adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extremely comprehensive
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The instruction manual is extremely comprehensive.
extremely nervous
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The policeman noticed that the driver seemed extremely nervous.
extremely poor
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His parents were extremely poor.
extremely popular
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The restaurant is extremely popular, owing to its high standard of food.
extremely rich
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He came from an extremely rich Viennese family.
extremely unlikely
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The government is extremely unlikely to change its policy.
extremely unpopular
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The changes to the National Health System were extremely unpopular with doctors.
extremely unusual
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We’ve not had any snow yet, which is extremely unusual.
extremely/deeply/eternally etc grateful
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I am extremely grateful for the assistance your staff have provided.
extremely/exceedingly/incredibly lucky (= very lucky )
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Police say it was extremely lucky that no one was killed.
extremely/grossly unfair
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The system was extremely unfair.
extremely/highly effective
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The company launched a highly effective advertising campaign.
extremely/highly efficient
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The factory is modern and highly efficient.
extremely/highly/fairly etc flexible
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Our new computer software is extremely flexible.
extremely/immensely relieved
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We're all immensely relieved that the ordeal is over.
richly/extremely/widely etc varied
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A good teacher is aware of the extremely varied needs of each student.
very/extremely expensive
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We ate at a very expensive restaurant.
very/extremely violent
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an extremely violent attack
very/extremely/immensely/fabulously etc wealthy
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He left as a poor, working class boy and returned as a wealthy man.
very/extremely/immensely/highly etc complicated
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Mental illness is a very complicated subject.
very/extremely/incredibly simple
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I came up with a very simple answer to this problem.
very/extremely/quite/pretty etc clever
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Lucy is quite clever and does well at school.
very/highly/extremely competent
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She’s a highly competent linguist.
very/highly/extremely likely
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It did not seem very likely that he was still alive.
very/highly/extremely suggestible
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At that age, kids are highly suggestible.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
attractive
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She was also by all accounts extremely attractive .
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Water is extremely attractive as a source of both propellants and life-support materials.
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However, she gives warning that this can still be misleading, especially if the interest includes an extremely attractive bonus.
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On the positive side, McCain, his wife, Cindy, and his children make an extremely attractive family.
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He was extremely attractive , with thick hair and clear eyes and a scattering of freckles.
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This species is extremely attractive but suitable only for large tanks where the leaves coil decoratively under water.
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Comments: An extremely attractive , hardy, easy-to-grow species.
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The price of just £129.95 makes it extremely attractive .
complex
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Most of the difficulty stems from the fact that an eruption is an extremely complex phenomenon.
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But on Macintosh it becomes extremely complex .
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Technicality Libel law has been allowed to become extremely complex .
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A tester can have no confidence that unexamined values in extremely complex systems will perform continuously with examined values.
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A simple five-figure number might conceal extremely complex chemistry.
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Any mind capable of designing such an intricately structured universe as this would have to be extremely complex .
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The process of sense selection is, of course, extremely complex , with many interacting factors.
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From what we have said so far, you will conclude correctly that the task of the news director is extremely complex .
dangerous
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A girl imbued with such qualities would be very special and extremely dangerous .
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When it is acquired this way, it can be extremely dangerous .
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It was potentially extremely dangerous and although it had survived since the war it may have been very unstable.
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He is armed with a large-caliber pistol and considered extremely dangerous .
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In theory, the whole island could be live and extremely dangerous .
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A psychiatric report showed he was extremely dangerous , particularly to anyone with whom he formed a relationship.
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Unfortunately, it can be extremely dangerous - unless you're careful.
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These are concepts which are not exactly weak, but they lack substance; they are words and words are extremely dangerous .
difficult
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However, a quantification of this factor in numbers of volumes or in cost is extremely difficult to achieve.
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These issues are extremely difficult to get at, however.
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Indeed, it is extremely difficult to distinguish between the primary visual cortex and surrounding areas in this species.
