adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
father
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A quarter of lone fathers are over 50, reflecting their greater likelihood of being widowers.
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The proportion headed by a lone father , at 2%, has remained virtually unchanged in the last two decades.
figure
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At last a lone figure staggered out, singing raucously as he swaggered in a drunken stupor.
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But as I ploughed through the trough in the snow, a lone figure came weaving drunkenly towards me.
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Suddenly, as if on cue, a lone figure appears on a horse.
gunman
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But even proponents of the lone gunman theory acknowledge the wealth of interests served by Kabila's removal.
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A lone gunman with an apparent grudge can do great harm.
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Suddenly, a lone gunman appeared.
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Did lone gunmen commit both murders, as initial investigations concluded?
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So much for the lone gunman theory.
man
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The inequality between lone men and lone women is greatest among those aged 75 and over.
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A lone man was walking by and Ezra lowered his window and leaned out and asked the way to the cemetery.
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She hesitated and then sat down at the far end of one where a lone man was wholly immersed in a newspaper.
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He was standing with his back to a tree as all lone men stand if they can who are attacked by many.
parent
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More than half of lone parents with two or more children had incomes below their absolute poverty level at £227 a week.
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Thus the incomes of the lone parents were equivalent to about 57 percent of those of the couples.
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Two thirds of lone parent families depend mainly on social security benefits, compared with one in eight two parent families.
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But nothing we could do would reverse fundamental social trends which were producing more and more lone parents .
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Most lone parents - both men and women - have been married and are separated or divorced from their former partners.
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The majority of lone parents become so as the result of separation, divorce or death.
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The proportion of all families headed by a lone parent has increased from 8 percent in 1971 to 16 percent in 1988.
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Two members lived in local authority homes and 15 in households characterised by unemployment and chronically sick and/or lone parents .
survivor
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One man, the lone survivor of the massacre, carried the gruesome story to Tihosuco.
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The lone survivor was a 2-1 / 4-year-old girl.
voice
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To have one lone voice attacking royalty in Jubilee week seemed perfectly fair.
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It never bothered her before to be a lone voice .
wolf
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You know how he is - a lone wolf .
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From far off where the Zoo lay the howl of a lone wolf wound up into the night.
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I got the impression you're something of a lone wolf .
woman
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The inequality between lone men and lone women is greatest among those aged 75 and over.
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The 29 men and one lone woman arrived here in 1859.
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Or did they simply betray the presence of a lone woman in a dark deserted place?
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The bulk of this increase comes from families headed by a lone woman and, most often, a divorced woman.
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Some 42 percent of households containing an elderly person consist of a lone woman .
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In these circumstances it is hardly surprising that many lone women parents do not work.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
plough a lonely/lone furrow
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a lone figure in the snow
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A lone gunman burst into his house and shot him dead.
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Councilman Dexter cast the lone "no" vote.
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Out of the stillness, a lone bird began to sing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lone naked bulb dangled from the ceiling.
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Apparently, the murder of the lone black, Penn, was unworthy of note.
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Family graves may occasionally receive a visit by a lone person shouldering a glum aura.
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For start-ups it was the lone inventor in a garage.
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He suffered from post-traumatic stress because of a lone confrontation with eight youths two years earlier.
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It never bothered her before to be a lone voice.
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Sheila is a lone parent with two children, aged 13 and 15.
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This was the time when the lone and often despairing voice of dissent was heard from the terraces.