I. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a later version
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a later version of the software
an hour/three hours etc later
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An hour later she arrived home.
at a later stage
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These points will be dealt with at a later stage.
in later years
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In later years he regretted their argument.
later chapters (= the ones after this one )
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These points will be explored in more detail in later chapters.
later generations
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For later generations, however, the chances of getting work on leaving school were much lower.
leave (sth/sb) soon/now/later etc
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If he left immediately, he’d catch the 7.30 train.
see you later (= see you soon, or later in the same day )
the later part (= the part towards the end of a period of time )
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in the later part of the twentieth century
the later/final/closing stages
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She was well cared for during the final stages of her life.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at a later/future date
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Or how about a vital organ being removed and the opt-out card being found at a later date ?
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Peter Novick dismisses the Freudian theory of repression of trauma leading to problems at a later date .
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Secondary sources, in contrast, are interpretations of the past produced at a later date .
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Some firms are very flexible on this issue and where possible, allow them to relocate at a later date .
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The total would be capped at a later date .
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They feared further repercussions at a later date because their participation in the boycott would almost certainly go into their files.
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This is particularly helpful if your school's organisation seeks to register as a charity at a later date .
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This means that the sea in which the Bright Angel was deposited flooded the land in the east at a later date .
catch you later
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Okay, Randy, catch you later.
sooner or later
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Sooner or later this would end up in the papers, and I would be out of a job.
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He is worried that sooner or later his business will fail.
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I'm sure Brian will turn up sooner or later.
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She's bound to find out sooner or later.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Later in the poem there is a reference to the poet's unhappy childhood.
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Later that afternoon, Anna came to see me.
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Later that month we got another letter from them asking for more money.
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Later that night Bernstein visited her in her apartment.
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A couple of days later I saw her in a downtown bar.
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I'll tell you about it later when I'm not so busy.
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I didn't find out the truth until much later .
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I found out much later that some of the children I taught had become teachers themselves.
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Ronald Reagan joined the Republican Party in 1962 and later became Governor of California.
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She became ill in 1993, and died two years later .
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Sorry, I'm busy right now - I'll speak to you later .
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The first part of the film is really boring but it gets better later on.
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They reached the edge of the city half an hour later .
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We are developing a training course to run later in the year.
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We heard later that he had gone back to Japan.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few days later I received another call.
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A patient who signs a consent form for a surgical operation can not later sue the surgeon for battery.
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A short time later , a woman entered the compartment and sat down across from them carrying a copy of Vogue.
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But we passed again, later , and the hands hadn't moved to an earlier time.
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He was later transferred to St John's hospital in Livingston where he underwent plastic surgery.
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Here it is ten months later and they are able to say thanks, we are healing..
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Time enough for that later , if need be.
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We will consider the implications of the failure of this assumption later in the section.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
much
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Instead, the separation occurs much later when the embryo is made up already of many hundreds of cells.
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The turbo version of the new Golf Diesel is not due until much later in the year.
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They were not actually detected until much later .
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We instinctively understood that de Niro was referring to Taxi Driver, even in this much later movie and it's funny.
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He was writing much later than the others.
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A missing half wandered somewhere else, arriving much later .
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The logical outcome of this slow change of direction was to come later , but not much later.
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One afternoon after an especially long session she was forced to catch a much later bus home than usual.
slightly
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He was also seen on the same Monday slightly later standing at Crown Point, Martlesham.
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That direct engagement with the space may be compared with a slightly later work by Richard Serra.
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The slightly later and opposing tradition is that of the lexicographer as the objective observer and recorder of language.
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They occur in deposits slightly later than most afropithecins.
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The nose is mutilated; the bust was apparently deliberately buried in late antiquity with a companion piece of slightly later date.
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The lid does not belong and is slightly later in date.
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A coach-house of slightly later vintage served as a double garage.
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Developments in the creative and performing arts coincided with only a slightly later phase.
