noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a committee/staff/family etc member
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Close friendships developed between crew members on the ship.
a family business (= owned and controlled by one family )
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For many years the hotel was a family business.
a family celebration (= for family members )
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Everyone’s coming here for a family celebration.
a family Christmas
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We always have a family Christmas at home.
a family doctor (= who treats all the members of a family )
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We’ve had the same family doctor for fifteen years.
a family dog (= that belongs to a family )
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Labradors make a great family dog.
a family firm
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The business grew from a small family firm into a large company.
a family friend
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He’s visiting family friends.
a family grave (= one where members of a family are buried together )
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Walter died in 1922 and was buried in the family grave in Finchley cemetery.
a family holiday
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I first visited Orkney on a family holiday when I was a boy.
a family pet
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These dogs make an ideal family pet.
a family planning clinic (= giving advice about how to prevent pregnancy )
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There are family planning clinics all over the country.
a family quarrel
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Your family quarrels are none of my concern.
a family resemblance (= between members of the same family )
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I couldn't detect any family resemblance.
a family row
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When he turned up late, there was a family row.
a family secret
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Their normally strong relationship is threatened when he has to reveal a family secret.
a family show (= one that is suitable for families and children to watch )
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It’s a real family show, with something for everyone.
a family tradition
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According to family tradition, he must sing at his own wedding.
a family vacation
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We had to cancel the family vacation.
a family/school etc outing
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a class outing to the ballet
a student/family counsellor (= helping students or families with problems )
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Student counsellors say there's a lot of pressure at college these days.
an immigrant family
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A quarter of the school’s students are from immigrant families.
aristocratic family
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an aristocratic family
blended family
extended family
family background
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Many kids lack a stable family background.
family breakdown
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A growing proportion of children are affected by family breakdown.
family circle
family conflict
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There are various techniques you can use to try and avoid family conflict.
family credit
family doctor
family entertainment (= suitable for adults and children )
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The holiday village has plenty of family entertainment on offer.
family fare
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The movie is suitable family fare .
family honour
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Refusal of a marriage offer is seen as an attack on the family honour.
family likeness
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I can see the family likeness .
family loyalty
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Family loyalty prevented her from telling what she knew.
family man
family name
family planning
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a family planning clinic
family practice
family practitioner
family problems
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She would never discuss family problems with outsiders.
family relationships
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Travelling a lot for business can strain family relationships.
family reunion
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a family reunion
family room
family time
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As the children get older, evenings become valuable family time.
family tree
family values
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The party places great emphasis on family values.
family/blood ties
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Family ties have been weakened by older people living apart from their children.
family/household income
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She works in a shop to supplement the family income.
family/parental expectations (= expectations that families or parents have for their children )
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Parental expectations for a first child tend to be quite high.
first family
Holy Family, the
lone-parent family
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a lone-parent family
loving wife/family/parents etc
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the confidence he had gained from having a warm and loving family
noble family/blood/birth etc
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a member of an ancient noble family
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The Marquis would have to marry a woman of noble blood.
nuclear family
One Parent Families/Gingerbread
one-parent family
raise...family
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It was time for Dean to settle down and raise a family .
school/family crest
the black sheep of the family
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Amy’s always been the black sheep of the family .
the family circle
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It’s important for children to have friends outside the family circle.
the family home (= where a family lives )
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The house was once the family home of the O'Dare family.
the family/household budget
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Often the husband and wife contribute equally to the family budget.
the home/domestic/family environment
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A lot of children suffer because of problems in their home environment.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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They may explore with Joseph whether he can get in touch with the other black families .
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Outsiders paid attention to slum conditions only when they burned and a black family died.
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Fourth, the two researchers were white and so handicapped in their assessment of black families and children.
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Some whites tried to help black families by aiding in guard duty.
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Finally, certain vulnerable groups were most affected by these changes, notably black families living in inner city deprived areas.
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In the mid 1960s, the average income for black families was only 54% of the average for white families.
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Also, assailants fire-bombed the home of a black family in a white Philadelphia neighborhood.
immediate
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Instead she joined her immediate family for a service at the private chapel on the Althorp estate.
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Cancer claimed the lives of her parents and hit 14 of 17 people in her immediate family .
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She was not going out at all and was communicating very little with her immediate family .
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She was respectfully requested to keep the fact he is on special assignment to herself and her immediate family .
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In some cultures eye contact between men and women is strictly forbidden outside the immediate family .
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Fidela Kirstein died in 1991; the couple had no children, and Kirstein left no other immediate family .
