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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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long
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To get to the pay review body involved an interesting and long gestation period by Ministers.
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But it was a long gestation , and a fierce debate still simmers about when and where the birth actually took place.
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Super-SARA has had a long and troubled gestation period.
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Experience has shown that the local appropriation of this programme often requires a long process of gestation and steady, patient work.
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Because of the long gestation and lactation periods, the interval between calving is usually at least two or three years.
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During a long gestation period, there is a lot of talk and little action.
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period
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This is hardly surprising, since its gestation period comprised the years in which Eliot was working on the Notes.
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It seems that the nine-month gestation period has a psychological as well as a physical reality in human life.
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Females give birth to as many as five offspring in late winter, after a gestation period of up to 10 months.
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To get to the pay review body involved an interesting and long gestation period by Ministers.
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As work continues to reduce the gestation period at which screening tests can be conducted, the practical problems will decrease.
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Super-SARA has had a long and troubled gestation period .
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A single foal is born after a gestation period of a year.
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He'd even got the gestation period wrong, but given the rest of it this was a minor consideration.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The gestation of the biotechnology industry has been rather short.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it was a long gestation , and a fierce debate still simmers about when and where the birth actually took place.
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Females give birth to as many as five offspring in late winter, after a gestation period of up to 10 months.
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Intrinsic factor and hydrogen-potassium ATPase activity were found in all specimens, including those of 13 and 15 weeks' gestation .
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Other cloned animals grow huge, and often sickly, during their gestation .
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Then, nine months of gestation later, an opportunity crops up out of the blue, or so it seems.
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To get to the pay review body involved an interesting and long gestation period by Ministers.
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Traditional design is a complex process of adaptation and assimilation in a perpetual act of gestation .