■ NOUN
date
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If the new system is a success it will be adopted on other sites at a later date .
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Kozloski will rule on the divorce terms at a later date .
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When the baseline is repeated at some later date , after the intervention programme, the same times must be used.
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Allowing some children to enter school at a later date gives them more time to play.
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No camping or lodging will be available until a later date .
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Although these access paths can be changed at a later date , this can usually be achieved only with considerable difficulty.
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Further sounds will be made available on library cards at a later date .
life
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Lion cubs too play games that help them master the skills that will be essential for their success in later life .
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But, though large, the book is not, like Welles in later life , overweight.
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Let us begin with the economic aspects of later life .
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Sometimes much painful emotion must be discharged in the later life areas before basic-basic dis-closes itself.
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Causes of mortality in later life Does the pattern of mortality change with increasing age?
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The unbalanced responsibilities which they bear as carers continue in middle and later life .
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The direct impact of improving health in later life has been relatively recent.
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He certainly enjoyed perfect health, helped, he claimed, by being a teetotaller and in later life a vegetarian.
stage
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The lawyer's time will add to costs and is unlikely to result in time savings at a later stage .
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At a later stage the study will be extended to differences in office skills.
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It can then be shown whether or not fewer people are eligible for representation at some later stage .
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That is a matter for the House to decide at a later stage .
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Building up experience and discovering magic items gives Samson an enhanced chance of surviving the later stages of the adventure.
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They liked Mr Major, whose performance visibly improved as his public assurance grew in the later stages of the campaign.
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Their fun, courtesy of the Conservative Party, was to come at a later stage .
time
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The two main sources of later times , Rifat Efendi and the have simply ignored Molla Yegan altogether.
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But a neighbor of later times was unconvinced.
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Reciprocation seems to depend on the expectation of assistance from the beneficiary at a later time .
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We can see each of these things again at a later time .
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During the Renaissance and in later times the Pantheon has aroused the admiration of artists of all nations.
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That came out at a later time .
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This has been altered greatly in later times and was neglected in the nineteenth century.
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In later times , he ascended to heaven to be crowned with stars.
version
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In its later versions , Bacon is much cleverer than this.
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But the testers all agreed that of the two, the later version was by far the more enjoyable to use.
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It was omitted from later versions of Windows.
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His analysis was more like the algorithm embodied in one of the later versions of Bacon.
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In later versions of the natural rate hypothesis, Friedman was tacitly to abandon this view altogether.
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Several questions on health and social supports were added to a later version of the screening questionnaire.
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Am I right in thinking I have seen an earlier and a later version .
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Mrs Thatcher's later versions of the affair showed much uncertainty over the facts.
years
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In later years she suffered very badly from arthritis.
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However, the variations in mortality between the developed and Third World in the later years of life are much less extreme.
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In the later years , teaching generally becomes less formal.
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The quality of life in the later years is often abysmal.
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During his later years he practised law in London and on the Northern circuit.
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A double album of greatest hits and misses, which concentrates on their later years .
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Whether, and how far, he changed in his later years must be examined in the next chapter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dixon pleaded guilty to all the charges and will be sentenced at a later date.
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I will explain how to deal with this problem in a later chapter.
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In later centuries Venice lost its former importance and began to go into decline.
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In a later speech, the minister admitted he had been wrong.
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The author returns to the same subject in a later section of the book.
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The Hartmans traded in their '92 VW for a later model.
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This topic will be discussed more fully in a later chapter.
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We can sort out the final details at a later stage.
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You'll find that information in a later chapter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Skills can be refined at a later date.
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The allowances can be diminished for later children, on the grounds that the marginal cost goes down.
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The newborn can also accomplish this at a later time.
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The opening sprint was won from dead last, a mid-card sprint from eighth, a later route from sixth.
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The view is persuasively developed in the later portions of the book but without a sense of its controversial character.
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This will be developed further in a later section which describes the binomial and Black-Scholes option pricing models.