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The attainment of reversible operations is extremely difficult for a child.
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When we find this extremely difficult , there are a few things we can do to make it easier.
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It forces real interest rates into the stratosphere and makes rapid growth extremely difficult .
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Now, sometimes it is extremely difficult to kill a man.
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Building a reputation is extremely difficult unless you have a famous name coming from a famous relative.
effective
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It has proved extremely effective over the past few years.
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These steroids are extremely effective and keep you alive.
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In contrast simple probabilistic models have been extremely effective in some speech and language tasks.
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If men closed further, accuracy became less important, and powerful grenades became extremely effective .
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It would not cost the Government money, would have the support of fishermen and would be extremely effective in terms of conservation.
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They are fast acting and extremely effective as products and will rapidly remove grease and other organic films using spray-wipe techniques.
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This combination of wet heat and time is extremely effective for disinfection.
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Many word-games already used in classrooms are extremely effective on the computer.
expensive
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Pattern making is a highly skilled occupation and patterns can be extremely expensive to produce.
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Privatizing to a monopoly is not only senseless but extremely expensive .
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For example selective computed tomography could be performed instead of whole body scans, which are extremely expensive .
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As for radon, Rudy said looking for radon in drinking water would be extremely expensive and might not help public health.
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It is an extremely expensive process that, left unchecked, will go on for ever.
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It was a formidable and extremely expensive task.
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Reprocessing is a highly technically demanding and extremely expensive operation, involving the extraction of uranium and plutonium from the spent fuel.
flexible
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Because the process is extremely flexible , customers no longer need to buy a minimum of one tonne of alloy.
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This extremely flexible system allows the hotel to tailor service preferences for each guest.
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To work like that you needed an extremely flexible team of actors and technicians, didn't you?
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One of the great joys of forum theatre is that it is extremely flexible .
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It is, for example, extremely flexible .
good
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Small suckers were in better supply with demand extremely good from £19.70 to £24.10 each.
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His main asset is he has extremely good ability to accelerate very early.
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The pile wood, however, is usually of extremely good quality.
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He looked extremely good this morning in his blue silk suit and splashy colorful hand-painted tie.
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They were an extremely good fit and required a long drift to remove them.
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We are extremely good stewards of the land that we have.
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When that first romance ended she was extremely good as I nearly dipped out of the course.
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The shares are extremely good value for investors, short of a stock market apocalypse.
grateful
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Giles was extremely grateful for this: he hated to trouble his friend.
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Needless to say, the result is an extremely grateful patient.
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Alfred was suddenly extremely grateful that none of his colleagues knew of Beatrice Throgmorton's place in his life.
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Smokers have adapted and accepted the new rules, and non-smokers are extremely grateful .
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She was extremely grateful and the course saw out the war in this fashion the camp never materialising.
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She's now officially in remission and extremely grateful to the doctors who've helped her.
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At 26 he was the youngest and he was extremely grateful to have been given the chance to row with the best.
hard
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You could put them in the fridge, but many like a fluctuating temperature which would be extremely hard to simulate!
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If this impact had occurred in deep water its traces on the ocean floor might be extremely hard to recognize.
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The work is extremely hard and conductors need to be very dedicated.
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Lucy works extremely hard at keeping her children clean and healthy and at encouraging their development.
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In some waters they are extremely hard to catch, in others the are ridiculously easy.
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We all worked extremely hard in the next few days, cleaning all the rooms and preparing the food.
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It is clear that over the past year everyone in has worked extremely hard and for long hours.
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Lewis worked extremely hard at preparing this part of the course for his pupils.
helpful
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We checked in to the bright, airy Parkhotel Den Haag, where the staff were extremely helpful and pleasant.
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Anyway, it is extremely helpful in a young career because it leaves you fearless.
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Their comments have been extremely helpful .
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I explained to them that the information could be extremely helpful during the board meeting.
