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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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amount
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Carers expended a tremendous amount of time and energy in this role.
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Getting Up From a Chair Most people expend tremendous amounts of energy when performing this simple activity.
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Attempts to reconcile these two decisions have expanded human ingenuity and expended an unconscionable amount of time, effort and paper.
effort
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Therefore such burrows give you a greater return for the effort expended .
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Program evaluation is concerned specifically with determining the worth or values of efforts expended to achieve a given purpose or objective.
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It's just a pity that all that effort you expended was wasted really.
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No matter how much effort was expended , all intention was governed by the second law of thermodynamics.
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Motivation is therefore a causal relationship between effort expended , the performance attained and the reward related to the performance.
energy
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Recovering from the energy expended , Stephane appreciated my translated comparison with the guidebook description of Curbar's Right Eliminate.
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To liquefy them for storage in propellant tanks, a considerable amount of electrical energy must be expended to run refrigeration equipment.
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If we consume more energy than we expend , the surplus is stored as fat.
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To date, a lot of energy has been expended but successes have been limited.
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As more time and energy is expended there is more exposure to critical evaluation.
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Guilt also plays a part in the energy expended .
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You know the kind of energy you have to expend to be that?
money
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Rather the focus was again upon expending the money more judiciously.
sum
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Rather than expending vast sums on political posturing, we may in-stead choose to invest in potentially profitable space enterprises.
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Plunging in with both feet and expending large sums on equipment and delicate fishes will almost always result in failure and disappointment.
time
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The husband can feel abandoned, and expend more of his time and energy in his work.
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Now, I expend considerable time and thought on recruiting and interviewing.
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Few commanders would have wished to expend the time and energy required to overcome places so heavily defended.
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The best way to create solid structure without expending extra editing time is through the fast and simple process of listing.
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Users and manufacturers have expended a lot of time and effort trying to find ways to improve computer security.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Carrying small weights increases the calories you expend when walking for fitness.
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The final result hardly justifies the amount of time and energy that has been expended.
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We expend a lot of effort every day upon quite pointless activities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As regions specialize and expend production, they can lower their average costs.
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If we consume more energy than we expend , the surplus is stored as fat.
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It can't afford to expend too much energy on a prey it's not certain of catching.
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Recovering from the energy expended, Stephane appreciated my translated comparison with the guidebook description of Curbar's Right Eliminate.
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Some expend tremendous energy desperately trying to stop the clock.
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To liquefy them for storage in propellant tanks, a considerable amount of electrical energy must be expended to run refrigeration equipment.
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To lose weight really effectively, you need to eat fewer calories than you expend each day and increase your activity level.