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This impetus originated mainly from two previously noted sources: the user's immediate family and the police.
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Indeed, I mentioned, the immediate family is quite distressed because nobody knows the language.
large
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She likes the atmosphere of a large family .
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Parents of large families now get priority housing and school registration and subsidized child care services.
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With high mortality rates even a large family size only just replaces the parents.
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I focus, I wait for a large Oriental family to walk out of my range.
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Why should those living alone or elderly couples be paying as high rates as large wage-earning families ?
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It was a large Victorian family kitchen, and looked so when it was empty or when only Mrs Beavis was there.
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And there was the answer - a large family of ants had made its home there!
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It is a small commercial music festival which helps to support a large free family entertainment programme.
nuclear
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The modern nuclear family is a vulnerable and fragile institution.
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They are an extension of his nuclear family but also a discrete entity.
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The individual with this ethic does not engage in any cooperative activity for goals beyond the immediate-interest of the nuclear family .
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Second, the extended family counts for relatively less and the immediate nuclear family for relatively more.
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For the first time in classical antiquity the nuclear family had assumed a central role in the politics of state.
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Within this nuclear family , the hopes and affections of its members were concentrated and the emotional level could rise dangerously high.
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The result of this dramatic change was the nuclear family .
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First, individual households will not be restricted to nuclear families , i.e. parents and their children.
poor
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What actually happened was that a less doctrinaire magistracy put local taxes up in order to provide bread for poor families .
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Less than one-third of children under six who lived in poor families lived in families that relied exclusively on welfare.
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They also wished to achieve some redistribution of income in favour of families , particularly poor families.
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And they come from some of the poorest families in the county.
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The rural areas contained 34 percent of poor families and 19 percent of extremely poor families.
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In poor families , the ability to work and to earn income is usually the only asset people have.
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Consequently, the poorest families will have even less money.
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As is to be expected, approximately 75 percent of the children come from poor families .
royal
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One of her main interests is our Royal family .
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But the crown prince is 71 himself, and, having only half-brothers within the royal family , may have difficulty ruling.
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And they devoted columns to discussing the possible effects of our exclusive pictures on the future of the royal family .
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Teiresias, the prophet who had brought so many distressful prophecies to the royal family , came to bring still another.
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Convicted murderers, especially brutal and disgusting ones, were followed around by as many paparazzi as the royal family .
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But much of it also went into the unbridled and anachronistic opulence of the royal family and the main tribal chiefs.
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One can only assume that the Roman officials exceeded their authority and treated the royal family with disrespect.
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Walk backward, with your eyes on the royal family before you bow to them.
whole
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There was an invitation for the whole family .
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The whole Poyser family goes off to bed by twilight.
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The price-conscious monarch could have bought presents for the whole family - and still had change from £50.
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She knew that it would raise too much suspicion for the whole family to leave at once.
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Later, on 18 September 1762, the whole family went to Vienna.
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We're not a whole family yet.
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The whole emphasis on family care has developed building on a somewhat distorted view of past patterns of family life.
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Though the whole family sang, he prospered during the piano lessons he received as a birthday present at age 6.
young
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But for some people, especially young healthy families , the cost would be higher.
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Some years back, when he had a young family , Lewry joined his local National Trust centre.
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The maker of hair-care and other personal-care products recently completed its first year under a younger generation of family managers.
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Normally this financial support passes from older to younger generations in families in a one-way flow.
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There are good swimming beaches each end of town with shallow sandy water, ideal for young families .
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But for the time being, with a young family at home, he is very happy to have switched to contract catering.
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Geoff is married, has a young family and has moved from his former home in West Yorkshire to Barmill.
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business
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In the Budget, we announced that we would take most family businesses out of Inheritance Tax altogether.
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He joined the family business after his graduation in 1988.
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Since then it has become a complete family business .
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He was upset that I was abandoning the family business , but we worked it out.
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The Court accepted that the two companies should really be regarded as a single family business .
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It was family business , and family business is left with the family.
doctor
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The change affected clinics that primarily perform abortions as well as family doctors who may do the procedure along with unrelated services.
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Your family doctor is always your first point of contact.
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The Beans had never had a family doctor .
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The family doctor was a name on a card rather than a face to be recognised in the street.
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It means he may have murdered one patient for every month of his 24-year career as a family doctor .
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The family doctor advised them to try a well-known rehabilitation unit, not realizing that it specialized in orthopaedic rather than neurological cases.