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Tables subdivided into Faults/Reasons/Remedies can be extremely helpful .
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My hon. Friend's comment is extremely helpful .
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However, it would be extremely helpful if those officers were medically trained.
high
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The music often lies extremely high , but Nicholas Clapton had no difficulty with the tessitura, and displayed remarkable breath control.
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Another class has extremely high reflectivity with absolutely no evidence of absorption of light by ferrous iron.
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Virtually all empty dwellings were now sold with vacant possession, at extremely high prices.
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Return on equity is extremely high , but this is due mainly to the extremely high debt position of Technosystems.
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For example, the temperatures in the holds of ships passing through the tropics may be extremely high .
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Return on equity is extremely high , but this is due mainly to the extremely high debt position of Technosystems.
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The weather was ideal and the quality of rugby was extremely high .
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The collisions generated extremely high temperatures and pressures.
important
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In painting and music, especially, this kind of patronage was extremely important and lasted for many centuries.
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A: It is extremely important .
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The mining part of the community that I represent is extremely important , even though only one working pit is left.
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Two-thirds of those questioned said that jacket copy is either extremely important or very important to them.
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Mr. Smith My hon. Friend has identified an extremely important point.
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Hygiene is extremely important at all times.
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One extremely important balance sheet relationship is that of current assets to current liabilities.
large
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Building it in is hard because the amount of knowledge which is potentially relevant to decoding each pronoun, is extremely large .
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For extremely large programs, zero is 0. 001, and falling.
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Relatively little detail was actually available from the recalls and the between subjects variability was extremely large .
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Through the securities market, corporations can pool the financial resources of extremely large numbers of people.
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Individual cannon can be extremely large , and the Empire's Great Cannon are amongst the largest.
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The egg needs to be extremely large because it contains the nourishment required to produce a most precocious chick.
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A very distant object has to be extremely large to produce an image of appreciable size.
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However, one really does not need extremely large amounts of space to grow the flowers needed for this very enjoyable hobby.
low
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This is the major reason for the extremely low cost of the country's gasifiers.
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Now new infections had to drop to extremely low levels or even temporarily cease altogether.
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He felt the odds on anyone surviving such an explosion were extremely low .
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That is simply because digitized Output can move from continent to continent at extremely low cost.
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Local authorities have lost important development-control powers and have had to release land to UDCs at extremely low prices.
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At the same time, the number of infants killed in commercial air crashes is extremely low .
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Plans to lease timber rights from indigenous peoples for extremely low prices were also criticised.
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Activator and quencher ions may produce their effects at extremely low concentrations, below the detection limits of the electron microprobe.
painful
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That would make it extremely painful to have gone short of sterling in the past few days.
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A sting from one of these results in an extremely painful wound.
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Her left arm was locked to her side, because her shoulder was extremely painful .
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But it is also extremely painful .
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At this stage, the arthritis in his fingers was scarcely bearable and writing extremely painful .
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This was an extremely painful time for the patients.
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Although their bite is extremely painful to man, they are not aggressive and most people are bitten while handling them.
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My eyebrows badly need plucking but I find it extremely painful .
poor
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For a very large female patient, or one who has extremely poor balance, a wraparound skirt may be more practical.
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The vehicles and major items of equipment of all sorts arrived in extremely poor condition.
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The rural areas contained 34 percent of poor families and 19 percent of extremely poor families.
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Unfortunately, the prospects for progress beyond an apparent willingness to agree to share responsibility for Hebron are extremely poor .
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If gamma shares are not liquid and tradeable, then pricing efficiency will be extremely poor .
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Despite all of the highfalutin gadgets, intelligence for the most part was extremely poor .
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Unfortunately, governments, aid agencies and the United Nations have an extremely poor record of being able to organise anything.
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Her memory is extremely poor and she can not sustain a normal conversation.
popular
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During the 1993/94 programme we shall continue the series of afternoon events which have proved extremely popular .
