noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flight/train/coach departure
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I'm afraid your flight departure has been delayed.
a night train/bus/flight
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I took the night train to Fort William.
a relief convoy/flight
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A relief convoy of 10 trucks set off with food and medical supplies.
a short walk/flight/drive
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It’s a short drive to the airport.
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The hotel is only a short walk from the beach.
balloon flight
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a balloon flight over the Yorkshire Moors
book a flight
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He picked up the phone and booked a flight to Barcelona.
charter flight
connecting flight
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I missed the connecting flight .
domestic flights (= that stay inside a country )
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London’s airports handle one hundred thousand domestic flights a year.
flight attendant
flight crew
flight deck
flight delays
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Unfortunately flight delays do sometimes occur.
flight lieutenant
flight path
flight recorder
flight sergeant
flight simulator
flights of stairs (= sets of stairs )
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We walked up four flights of stairs .
freebie holiday/hotel/flight etc
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A waiter was handing round freebie glasses of wine.
long journey/walk/flight/drive etc (= a journey etc over a large distance that takes a lot of time )
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It’s a long walk to the shops from here.
long-distance travel/journey/flight/commuting etc
nonstop flight
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a nonstop flight to Los Angeles
scheduled flight/service (= a plane service that flies at the same time every day or every week )
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Prices include scheduled flights from Heathrow.
smooth flight/ride (= a comfortable trip in an airplane or car )
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It wasn’t a very smooth ride.
solo flight/voyage/ascent
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Ridgeway’s solo voyage across the Atlantic
the morning train/flight (= that leaves in the morning )
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She took the morning flight back to London.
the power of flight
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Some birds have lost the power of flight over millions of years.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
direct
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They built hub-and-spoke route systems based on a few large airports, rather than a web of direct , non-stop flights .
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There are also new direct flights from Newcastle, Norwich and Birmingham.
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Nova was developing in parallel as a booster capable of hurling a spacecraft to the Moon on a direct flight mission.
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The two countries also agreed to allow direct air flights from Pyongyang to Tokyo.
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She argued in favour of a direct flight to London and then on to Jersey.
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A late morning direct flight takes you to Kathmandu where you will stay at the Oberoi Soaltee Hotel for 2 nights.
domestic
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Airports ran out of fuel, and domestic flights were diverted.
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Time was when even domestic flights were something akin to exotic adventure.
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Diamond Service will continue on domestic flights .
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Coupons generally offer the best savings when used for coast-to-coast or other long-distance domestic flights .
international
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We will further liberalise transatlantic air services and encourage more international flights to and from regional airports.
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Many internal and international flights can also be made into Manchester Airport, located 57 miles south-west of Bradford.
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So let's not keep you in suspense and join Katie prior to her departure from a surprising location for international flight .
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Passengers on international flights will no longer be able to use curb-side check-in procedures for luggage.
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Mr. MacGregor I assure the hon. Gentleman that Customs continues to monitor international flights into the airport.
long
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Their chemical and isotopic compositions are meteoritic and they have had long histories of flight through space.
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He and his co-pilot settled down in the darkness for the long flight in the cramped cockpit.
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After a long flight your perceptions are dulled, and everything is synthetic.
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A long flight from the front porch to the sidewalk would have prevented any exit for her out the front door.
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It took away the normal drudgery of long flights with little radio contact and constant headings.
return
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This includes return flights , transfers, all meals and drinks, nightly entertainment, non-motorised watersports and activities.
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We often placed caches of them near the action to cut the wasted time of return flights .
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Each tour includes a return flight from Gatwick to Berlin, with transfers to and from your Berlin hotel.
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I never took the return flight home.
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En route, Shaker instructed two ships to join him on the return flight .
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In late afternoon the return flight begins.
scheduled
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Prices include all transfers, by air where applicable. Scheduled flights are also available at a supplement.
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On scheduled flights sporting equipment may be carried as part of your baggage allowance.
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Not a scheduled flight , for McKenna would be watching those.
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Prices include scheduled flights from Heathrow.
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Travel will be on scheduled flights with a choice of departure from either Gatwick or Heathrow airports.
