adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extended family
sb's extended family (= including not only parents and children, but also grandparents, aunts etc )
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She gets a lot of help from her extended family.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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A more extended example can be provided by the notion of alienation.
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Ethnicity is given more extended treatment in the following chapters.
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We will return to this problem of spacing in the following section, with a more extended discussion on consonance and dissonance.
■ NOUN
discussion
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The draft union treaty, after an extended discussion , was finally published in the central press in November 1990.
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An extended discussion of this kind of social analysis is in Chapters 5 and 6.
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We will return to this problem of spacing in the following section, with a more extended discussion on consonance and dissonance.
family
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No chance, they'd brought their bureaucratically extended families to stay.
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Different cultures have different attitudes to such obligations; for some it is merely an extension of an already extended family .
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And we can no longer rely on the extended family being dose at hand.
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The extended family of the Schlesingers kept in touch over the years.
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It was the typical extended family time with grandmother and other visiting relatives.
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Family life today is likely to be affected by the extended family.
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Members of Dorrance's extended family have indeed disagreed in public over whether or not the company should be sold.
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Extended families seldom live together in Britain, but the interaction between members of the extended family is likely to be important.
hand
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He removed the glasses on reaching the tarmac and he shook the Chief of Protocol's extended hand .
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An underside view of the extended hand of a bat showing the webbed fingers which make flight possible.
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Ybreska's extended hands embraced only empty air as Kirov moved back out of his reach, but it didn't matter.
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Graham rose to his feet and shook Laidlaw's extended hand .
memory
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If you have a 286 or 386 then you have to find a way of converting the natural extended memory to expanded.
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EMM386 emulates expanded memory , and smartdrv will run much faster in physical extended memory than it will in emulated expanded memory.
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Operating under Windows 3.0, LabQuest utilises the extended memory capability, multi-tasking and networking features of this graphic interface system.
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It will need a third-party memory manager to take advantage of expanded or extended memory.
period
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After an extended period of neglect the decorative arts in Rome are about to have new homes.
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It was noted above that for an extended period of our history crime was actually falling.
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Pulse arrival times have been recorded by Taylor and his colleagues over extended periods during the last 15 years.
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The company applies its techniques through workshops or residencies over extended periods of time in hospitals, community centres of special schools.
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Studying the body clock for extended periods of time Consider the following experimental design for a volunteer studied on his own.
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The intention is that over extended periods of time equivalent machines receive an equivalent amount of resource.
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Each section is relatively short, the idea being to avoid extended periods of continuous reading from the screen.
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Miller observed that penal institutions' can not sustain their decency over an extended period of time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the suicide letter also keeps a foot in the abstract world, the world of metaphysics in my extended sense.
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Description and decision are delayed until an extended visual search is completed.
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It is not suitable for extended use beyond three years, without modification and revision.
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Peake was not interested in a permanent move and Pool did not pursue the idea of an extended loan.