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Cruises, foreign vacation or job experiences, glamorous career situations, and other such settings are extremely popular .
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Nevertheless, these works were extremely popular in their day and are still excellent examples of pure terror and suspense.
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Health and fitness, in particular, have proved extremely popular and the clubs gymnasia are experiencing increased usage.
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It's extremely popular , so book ahead.
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The Select-A-Play system has been extremely popular since being instituted last season.
powerful
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Here Kasparov should have sealed 41 c8 when the threats of g3 and g4 would be extremely powerful .
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But soon after lunar sunrise, it emitted an extremely powerful blast of radio energy.
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Peppermint, for example, is extremely powerful , whereas sandalwood is very mild.
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Since smiling is an extremely powerful reinforcer, this visual interaction is important in bringing about the closeness of parent and child.
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His key evolutionary innovation was separating the heating chamber from the cooling chamber; this made his engine extremely powerful .
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Britain's negotiating position is thus extremely powerful .
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Yet such desires are extremely powerful , and for most people-especially non-philosophers-quite hard to control.
rare
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In some species, only females appear to exist - males are either extremely rare or non-existent.
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This is an extremely rare condition, the cause of which is not known.
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Fossil flowers are extremely rare because of their delicacy and because they are shortlived.
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But such moves have been extremely rare .
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But such an occurrence of anger was extremely rare .
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Primary pulmonary hypertension is extremely rare , afflicting about 1, 500 people in the United States.
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The execution of juvenile offenders is extremely rare and at least 72 countries set 18 as the minimum age for the death penalty.
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However, end-stage renal failure caused by chronic hypokalemia is extremely rare in humans.
sensitive
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It goes without saying that any infringements of these new restrictions will imperil what is already an extremely sensitive access agreement.
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The Arizona players are extremely sensitive on the talent-gap issue, especially when reminded of it by Tucson columnist Greg Hansen.
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Earthworms have extremely sensitive skins and can not thrive under acid conditions.
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This is a little girl who is extremely sensitive to touch; she feels fragile, thin-skinned, easily breakable herself.
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All osmotic pressure measurements are extremely sensitive to temperature and must be carried out under rigorously controlled temperature conditions.
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As more species of life are slowly added to the embryonic aquarium, the water becomes extremely sensitive to vicious cycles.
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It was an extremely sensitive matter, they were told.
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It was, moreover, an accusation to which its adherents in the Royal Society were extremely sensitive .
serious
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Nevertheless, if our assessments of these likelihoods are incorrect, the implications would be extremely serious .
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That is an extremely serious problem which is leading to a number of stud owners moving their horses abroad.
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He is extremely serious , speaks slowly-almost grinding to a complete halt at times-and is not exactly the happy optimist.
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That is a pathetic response to the size of the problem, which is extremely serious in my area.
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And to miss 106 depression in a person is extremely serious , because with depression can come the risk of suicide.
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The upset and damage which has been caused to us by these articles is an extremely serious matter.
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Middlesbrough Council housing chairman Bob Brady said the Government was failing to address an extremely serious problem.
simple
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It is extremely simple to make - just warmed jam with a little water.
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There are extremely simple ones: Pick a team out of a hat.
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It does, however, allow complete interactive applications to be created using an extremely simple and easily mastered command set.
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An extremely simple algorithm which does this runs thus.
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Deck gear and rig controls are extremely simple with the minimum of winches.
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The controls are also extremely simple .
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The Flydaway is an extremely simple concept.
small
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He also said Hannah who was born 8 weeks early was an extremely small , scrawny baby.
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He said the panel reported the risk from eating beef or beef products was likely to be extremely small .
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Finally, the vastness of space makes the probability of such a close approach of two stars extremely small .
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As it was, the extremely small head of some dinosaurs no doubt reduced the dangers of falling from a great height.
