noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lifetime ban
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He faces a lifetime ban from athletics.
a lifetime guarantee (= one that lasts as long as the object your have bought )
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The binoculars are covered against manufacturing faults by a lifetime guarantee.
change/break the habits of a lifetime (= stop doing the things you have done for many years )
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It is hard to change the habits of a lifetime, but you must eat more healthily or you will have a heart attack.
the chance of a lifetime (= one that you are very unlikely to have again )
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If you don’t decide soon, you’ll have missed the chance of a lifetime.
the holiday of a lifetime (= a very good or expensive holiday that you will only take once )
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We took the family on a holiday of a lifetime to Orlando, Florida.
the lifetime of a parliament (= from when a government is elected until it calls an election )
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We shall not make changes in this area, at least in the lifetime of this Parliament.
the opportunity of a lifetime (= a very good opportunity that you will only get once )
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The winner of the contest got the opportunity of a lifetime – the chance to work with a top fashion designer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
short
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Shorter working hours and a shorter working lifetime have always been central to the Labour movement's demands.
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The near-Earth asteroids and comets have very short lifetimes .
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These result in short lifetimes for the upper states, and hence a loss of definition of the energy levels.
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Because of these orbital properties, some of these bodies have very short expected orbital lifetimes before colliding with Earth.
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The habits of a short lifetime die hard.
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If these bodies have such short lifetimes , why do we see so many?
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The broadening of the higher bands reflects progressively shorter lifetimes for the final highly-excited vibrational states.
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Specifically, under rapidly changing market conditions, acquired information is time-critical and tends to have a shorter lifetime .
■ NOUN
achievement
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Viktor Petrenko, a favorite, took the gold as a lifetime achievement award.
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In all, Kramer's films won 15 Oscars in various categories and one for lifetime achievement .
ban
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Read in studio Weightlifter Andrew Saxton is tonight hopeful that he won't now face a lifetime ban from his sport.
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He said the arguments for Proposition 140 do not say that a lifetime ban is not imposed.
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If you refuse, you will be treated as though you had failed the test, and you will face a lifetime ban .
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A federal court has upheld legislative term limits in Maine that do not have a lifetime ban .
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This can reduce weight but it also constitutes drug-taking, for which you may face a lifetime ban .
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The ruling yesterday is expected to have an impact on six other states that have legislative term limits with lifetime bans .
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Whether Proposition 140 imposes a lifetime ban was a major issue discussed by the state Supreme Court in 1991.
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Some backers of the initiative feared that a lifetime ban would make the measure easier to overturn later.
consumption
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This alternative version is referred to below as a lifetime consumption base.
earnings
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One comprehensive analysis of lifetime earnings costs due to childrearing is a study by Heather Joshi.
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Given students' aspirations and the data on lifetime earnings , the route to four-year institutions must remain open.
employment
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Employees are sometimes shareholders through stock-ownership schemes, but are mainly taken care of through labour laws and guarantees of lifetime employment .
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But workers here are accustomed to lifetime employment and see the provisions as a major threat to their job security.
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If lifetime employment is so limited, to what extent have labour unions fought to widen its coverage?
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Already the Pioneer Electronics Corporation has disregarded its lifetime employment policy by demanding that 35 mid-level managers accept early retirement.
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Far better, with the demise of lifetime employment , to switch to a notion of lifetime employability.
income
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For example, the marginal propensity to make bequests out of lifetime income may rise with the level of income.
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I have friends reaping lifetime income from maintaining a green corridor along an urban stream.
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This departs from the measure based on lifetime incomes , on account of systematic life-cycle factors and of transitory variation in incomes.
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In these circumstances it is not possible to summarize a person's opportunity set by the measure of expected lifetime income .
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The implications for lifetime income may however be quite different, and a pension scheme may involve no redistribution.
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In this framework, inequality in lifetime income arises basically from differences in endowments.
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This has led to proposals that the redistributive impact be assessed in terms of lifetime income .
limit
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All too often these individuals will run out of money in the face of managed care denials and low lifetime limits .
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Time limits Federal law Families have a lifetime limit of five years on aid.
opportunity
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Learning must become a lifetime opportunity , with new chances to update skills at work.
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The Olympics is a once in a lifetime opportunity .
■ VERB
last
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Good looks can last your lifetime !
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The second benefit is long lasting; in fact, it lasts a lifetime .
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We've had enough of fair-haired people here to last us a lifetime !
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Grief following any death can last a lifetime .
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Eating smoked salmon while talking to Johnny Prescott had seemed to last a lifetime .
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Indeed, the overwhelming fascination of men with female youth argues that pair bonds have lasted lifetimes .
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In a single sentence, Pope John provided the Council with a method and commentators with material that could last a lifetime .
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Properly cared for, however, they can last a lifetime , even become heirlooms.
live
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Two months ago on an innocent April afternoon, yet already she had lived through a lifetime of sorrow.
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It was a sight to live for a lifetime in memory!
publish
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Wright produced a small number of remarkable poems, of which only two were published in her lifetime .
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It survives in four separated fragments, was not published in his lifetime and probably remained incomplete.
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Of its eight books only five were published in Hooker's lifetime .
seem
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Their eyes had met for only the briefest moment, but it had seemed like a lifetime .
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To many twenty-year-olds, the age of thirty-five seems like a lifetime away.
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Eating smoked salmon while talking to Johnny Prescott had seemed to last a lifetime .
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It seemed a lifetime since she'd gone to bed the night before.
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At times it still feels like yesterday, otherwise it seems a lifetime away.
spend
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I have tremendous admiration for anyone who has spent a lifetime in the mining industry, especially at the coalface.
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They have spent a lifetime playing the birth lottery.
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One could spend a lifetime in Granada and still not see everything.
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And here she was now, in danger of being fired because she had spent a lifetime trying to be invisible.
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She is trying out exciting sports she has spent a lifetime wanting to try.
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One could spend a lifetime learning a small range of mountains, and once upon a time people did.
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We have, in our company, many highly experienced people who have spent a lifetime in our industry.
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I believe I could spend a lifetime getting Boat Quay and the people and the river into my camera.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A good tool should last a lifetime .
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During Dickinson's lifetime , only a few of her works were actually published.
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He suffered a lot of pain in his short lifetime .
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In our lifetime , ordinary people will travel to the moon.
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The National Medal of Arts award is meant to honor a lifetime of achievement.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All of Callinicos' philosophical sophistication and matchless political experience evaporate in the face of the art of his own lifetime .
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Create something that you love in your lifetime .
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Few women have been so worshipped and detested in their lifetime and by posterity.
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Good looks can last your lifetime !
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Grief following any death can last a lifetime .
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The government had argued that the original military recruiters didn't have the authority to offer lifetime health care.
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Would it continue to fascinate for a lifetime ?