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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
boomerang generation
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The boomerang generation are saving thousands in rent by living at home.
first generation
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the first generation of hand-held computers
future generations
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We’ve been able to save this land from development and preserve it for future generations .
generation 1.5
generation gap
Generation X
Generation Y
sandwich generation
the generation gap (= the difference in attitudes, tastes etc between older and younger people )
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Taste in music is a good indicator of the generation gap.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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early
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The tendency for earlier generations to lean so heavily on providence had been connected with the brevity and insecurity of life.
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It can be autocratic and invade our privacy in ways that earlier generations could not have envisioned.
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Other signs of a relaxation of the extreme punctilio of earlier generations were now clearly to be seen.
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But government also can protect people in ways that earlier generations could not have envisioned.
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Nobody readily entered that soul-searing shame of their six to seven earlier generations .
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To an earlier generation , Clinton and Dole would have been considered men in the Horatio Alger tradition.
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Working men of earlier generations had less need to assert who or what they were.
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Yet that earlier generation was able to live within its means, balancing budgets year after year.
future
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Or a weapon to be used against future generations ?
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If he survived, those patterns would become eternal, for his genes would pass them on to future generations .
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His statistics are there in the Somerset yearbooks for future generations to admire.
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The president vetoed those cuts, and is working to keep Medicare affordable for this and future generations of seniors.
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One can not help wondering what future generations will think of our freaks and follies.
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Are its genes transmitted to future generations via the same vehicles as the host's genes?
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Furthermore, they did not have the same access to health services that future generations will have received.
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He proposed a theory in which the germ plasm was totally isolated from the adult body that transmits it to future generations .
late
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The rapid building of cheap, poor quality housing was to provide a later generation with serious problems.
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The memory of them may have influenced a later generation of religious sculptors.
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Visigothic and Burgundian law-codes are more precise, but they date from later generations .
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The pattern was set by the first fanatics, destined to become the heroes of later generations .
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If later generation was significant, the cavernous conditions in parts of the Carboniferous Limestone could provide remarkable reservoirs.
new
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Without mentors we have to reinvent the wheel each new generation .
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So why don't you both get off prime time telly immediately and make way for the new generation ?
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Lott knew his bid would be seen as a direct threat to Dole from a new generation of aggressive conservatives.
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A new generation of sun care!
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The new generation of parachute is faster and more maneuverable.
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Pictured opposite: Enterprise Engineering's facilities are well equipped to handle new generation exotic steels.
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It performed until 1955, when its tasks were turned over to a new generation of computers.
old
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But these unearned gains concern only the older generation .
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Many of the older generation in the south died; many have emigrated; the rest keep their heads below the parapet.
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Awake, as in days of old , the generations of long ago!
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Moreover, in the old centralized system, both the new and old generation fighters had the same abysmally low rates.
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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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Many of the poster writers were former students, the older generation of educated youth who had returned from the countryside.
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In some ways it was good, though a lot of the older generation of vets didn't like it much.
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He was the representative of this older generation in perfection.
present
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Without your support many fascinating places would otherwise be lost for present and future generations to enjoy.
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The present generation is neither one thing nor the other.
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Most assembly work is still too complex to be done by the present generation of relatively senseless machines.
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When Congress passed the present generation of campaign-finance laws in the 1970s, it created the Federal Election Commission to enforce them.
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The present generation of young people is acutely aware of the need for a second language.
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The present generation , however, still has to finance the promises already made.
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Yet future historians are likely to look more kindly on his achievements for his country than the present generation .
previous
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Where would we be but for the work done by previous generations ?
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Generation X, best known for its pierced bodies and jaded outlook, is more optimistic about Wall Street than previous generations .
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It is a legacy of this and previous generations and must be tackled now.
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Unlike previous generations of cruise ships, the ever-larger vessels delivered in recent years have virtually no single cabins.
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For a start, those retiring today are better off financially than any previous generation .
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Trade and law drew the interest of the kind of talented young men who in previous generations chose ministry for their lifework.
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And today's generation is living longer than previous generations.
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We travel, change professions, know more and live longer per capita than any previous generation .
successive
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It is often said that the North East was populated by successive generations of industrial scabs.
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But it does set up the preconditions for perpetuation of the lack of reading skills within successive generations .
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Natural selection is of traits favourable to the survival, not of individuals, but of successive generations .
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Some of the vellum bound books are nearly 400 years old and have been read by successive generations of Oxford students.
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Cumulative contributions by successive generations of researchers create an increased and increasing understanding.