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The price of £639 includes scheduled flights , transfer and dinner, bed and breakfast.
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The two-night packages include scheduled flights and breakfast.
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Ot has introduced short breaks to Paris using scheduled flights from nearby Southend Airport.
short
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Access to the dining room in the north-east corner of the main block was then made via a short flight of stairs.
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He watches four men trying to drag a doorless refrigerator up the short flight of steps into the band shell.
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Those who do not fancy long haul can share short flights between two or three budding pilots.
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It was a short flight , only a hundred miles.
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Both Langkawi and Kuantan are reached by short flights .
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Frankie stared towards the shorter flight of steps leading to the landing.
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They sat on stubby pillars at the bottom of a short flight of steps leading to the parade square.
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The upper-level dining gallery and sitting-room are reached from the living-room via short flight of open-riser timber stairs.
top
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The inspiring influence behind an automatic promotion triumph is determined Boro will not just make up the numbers in the top flight .
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Coventry are just hoping to play in the top flight next season.
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Six months in the top flight and he thinks he's f***ing Brian Sewell to the football world.
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Oh, not in the top flight , but he travels around the world - anywhere golf is played.
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He established Swindon as one of the most skilful sides outside the top flight before a frustrating switch to Tyneside.
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I see no reason why I shouldn't continue to score goals in the top flight .
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Inverleith retained their place in the top flight with a dramatic 7-6 victory over Touche Ross in the final game.
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That is enough to get us back into the top flight .
■ NOUN
attendant
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A flight attendant was thrown to the floor, breaking her ankle.
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Airlines do train flight attendants in how to spot trouble in advance, and in conflict resolution.
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Kim, 31, is a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines.
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In a staggering display of corporate arrogance, managers threatened to sack-and even sue-the striking flight attendants .
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She should have been either a flight attendant or a Greyhound bus driver.
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I once asked a flight attendant about this.
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He then gave them the choice of apologizing to the flight attendant or taking another flight.
charter
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Owing to space restrictions, sail boards are not allowed on charter flights .
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For weekenders, charter flights are of little use, as usually they offer only weekly or fortnightly returns.
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It deals with the occasional situation when a holiday party arrives on a charter flight and claims asylum enbloc.
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Prices for the above itineraries are based on charter flights from London to Bangkok.
crew
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The flight crew aborted the takeoff, however, could not stop the aircraft on the wet runway.
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In this case the members of the flight crew live in the bunker, alongside their missiles.
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As the party headed home the flight crew served cake and sang Happy Birthday.
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In the air, the all-male flight crew ruled.
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Pilots and other flight crew immediately come to mind; so too do maintenance engineers and air traffic controllers.
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The flight crew reported smoke in the cockpit and cabin before the tower lost contact.
deck
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The Doctor was marched on to the flight deck of the F61 at pistol point.
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I watched the edge of the flight deck move un-der us through the chin bubble at my feet.
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The carrier's flight deck is too short for its aircraft to land on and putting it right will cost around £50m.
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It meant long hours for the pilots, flight deck crews, repair crews and cooks.
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The forward attachment point is under the shuttle's nose about half way between the tip and the flight deck windows.
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Ammunition from the burning aircraft on the flight deck starts cooking off, spraying the deck with shrapnel.
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The patented plan is to feed data about the relevant airports into a small computer on the flight deck before take-off.
home
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After treatment the mountaineer will be on the next flight home to join his girlfriend at the couple's home in Radley.
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He spent Wednesday afternoon trying to find a flight home for Thursday.
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We had a good flight home with excellent connection times, which made it less exhausting than the journey to Jo'burg.
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I never took the return flight home .
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It was one reason why I caught the first flight home .
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The flight home was nothing to speak of.
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Pervez Musharraf, delayed his flight home because of a bomb threat.
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Vitamins, they said it was, to build me up for the flight home on Saturday.
night
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Aides' night flight attracts heavy congressional fire.
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Inside, the lobby lights had been dimmed like the interior of an airplane on a night flight .
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Varig offers day and night flights taking off every week from 12 cities in 9 different countries.
path
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Living near an airport which is proposing to add an extra flight path - over your house.
