.
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Pre-tax profits for the year ending October 31 rose 14.9% to £3.2m, while turnover increased 40.6% to £17.9m.
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In the year ending March 1991 provisional estimates are 204 thousand such births or 28.7% of total births.
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Government revenues for the financial year ending in November 1991 had shown a considerable reduction compared with the previous financial year.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
storybook ending/romance etc
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Well, so much for a storybook ending.
the year/week etc ending sth
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An interim dividend of 6p per ordinary share was paid on 1 April 1993 in respect of the year ending 31 December 1993.
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Copies of the most recent report for the year ending 31 March are in the Library.
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During the week ending last Tuesday 109 people in every 100,000 of the population had flu, and 154 had flu-like illnesses.
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Figures released today reported that in the year ending March 31 profits before tax were £10.3m compared with £7.7m in 1992.
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Group pre-tax profits for the year ending February 28 fell 12.5% to £1.2m.
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The bad-debt provisions are expected to knock £25m off profits for the year ending February.
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The company is aiming to break even at the pretax level in the year ending March 31.
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The company said it expects revenue of about $ 34. 5 million for the year ending June 30, 1996.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gerunds have the ending "-ing."
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I love those old Hollywood movies with happy endings.
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In the Spanish version of this story, the ending is completely different.
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The story has a happy ending .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Go back to Part Three, which was supposed to provide the original ending .
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Thankfully, the story had a happy ending .
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The ending we gave above, ... because she had seen what had happened, makes she refer to Diane.
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The background to this was the ending of the cycle boom in the previous year.
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Try perhaps to write a happy ending for this world and the people in it.