noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
extra
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He has looked a tremendous prospect on both starts to date, and will relish the extra furlong here.
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She will have learned from that experience and the extra furlong tomorrow will suit her perfectly.
final
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However, he also concentrated on the job in hand, sending Dodgy Dancer ahead well inside the final furlong .
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But he led the field a merry dance until being overhauled inside the final furlong .
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Then, as they came inside the final furlong , Piggott got the break he needed.
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Hopeful Bid looked as if he would win easily but was taken on by the Clive Brittain-trained Braveboy inside the final furlong .
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Roberts, riding Pride Of King, caused interference inside the final furlong in the same race.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A furlong short of the small covert where the fox had started she slipped from Fontana's back.
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Andre Fabre's colt was supplemented yesterday for the Group One contest over six furlongs.
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But he led the field a merry dance until being overhauled inside the final furlong .
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He shall put 1 row of dung on 1 furlong for 2 works.
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Roberts, riding Pride Of King, caused interference inside the final furlong in the same race.
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She will have learned from that experience and the extra furlong tomorrow will suit her perfectly.
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Tomorrow's distance of two miles four and a half furlongs should suit Mighty Mogul even more.
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Two furlongs, I thought frivolously, to put it suitably.