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It soars the length of the awning, wings flapping once, twice to propel it along an unerring flight path .
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Meadow pipits, commonest of upland birds, negotiated undulating flight paths over white tufts of cotton grass.
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As the gaggle crossed the next village on our flight path , many ships called in hits.
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No way was I going out with a Famlio ship in my flight path .
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She would then try to adjust her flight path to the fist by altering direction into the wind.
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That way it may get out of the bat's flight path before it enters the detection range.
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We must be under a flight path .
recorder
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Accident investigators have found the black box flight recorder .
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There remain the specialists who look after the flight recorder side of aircraft accident investigation.
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Flight Recorders Missing Falcon N888AR had voice and flight recorders installed in its tail.
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The small flight recorder section is headed by an Assistant principal Inspector.
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These were essentially flight recorders but were not made to withstand crash forces.
simulator
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The trials also involved asking a pilot to land a damaged plane using the flight simulator .
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Loren Carpenter launches an airplane flight simulator on the screen.
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Escapade basically provides the experience of taking off and landing a commercial airliner, aboard Britannia's 737 flight simulator .
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Reflectone, a Tampa-based maker of flight simulators , increased 1 3 / 4 to 15 3 / 4.
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Consequently, most pilots are trained on flight simulators .
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He trained in the flight simulator .
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The real classics, of course, our flight simulators .
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Corncob is one of the best Shareware flight simulators I used and will provide hours of entertainment for any would be Hero.
space
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Their finding could lead to new treatments for muscle wasting in humans, or ways to conserve muscle tissue during space flight .
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All are subjects of experiments that will measure changes in development brought on by space flight .
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If this aspect of space flight was not the most convenient then the solid waste management was even worse.
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Even if successful, equipment used in the experiments would have to be miniaturized before being used in space flight .
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It reminded the sergeant of mission control for some dark and mysterious space flight .
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Their proposed Lunar Tours will be the first series of commercial space flights to the moon.
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They are being pried open by computer quizzes, interactive exhibits, panoramic films and a simulated futuristic space flight .
test
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Now you know where the 900S fits in, why not fit in a test flight soon.
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The first test flight of the experiment occurred in mid-1992.
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Heavy with the extra responsibility of a man's life he wanted another test flight .
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The space agency impounded documents and even embargoed findings from the research gathered during the brief test flight .
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June 9 saw the Vimy ready for a test flight from the field.
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Ray Hanna too G-FIRE up for its first test flight on March 14, 1981, in primer.
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For a test flight , ring.
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Even this sortie was a test flight .
■ VERB
book
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Chances are they are emailing their mates or booking holiday flights .
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Typically, coupon holders must book a flight 14 days in advance.
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She was booked on to a flight arriving in London at midday but failed to board the plane.
catch
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And he had deliberately caught his flight with just minutes to spare.
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Bernstein caught the first flight out of Washington Friday, August 25, and again spent most of the day with Ruby.
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Perhaps she had witnessed the attack on her father but had had to leave in order to catch the designated flight .
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It was one reason why I caught the first flight home.
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She was so distressed that she caught the first flight from Calcutta to New Delhi.
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A week ago her plan had been to give Travis the slip and catch the first flight out.
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He must catch a flight to Washington to tell a committee that the cities need more money.
climb
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No, but I am aware of them if I pant a lot climbing up in a flight of stairs.
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Inspectors may have to climb ladders or many flights of stairs, or may have to crawl around in tight spaces.
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He climbed the last two flights with effort.
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On that fateful January day the beleaguered Matty climbed the five flights of stairs from trading floor to the cafeteria.
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Outside Polly's flat, in the well of the building, Jack was climbing the last flight of stairs.
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I climb the four flights and tell him to take his time at the door.
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My room is on top of a cloth-shop and I have to climb up a flight of dark stairs to get to it.
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He heard her climb the last flight , getting slower every day.
include
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This includes return flights , transfers, all meals and drinks, nightly entertainment, non-motorised watersports and activities.
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The promotion includes round-trip flights such as Los Angeles to New York for $ 388 with no advance purchase requirement.
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Each tour includes a return flight from Gatwick to Berlin, with transfers to and from your Berlin hotel.