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Goldin has previously speculated about the possibility of interstellar flight using extremely small , low-mass probes.
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Their neurotoxin produces effects similar to those seen in snakebite victims, although the number of deaths from lizard-bites is extremely small .
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These are extremely small , single-cell structures that somewhat resemble bacteria on Earth.
successful
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This model has been extremely successful in enabling us to understand acquired dyslexia.
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Bob was extremely successful in his real estate venture.
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Some extremely successful placements have been made in council day centres.
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Other students, while constantly feeling the pressure of hostility and homophobia, have been none the less extremely successful during their college years.
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For example, there are dozens of varieties of artemisia which are extremely successful in the press.
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These were extremely successful for several reasons.
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We have already seen the planning of the Feminist Art Criticism conference which was an extremely successful and well-attended event.
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There was an extremely successful one in Tennessee this month.
unlikely
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It was also aware that a further renewal of the Carnegie Trust's grant was extremely unlikely .
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Continued presentation of the scenes within the pairing phase is extremely unlikely to result in an unconditioned response.
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However the constraints are such that without new legislation it is extremely unlikely that this is an option open to the Catholic sector.
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But it is extremely unlikely that any answer will be received.
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However, transplantations of a head from one body to another are extremely unlikely .
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You are extremely unlikely to eat this amount - some 9000 calories - in one day.
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But that Parliament has not met since 1706 and is extremely unlikely ever to meet again.
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It is extremely unlikely that if the House of Lords did not exist it would be invented in its present form.
useful
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Information from these initial trials will be extremely useful to the designers.
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With more detailed information, this can be an extremely useful feature.
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That was extremely useful to us.
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These techniques aren t as complicated as they may sound, and they can be extremely useful .
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Morphine and its related narcotics have proved extremely useful in their ability to control pain.
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Infantry officer Thomas Giltner also found C4 extremely useful .
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This can be extremely useful for overviews of a thin section, grain shape and size determinations and for fabric analysis.
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One extremely useful diagnostic technique is classroom observation by psychologists and / or educators familiar with the disorder.
valuable
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Quiet introspection can be extremely valuable , especially for people who lead busy, hectic lives and spend little time alone.
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After all, tangents are extremely valuable for your writing.
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The information gathered was extremely valuable and the discussions frank and positive.
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The nurses' guidance in how to hold, dress, and feed infants can be extremely valuable .
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This facility for associations which are neither obvious nor apparently logical is extremely valuable in creative thinking and problem solving.
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It therefore should be stated quite firmly that televised presidential debates are extremely valuable .
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Given all these factors, reminiscence should be an extremely valuable counselling aid.
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Security of this kind is extremely valuable in an open network like the Internet.
vulnerable
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She believed the department had left itself extremely vulnerable in acting without any form of approval by the committee.
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It must be real or it damages the process and a person in the extremely vulnerable Dying Time.
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She felt absolutely helpless and extremely vulnerable standing completely unclothed under his watchful eyes.
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The immune system withers under the viral attack, leaving the body extremely vulnerable to other painful and life-threatening diseases.
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The other crab, rather than being left homeless and therefore extremely vulnerable to predators, instantly jumped into the broken shell.
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She felt extremely vulnerable at the side of this powerful man.
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And once in range, without hands to protect yourself, you are extremely vulnerable .
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As I said, whoever has grabbed you is extremely vulnerable .
wealthy
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He had left as a poor, working class boy and returned as an extremely wealthy man.
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Mention the average client rather than an extremely wealthy one-unless you helped him or her get that way.
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They went to Cartier's in the Landmark, the black and gold shopping mall for the extremely wealthy .
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There are a lot of extremely wealthy people here.
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It is well to remember that Susanna Jennens with her £300 per year was not extremely wealthy .
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As a civilization, it was solidly based in extremely wealthy areas, alongside which Arabia then seemed very poor.
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become
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Technicality Libel law has been allowed to become extremely complex.