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The crisis has been caused partly by the reluctance of self-employed family doctors to invest the considerable sums needed to computerise.
home
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Designs range from two-bedroom holiday bungalows to six-bedroom family homes .
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It is going to be a family home .
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Graeme, above, was last night at the family home in Edinburgh.
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No evidence of a family home should remain.
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Firstly, a widowed grandmother may be remembered as moving into the family home .
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They only expect 12 around the dinner table these days at the family home at Stanton Harcourt.
income
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Under capitalism, housing costs 30 or 40 per-cent of family income .
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We did not get family support or family income supplement or one-parent family income.
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And Chapman University economists say median family income has risen well above $ 60, 000 a year.
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The result is that family income has soared at the top and fallen at the bottom.
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Two emotionally mature parents, moderate family income and stable home life are way ahead of age on the list.
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It is also tough, hard working, loveable, helps earn the family income and we can't live without it.
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Pessimism is especially high among baby boomers, with twice as many expecting family income to drop this year as last.
life
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They will have a totally different interpretation of family life and of the so-called moral nature of the matter.
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While this finding is hardly conclusive, the effect of family life on school success obviously must be considered.
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Are there a destructive set of values associated with family life in late twentieth-century Britain?
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And when it comes to balancing work and family life , research consistently confirms the importance of workplace culture on individual behavior.
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It seemed a veritable model of bohemian family life .
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It was here they experienced a taste of what normal family life could really be like.
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He is a stocky child who has no memory of family life .
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We have mixed expectations in Britain about the responsibilities of family life and parenting.
member
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Above all, family members frequently blame themselves - and they may be encouraged to do so by the primary sufferers. iv.
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These family members and friends need answers so they finally can say goodbye.
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In this case different strains were found in the family members .
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Individual feelings and complexities are repressed and there is a constant threat of mutiny among family members .
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Current welfare policies are increasingly seeking to build upon responsibilities between family members .
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Home-delivered medical services filled the gap between care by overworked family members and impossibly expensive care in hospitals.
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The parenting that Mike and Jennifer designed works for all three family members .
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Adult family members or professional assistants, accompanying the Laureate are welcome as Paying guests.
name
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Skoda's press officer is one Milan Smutny, whose family name means sad.
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Says Peter Mayock: The surname Mayock is a unique and uncommon family name .
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J stands for Johnstone, the family name behind a company which keeps six members of the family gainfully employed.
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He loved his sons, and Alvin Sharpes loved his family name .
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A hint of humanity and he was a disgrace to the family name .
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He had told Wyatt that family names were irrelevant to him, and, besides, he had always liked birthdays.
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Professor Hoskins has written that the 161 households recorded in the 1670 Wigston hearth tax return represent eighty-two different family names .
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There is even disagreement as to whether this family name should be Gaterinidae or Plectorhynchidae.
parent
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Health and infant mortality 7 Children under five How many live with both parents or in a one parent family ?
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Priority for assistance will be given to senior citizens, disabled and single parent families .
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And to what extent is the church ministering effectively to the needs of single parent families ?
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Consumer durables Lone parent families are less likely than two parent families to have household consumer durables.
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In common with families in general, one parent families have been getting smaller.
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Lone parents have much smaller proportions of household heads in the labour market than two parent families .
planning
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You can discuss with your doctor or family planning clinic which is most suitable for you.
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Anyone, married or single, male or female, young or not-so-young can go to a family planning clinic.
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The family planning boom Today there are more women using modern contraception than ever before.
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I did make an appointment at the local family planning clinic.
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I know now that you can get Durex free from family planning clinics, but not many people know that.
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But then how many fellas will go into a family planning clinic?
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Provincial and local authorities were ordered to double family planning funding.
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Some family planning clinics will also arrange for you to be given a blood test.
relationship
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Certainly such support is not a routine feature of family relationships , even between parents and children.
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She also looked to the basic relationships , usually 148 family relationships, that might provide strength to the patient.
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Herskovitz created Thirtysomething and now knows exactly where the emotionally richest fault-lines of family relationships lie.
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And I wondered how much strength she could have received from her family relationships .
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They fear damaging the child within their secure family relationship .
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Does equality have to mean sameness for spouses in order to have equal power and status in our most basic family relationships ?
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A sense of loss of mutually supportive family relationships .
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The first section focuses on changing counterproductive patterns of communication between parents and children, thus strengthening family relationships .
size
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Dual graduate couples have the highest fertility of all, if family size up to four children only is considered.
