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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I have only a fragmentary recollection of the house where I grew up.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But I think it also reflected his sense of the inherent fragmentary nature of life.
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Other fragmentary legislation is to be found in recent years, e.g. the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975.
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The beginnings of cable and satellite policy showed the dangers of such a fragmentary approach.
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The novel's quest-story takes us into a mosaic of texts, parodies, translations, allusions and fragmentary quotations.
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The palaeontologist is like a detective trying to reconstruct a full story from a few fragmentary clues.
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The whole text has a fragmentary , indefinite quality.
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We also know that the fossil record is fragmentary in the extreme.