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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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He had never considered girls as glamorous as these to be within his range.
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The wives might not have quite as glamorous a job as their husbands flying the planes.
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Actually it's not as glamorous as it looks.
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The Volkswagen Passat was about as glamorous as a visit to the supermarket, which was what it was principally used for.
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The same applies to Scrash, although they're about as glamorous as a donkey on Skegness beach and marginally less attractive.
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The job was looked upon as glamorous and attracted some deb-types.
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It never looks half as glamorous today, now that the motive power is diesel.
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Above all, we still find the role of Diana as glamorous heroine appealing.
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In person they looked somehow smaller than he had expected, less glamorous , certainly younger.
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Yet the woman who finds a genuinely protective mate in a less glamorous man may still feel romantically deprived.
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They are, of course, gentler than Archdeacon Grantly; more democratic, less worldly and less glamorous .
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The term Rabari, they felt, was less glamorous than Raika, even derisive.
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I could have said that their way of life would slowly become less and less glamorous , more and more morally debilitating.
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There is a far less glamorous side to Warne, however.
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The colder facts about the patterns of career destinations for the bulk of social science graduates are less glamorous but more diverse.
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Consequently, many young people now see choral singing as less glamorous and challenging than playing in an ensemble.
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There is more glamorous mountain scenery ahead, but this unfortunately is not the way to Zurich.
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Young people were available, but they were being attracted to more glamorous occupations.
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Robert Maxwell had a military career more glamorous than Blackett's.
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For a more glamorous style, hair was brushed out after it had been set.
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But a win will bring them more glamorous and more lucrative opposition.
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The evening clothes were most glamorous .
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But the most glamorous were to come.
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The ruthless harvesting of some of the most glamorous species eventually developed its own evil logic.
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It appears that no one wants to own the most glamorous , star-studded, spooky cemetery in all of Los Angeles.
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An evening meeting on a Tuesday at Kempton is not one of racing's most glamorous occasions.
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It was Hollywood's most glamorous studio.
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Originally designed as freight ships, these may not be the most glamorous vessels afloat, but are pleasantly spacious.
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This was certainly not the most glamorous or heroic of episodes.
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Not everything that Paula had to do was quite so glamorous , however.
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Never before has charity been so glamorous .
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A junior minister in one of the less important departments has no very glamorous task.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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glamorous clothes
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glamorous Hollywood movie stars of the 1950s
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On television she looks so beautiful and glamorous .
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The picture showed a glamorous young woman sitting in a sports car.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both pictured a glamorous brunette, at least a dozen years older than herself.
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It specialises in giving everyday people a glamorous look that would do the cover of any top fashion magazine proud.
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On television she was so beautiful and glamorous , and here she looked so tired and almost old.
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Want to buy underpriced apartments in a glamorous location that has few vacancies and little competition from new construction?
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Yet the woman who finds a genuinely protective mate in a less glamorous man may still feel romantically deprived.