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But on Macintosh it becomes extremely complex.
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Her husband, however, became extremely insistent and started following her and insisting that she must sign the papers.
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As more species of life are slowly added to the embryonic aquarium, the water becomes extremely sensitive to vicious cycles.
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They were fed on Herakleophorbia so they grew and became extremely strong.
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At the same time, the walls of the pocket become extremely thin but retain their connection with the general epidermis.
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Considerable regular input is required and this can become extremely repetitive, even boring.
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He becomes extremely sarcastic, referring several times to Brutus' honour.
complicate
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This sort of request has extremely complicated emotional, practical and social repercussions for the people who are left.
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In fact they can get extremely complicated .
feel
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Bathsheba, however, knew that he had come to see her, and felt extremely guilty.
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Apparently Skipper landed, felt extremely pleased with himself and threw an enormous buck with a twist in it.
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She felt extremely vulnerable at the side of this powerful man.
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Some patients may feel extremely insecure and show anger towards the staff.
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Even so, she felt extremely uncomfortable about facing him while the details were so clear in her mind.
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He felt extremely comfortable with her already, he thought happily.
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She could not deny, though, that she was feeling extremely happy that Monday.
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Watching over his son, Colin Parry felt extremely moved.
look
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Benedict, who had arrived yesterday, was looking extremely handsome in full mourning, even to a black cravat.
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If the merger goes through, then North Flinders looks extremely cheap right now.
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Glyn had come yesterday, but Shirley had already cooked, and he had looked extremely relieved at that.
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He looked extremely good this morning in his blue silk suit and splashy colorful hand-painted tie.
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He looks extremely real and solid, and is clearly not illusory, but he talks in a stiff, halting manner.
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He looked extremely annoyed and she was thankful to see Marguerite hurry out to obey.
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Quite suddenly he looked extremely dangerous.
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He looked extremely unhealthy; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask.
prove
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During the 1993/94 programme we shall continue the series of afternoon events which have proved extremely popular.
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Both the 6: 30 staff meetings and the WSOAs proved extremely unpopular.
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Morphine and its related narcotics have proved extremely useful in their ability to control pain.
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The dialogue proved extremely useful to Park.
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Health and fitness, in particular, have proved extremely popular and the clubs gymnasia are experiencing increased usage.
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It has proved extremely effective over the past few years.
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And this enterprise has proved extremely fruitful.
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With a vast established user base, and low upgrade costs for existing Windows users, it will probably prove extremely popular.
vary
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Topics are extremely varied and are often viewed from unusual angles.
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Now our audience is this amazing, extremely varied cross-section, with many young people.
work
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We all worked extremely hard in the next few days, cleaning all the rooms and preparing the food.
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In fact, there are many nontraditional types of partnerships that work extremely well in the entrepreneurial world of today.
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It is clear that over the past year everyone in has worked extremely hard and for long hours.
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Lucy works extremely hard at keeping her children clean and healthy and at encouraging their development.
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The blend of executive car and diesel engine works extremely well.
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Lewis worked extremely hard at preparing this part of the course for his pupils.
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He says simply that his civil servants work extremely hard.
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And so I came up with the following idea, which works extremely well for me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Quitting my old job was an extremely difficult decision.
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Regular visits to the doctor are extremely important for pregnant mothers.
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The conference was extremely badly organized.
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The fungus is extremely difficult to get rid of.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But, once established, the service class is extremely effective in ensuring that its offspring also joins this elite.
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It is extremely lethal, killing more than half the women in whom it is diagnosed within five years.
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Manyare extremely colorful, many are drab.
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She felt as if she had taken an extremely exacting examination.
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Some bands are extremely keen to sign with a respected manager who insists on collecting the artist's money.
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There was little point in remaining in the transit room; the onward flight to Changsha was an extremely dubious bet.
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Virtually all empty dwellings were now sold with vacant possession, at extremely high prices.