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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Back in London I had a foretaste of the conflicts that were to come.
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Indeed, she is a foretaste of what we shall be getting in these other ships.
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It was a foretaste of the wages-prices spiral and the increasingly futile chase after higher incomes.
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The arm which was trapped beneath Celia gradually went numb, like a partial foretaste of death.
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The latest outbreak of violence in London, he claimed, was only a foretaste of what might happen.
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The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming, he said.
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The riots were in a sense a foretaste of the Gordon Riots of the summer of 1780.