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Extension of the smoking ban on airplanes to include any flight that starts or ends in the United States.
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These include flights , hotel with private facilities, breakfast, taxes and entrance to the fair.
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Prices apply until October 31 and include return flights , taxes and transfers.
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Prices include scheduled flights from Heathrow.
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The first prize includes return flights London-Delhi, half-board hotel accommodation and all transfers.
lead
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A flight of steps leads up from the courtyard and there is entry also from the house end.
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Orange flight led us in a wide orbit two miles away, still low level.
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Then he violently shoved her down the small flight of stairs that led off their bedroom to the bathroom.
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The procession reached the foot of the long steep flight of stairs leading up to the temple.
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To his left a shallow flight of oak stairs led to a narrow gallery from which led a number of doors.
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Instead, a steep, wooden flight of stairs led down into the ground beneath me.
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Frankie stared towards the shorter flight of steps leading to the landing.
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They sat on stubby pillars at the bottom of a short flight of steps leading to the parade square.
miss
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I mustn't miss my flight !
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Not once did Richardson miss the flight .
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No time to call Newman: she would miss her flight .
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I missed the maiden flight at Kitty Hawk and managed to be absent when Alan Dershowitz invented the appeal process.
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I was always tense, afraid I would miss the flight .
schedule
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Practically every scheduled flight is sold out, including extra flights.
take
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The next day, we took an early flight to Danang.
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My guess would be he would take the first flight to Helsinki and listen to the venture capitalists there.
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I saw food take flight from its physical manifestation, turning into light that shot through my body.
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Last year 1. 3 billion passengers took a flight in an airplane.
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A series of area road improvements could help Brown Field take flight as an air cargo hub.
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I took a meagre 22 flights .
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Janir, at five and a half, was eager to take his first flight alone.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
long-haul flight/route/destination etc
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By comparison with trying to sleep on the cramped seating of today's long-haul flights it was luxury indeed.
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Hence the decision to buy smaller wide-body jets for long-haul routes.
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It's jet lag and it affects nearly everyone on long-haul flights.
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Table 11.9 shows Kuoni's top long-haul destinations in 1983-4.
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The aunts have brought more baggage than the passengers Rainbow takes to long-haul flights at Heathrow.
maiden flight/voyage
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As Dole and Kemp headed across the country, the team of surrogates was making its maiden voyage in California.
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Fifty-two years before I met him, Lawrence Beesley had been a second-class passenger on the maiden voyage of the Titanic.
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I missed the maiden flight at Kitty Hawk and managed to be absent when Alan Dershowitz invented the appeal process.
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Read in studio A rather unusual hot air balloon has completed its maiden voyage.
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The maiden flight of the A-12 had been scheduled for November 1991, with a view to the aircraft becoming operational in the mid-1990s.
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The company said the first aircraft had experienced no problems during its 18-minute maiden flight.
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With barely a week to go before the maiden flight, Paul's report made alarming reading.
mercy flight/mission etc
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A Home Office spokeswoman confirmed last night that Stansted would be used for all future mercy flights.
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I had heard of the many mercy missions of the ruler's private planes.
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It was the first and last time I was to fly on one of its mercy missions.
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Rival warlords are also holding up mercy missions with feuds over contracts to take food to drought-ravaged towns and villages.
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Soldiers now face the harsh reality of their mercy mission in the barren country.
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The authorities also believe if these mercy missions continue it could present long term problems.
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They already have a Hercules plane running mercy missions to Sarajevo.
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With United Nations help, it's hoped this mercy mission will be the first of many.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All flights to Tokyo were delayed because of bad weather.
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Each room contains a sink, but the bathroom is one flight up.
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It's a 7-hour flight to New York.
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It's only an hour's flight to Detroit from here.
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United Flight 202 from Denver is now arriving.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But what if a large passenger aircraft has to be fuelled ready for flight ?
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Incidents between military and civilian flights were also down, from 23 in 1991 to six last year.
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The flight from London was delayed, and it was about three in the morning when I finally got to Venice.
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The flight up the valley was lower, faster, and much hotter than anything I had yet seen.