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The good news is that in many countries the definition of what constitutes ideal family size is already evolving downward.
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The decline of infant mortality makes it easier to accept the idea of smaller family size .
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Sam Ruang, who listens quietly, says decisions on matters like family size belong to Mariam.
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Moreover, family size may be a function of capital or income.
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Education also increases equality in the marriage relationship, giving women more control over decisions concerning family size .
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A 200-gram tube of Colgate, the family size that is popular in cities, costs roughly that much.
tree
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Sir Walter Scott once said he was honoured to be a mere twig on the Swinton family tree .
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Perhaps you can give me some help on the family tree .
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Tracing your family tree Where do you start?
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There also are successful family trees that grow both vertically and horizontally.
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By the 1870s Darwinians were using diagrams showing hypothetical family trees to account for relationships among species.
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Her family tree included a former prime minister and the governor of Tokyo.
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But after the revolution, many family trees were destroyed or forgotten, especially in the cities.
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But all they could do was draw a family tree and suggest early and aggressive screenings.
unit
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Housing mirrors the isolated and privatised nature of domestic labour and reinforces each self-contained family unit .
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In the future the development of specialised products may well become more important on family units .
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It is worth sounding a warning to those who are part of a tightly-knit family unit .
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Substitute care was seen as supporting parents as well as providing for children's needs, and practical assistance as preserving the family unit .
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The smaller family units can not cope with grandparents either in terms of money or space.
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They were contributors to a family wage rather than independent earners, but they were not members of a family unit of production.
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Construction and cultivation require cooperation within the family unit and within the community.
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The farms were run as family units with an important role for the wife.
value
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They must contribute towards constructing genuine communities, family values generating City values.
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Indeed, many people here made their money under Republican leadership and cite family values and school choice as their chief concerns.
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This is not because Las Vegas has suddenly discovered family values .
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In the 1994 bi-election year, prayer in the schools, so-called family values , and similar issues came to the forefront.
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If he for ever growled songs about factories, family values and running wild on a minimum wage they would be happy.
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Philandering erodes love and family values , but it does not necessarily destroy them.
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And after voicing Republican-tinged themes of smaller government and family values , he is sitting pretty in the polls.
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The major distortion of family values front an economic perspective is on the revenue side of the ledger.
■ VERB
extend
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Other changes concern transformations of family structure, usually so that extended families are more distant and so have less control.
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The researchers concluded that the supportive atmosphere of the extended family had been sufficient to counterbalance the effects of the questionable diets.
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Therapy will extend to families of victims who often suffer their own trauma because of the abuse.
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Pretty and earthy, she can be aggressive or retreat believably, and has some nice scenes with her extended family .
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Alstom is also extending the product family concept to infrastructure elements, introducing two ranges of signalling equipment.
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Yet extending family is such a decisive factor in the success of working parents, they really can not afford their reluctance.
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Overcrowding has weakened the cherished tradition of extended families living together.
help
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Social workers try to help individuals and families by offering support, advice and practical assistance.
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Perhaps you can give me some help on the family tree.
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The states would get grant to help these working families buy coverage.
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A debt counsellor who's been helping the family says the lender has shown no compassion.
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More constructive measures were also introduced to help families with children financially and medically.
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At one of the seven outdoor and museum stops, professional paleontologists will help families dig for fossils.
live
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Instead we made them talk about where they lived and about their families .
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Less than one-third of children under six who lived in poor families lived in families that relied exclusively on welfare.
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Her parents were a stable influence and Beverley continued to live in the family home in the village of Corby Glenn.
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In 1987, over one million children were living in families with an unemployed head.
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Who are these breadwinners who, while employed, are none the less still living with their families in poverty?
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More than a million and a half children - one in eight - live in these one-parent families .
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Most live far from families and childhood friends.
raise
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The heaviest burden falls upon the housewives, whose task it is to raise their families in these circumstances.
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They had married right after high school, and raised a large family on a meager budget.
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Members who are temporarily retired to raise families are also entitled to this concession.
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At times, he was saddened by never having married and raised a family of his own.
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Perhaps Reuben and Miriam were secretly not happy with the prospect of raising a family in Cork.
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Dole, raised in a Democratic family , registered as a Republican because the party dominated local politics.
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Many left to marry and raise families .
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You can walk down the street, raise your family , earn a living.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
immediate family
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Cancer claimed the lives of her parents and hit 14 of 17 people in her immediate family.
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Her husband and her immediate family live in Moscow.
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Instead she joined her immediate family for a service at the private chapel on the Althorp estate.