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Knowledge is never static, but successive generations of nurses fail to implement the findings of research.
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The bodies of successive generations transport them through time, so that a long-lost character may emerge in a distant descendant.
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No medical text has ever been so widely used by successive generations of medical students and doctors.
whole
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Ianthe was the only child of elderly parents, who seemed to be a whole generation removed from those of her contemporaries.
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I think my whole generation , at least the ones that were in conflict, have the same thing.
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Mrs Thatcher appeared to see herself as the embodiment of revenge upon a whole generation of social engineers.
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Before the First World War, which slaughtered a whole generation of men.
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Within sight of the goal, a whole generation cut itself off from all that was promised.
young
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Today, however, especially among the younger generation , we see a very different set of attitudes in western countries.
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I was already well-known in classical circles, but this shook up the young generation and made them conscious.
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The younger generation is used to Computer Assisted Learning and other modern technology which is an adjunct to learning.
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I feel that I can help singers, especially the younger generation .
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Voice over It's a recruiting ground for the younger generation and a meeting place for old friends like Billy Connolly.
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Basic compassion, not just for the old but for the younger generation too, lies at the heart of this idea.
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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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As gay men grow older they have little to connect them to the vibrancy and hope of a younger generation .
■ NOUN
electricity
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While the direct use of fuels for purposes other than electricity generation has gone down, the output of electricity has gone up.
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To assist in the development of alternative forms of non-polluting electricity generation .
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They capture the heat produced in electricity generation and distribute it through underground pipes.
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By then nuclear energy should be contributing more than one-fifth of electricity generation .
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Similarly large investments are also necessary in electricity generation .
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Conventional electricity generation loses to the atmosphere enough heat for the needs of every home, office and factory in the country.
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In the domestic market coal use will be concentrated largely on electricity generation and steel manufacture.
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I am delighted with the progress that we are making in finding new sources of electricity generation .
gap
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It seemed that he had a foot planted firmly on both sides of the generation gap .
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The generation gap is another evil plan.
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This versatile book combines communicative activities with information on topics as varied as national customs, food, and the generation gap .
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He tells me that they had a discussion in school about the generation gap .
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The generation gap creates tension Law is now a young profession.
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With class war anaesthetized by the Cold War and affluence, the generation gap and teenagers became a subject for serious observation.
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The results were stunningly successful and caught the flavour of Sixties London and the generation gap .
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The generation gap here was too wide.
power
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It is not an attractive proposition for independent power generation because it is difficult to finance.
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The ceramics -- cables encased in a sheath of liquid nitrogen -- are being developed for power generation and other machinery applications.
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We could make more efficient use of power generation too.
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Another exciting prospect for future power generation is terrestrial fusion power.
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The current low gas price does not provide any incentive for the massive use of gas in power generation .
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We would like to re-emphasise the need to recycle coastal sites such as those used for power generation .
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The government on Dec. 30 suspended coal exports from Jan. 1, 1993, in order to conserve supplies for domestic power generation .
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The four other divisions manufacture power generation plant, marine equipment, power transmission and distribution equipment and industrial products.
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pass
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They're living proof that asthma can be passed from generation to generation.
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When Congress passed the present generation of campaign-finance laws in the 1970s, it created the Federal Election Commission to enforce them.
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This is one of the methods by which the history of the people is passed on from generation to generation.
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The narratives help parents become conscious of the negative and positive traditions passed down through the generations .
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We want to see wealth and security being passed down from generation to generation.
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Twilight Tales is a collection of spooky legends and folk tales passed through generations in the Southwest.
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They influence development, and they get passed on to future generations .
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A generation passed , an entire generation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the rising generation
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a new generation of TV technology
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Many people consider her among the best writers of her generation .
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One generation ago, most families could afford a house on one salary.
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Over half of the people in my generation have parents who are divorced.
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People of his generation often have a hard time with computers.
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the generation of electricity
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There's still a pretty wide generation -gap in German society.
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Three generations of Monroes have lived in this house.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the older generation just doing, you know, same old, same old.
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But habits die hard, even from one generation to the next.
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For generations the place where all the more mature locals have come to buy their clothes.
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It was organized to help prepare a generation of scientists whose skills will be increasingly in demand.
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Its status in this respect as the successor of Latin had by then already been developing for generations.
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On average only five of the water fleas in each generation manage to breed before they are eaten by a fish.
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The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years.
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The human being, in other words, may be the victim of generations of male choice even more than female choice.