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My own camp was wedged between the two branches of my immediate family.
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Oh, and I should probably start with your immediate family.
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She was not going out at all and was communicating very little with her immediate family.
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She was respectfully requested to keep the fact he is on special assignment to herself and her immediate family.
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The brotherhood of man did not end with the immediate family of siblings at which it began.
labouring class/family etc
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Although in other poems Leapor shows that labouring class women can be desperately unhappy in marriage, she is not unequivocal.
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Day schooling was received by only a minority of children from the labouring classes, in some parishes a very tiny one.
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Even 2 out of every 3 farm labouring families stayed put and overall 3 out of every 4 households remained virtually the same.
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For the most part, however, the labouring classes did not move very far.
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His poetry often depicts labouring class life vividly.
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Relatively little attention has been paid to the origins of labouring class poetry.
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Stephen Duck, however, is not the first instance of a labouring class poet in the eighteenth century.
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The claims made for these poems, however, reveal some of the difficulties in a discussion of labouring class poetry.
landed gentry/family/nobility
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But it certainly suited the dominant landed gentry to interpret him in that way.
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For the landed nobility, the impact of Emancipation was deeply disturbing.
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It was built originally by one of the old wool merchants, who wanted to establish his family as landed gentry.
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Redmond is Harry Trench, a new doctor and youngest son of landed gentry with a small investment income.
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The landed gentry planted for their grandchildren avenues of hardwood that they themselves would never see.
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The landed nobility provided tsarism with a perilously narrow social base.
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The King appointed them to high offices of state, which the aristocracy and landed gentry considered to be their prerogative.
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The main burden borne by the peasantry remained that of the State and the landed nobility.
play happy families
problem child/family/drinker etc
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A basic issue between Paul and the Corinthian problem children was over a proper understanding of the self.
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Another reason to consider a moderation-goal option is that a broader range of problem drinkers can be attracted and treated.
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BAccording to a federal survey, men are much more likely to be problem drinkers than women.
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Data collection is mainly by questionnaire and structured interviews with families, youth groups and problem drinkers.
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It does reflect the position of the Corinthian problem children, however.
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Services for problem drinkers are very fragmented at present.
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They were talking about a problem child.
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This problem drinker population has been largely ignored or at least underserved.
run in the family
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Asthma seems to run in our family.
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Good looks must run in the family.
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Twins run in the family, so it didn't surprise us when we heard the news.
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And yet great passions, or the tendency to them, seemed to run in the family.
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Best not to say anything about it running in the family.
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It's more of a case of maintaining form while others struggle, and it often runs in the family.
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Jimmy Souness, who was a school cleaner, had a history of heart disease which runs in the family.
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The truth was that deafness ran in the family.
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Writing books about grandparents seems to run in the family.
start a family
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But then couples began to wait longer before starting families and also began to worry more about money.
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Effects on family life probably include contrary tendencies - accelerating or delaying decisions to start families, for example.
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Hirsh was a hospital pharmacist who needed to hold down two jobs to save money to start a family.
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Many of these women may still start families in their late 20s or 30s.
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Nadia Comaneci and her husband, Bart Conner, want to start a family.
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They may have started , or are about to start a family.
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This is unlikely to deter parents wishing to start a family at a more mature age than usual.
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Though women friends my age were talking about marriage and starting a family, I remained unsure.
the bosom of the family/the Church etc
the first family
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A lot of the families living in this area are very poor.
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Do you know the family next door?
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Having an intact nuclear family does not guarantee that a child will turn out well.
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He comes from a family of eight children.
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Her family came to America from Scotland in about 1750.
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I grew up in a large family in the South.
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My extended family usually gets together at holidays.
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Only her immediate family knew she had heart disease.
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Our family has lived around here for hundreds of years.
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Pearl is the last surviving member of her family .
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Single-parent families are much more common these days.
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Spanish and Italian are part of the Romance language family .
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The cost of sending kids to college - even for a small family - is extremely high.
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The resort isn't really the place for people with young families.
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tigers and other members of the cat family
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Various members of the Kennedy family were at the funeral.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And last but not least, the baby of the family .
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It is their village now, just as much as it was for the old village families.
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Predictably they will tell the adviser that they can not rehouse all those families and perhaps the tenant can contact the police.
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Secondly, in family abuse, the history of the relationships may be of great significance in current abuse.
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The following computations are based on both general assumptions about all families and specific assumptions about families at specific income levels.
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Until recently, all she and her family could do was wait and see.