I.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a wasted/lost/missed opportunity (= one you do not use )
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Many people see the failed talks as a missed opportunity for peace.
be lost at sea formal (= be drowned in the sea )
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His father had been lost at sea three months before.
lost control of himself
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Davidson lost control of himself and started yelling.
lost control of
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The Democrats lost control of Congress in the last election.
lost her looks (= became less attractive )
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When she lost her looks she found it difficult to get work.
lost its savour
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Life seemed to have lost its savour for him.
lost productivity
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It cost the country $4 million in lost productivity .
lost property
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Thankfully, someone had handed my bag into Lost Property.
lost revenues
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Strikes have cost £20 million in lost revenues .
lost the thread (= was no longer able to understand it )
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His mind wandered, and he lost the thread of what she was saying .
lost touch with (= stopped writing or talking to )
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I lost touch with Julie after we moved.
lost...composure
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He has lost his composure under the pressure of the situation.
lost...touch (= lost his ability )
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King obviously hasn’t lost his touch – his latest book sold in the millions.
lost...track of time
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I just lost all track of time .
sth gets lost in the post
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I'm afraid the cheque must have got lost in the post.
sth has lost a button
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His favourite shirt had lost a button.
your lost youth (= the time long ago when you were young )
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He wept for his lost youth.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be/get lost in the shuffle
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And in our sandwich, the grated cheese, when melted, got lost in the shuffle of the other ingredients.
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The theory, however, broke down; both customers and employees got lost in the shuffle .
give sb up for dead/lost etc
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After much searching, the village people gave Kay up for dead.
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Gray had been missing for over a year, and his wife was ready to give him up for dead.
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It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh.
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On the thirteenth day, Kasturbai knelt before a sacred plant and prayed; she had given him up for lost.
lost in the mists of time
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And, for some reason lost in the mists of time, we need to do that.
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What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem.
make up for lost time
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He's girl crazy! He went to a boys' school and now he's making up for lost time.
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The bus driver was speeding to make up for lost time.
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After a century or so of political apathy, Hong Kong's young people were making up for lost time.
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He was eager to make up for lost time and published prolifically.
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Meanwhile Keith and Mae are settling down to married life, making up for lost time.
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None the less, we immediately started our other meetings to make up for lost time.
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Once I settled into my new life, I did everything I could to make up for lost time.
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Time to make up for lost time.
there is no love lost between sb and sb
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There's no love lost between Bart and Stephen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Front forces, in particular, lost a very high percentage of their best men in 1968.
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He had lost blood profusely and had collapsed.
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I lost my faith when my parents died.
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Phil Gramm of Texas, who lost a presidential primary bid against Dole.
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Read in studio A man severely brain damaged in an operation more than twenty-five years ago, has lost his fight for compensation.
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Thus the would-be entrepreneur can keep drawing benefits, and, if the business fails, they haven't lost out.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
long
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What did Billy Corkin do that Will Carling could never do, he asks long lost friends.
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Meanwhile, the young stylist must find her long lost sister before her wedding on Saturday and time is running out.
■ NOUN
business
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It's thought to have cost the Dickens and Jones department store £100,000 in lost business .
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Sandone said that there were other instances of lost business directly traceable to the suit.
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How much does all this cost you in lost production, lost business opportunities, inefficiency?
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At a recent meeting with bus company representatives councillors and officers were sceptical about the claims in lost business .
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For a large number of firms it also represents a substantial lost business opportunity.
cause
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My patron saint was Saint Jude, the patron of lost causes .
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A lost cause , the old woman reflected sadly.
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Stand by your principles but don't waste time on lost causes .
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All credit to Bann, though for not shutting-up-shop on an already lost cause as Mark Carson pegged it back.
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It's seems that their marriage is a lost cause in which possess the husband and wife not real affection for one another.
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But they are not completely lost causes .
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When he took his second 6 at the ninth after tangling with bushes, he looked a lost cause .
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In one sense, Mentmore was a lost cause even before we began.
child
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Which is why Caroline likes nursing him as if he were still a lost child .
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The Old Slann had fallen, leaving their lost children to battle the daemons alone.
earnings
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The lost earnings should be calculated tax year by tax year and the appropriate rates of tax adopted.
ground
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It marked a recovery of lost ground rather than any significant advance to new territory.
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Merchant bank Warburg also lost ground , down 45p to 479p after a 44% slump in half-year profits to £51m.
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Never mind, say market optimists: the first quarter of 1991 promises to make up much lost ground .
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The recent price recovery can not make up for that much lost ground .
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Hambros also lost ground , down 11p at 233p, after a 34% drop in interim figures.
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Fellow stores groups also lost ground as dealers decided the euphoria about the New Year sales had been overdone.
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However, such was A Smooth One's superiority that she quickly made up the lost ground to score by four lengths.
job
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If the stock level is consistently too low, lost sales may eventually lead to lost jobs .
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It was a great way to get revenge for various slights, lost jobs , bad reviews or even undeserved success.
life
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In it's place a memorial to their lost lives .
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Rather than recovering lost languages, John Friedman is recovering lost lives .
love
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Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend, and after three years he's still obsessed with the search for his lost love .
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Shelley felt the familiar pang of heartache and lost love as their eyes met.
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And oh Fergus, my dear, lost love , am I doing you so much harm?
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It had proved quite an exciting substitute for lost love , and a pacifier in that time of grave trouble.
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Assuming the form of the lost love , the spirit comes in a dream to sexually possess the abandoned one.
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But all the time he himself was carrying his own torch for a lost love .
money
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Norton did sell nearly 200 bikes in the year 1989-1990, but lost money on every one of them.
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The Obey bill also aimed to directly limit PACs and to create public finance in order to replace lost money .
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With both of these, you'd have lost money , but they are exceptions.
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Judge Keith Matthewman said it was a well-planned scheme and if it had worked thousands of people would have lost money .
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I had published several small books myself, but I always lost money .
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We continued to cut costs and still lost money .
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Grade had overstretched himself and lost money heavily on box office flops such as Raise the Titanic and biblical epics.
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Relying on these reports, Hedley Byrne incurred expenditure and lost money when its customer went into liquidation.
opportunity
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As a seasoned business traveller I am constantly amazed at all the lost opportunities to build customer loyalty.
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But he missed his chance, and spent the next seven years trying to catch up on his lost opportunity .
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One of these was the rule of lost opportunity or effective last chance.
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Taking things for granted or failing to seek new understanding indicates a lost opportunity for adding to the store of experience.
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Chaplin's non-appearance before the UnAmerican Activities Committee was one of the great lost opportunities of both their careers.
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And of course they will suffer consequences - at the very least those of wasted time and lost opportunities .
production
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By November 1984 the strike had cost 55.5 million tonnes of coal in lost production .
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Such closures could cost mine companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost production .
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Bird damage costs farmers millions of pounds a year in lost production .
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How much does all this cost you in lost production , lost business opportunities, inefficiency?
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People eat more chocolate in winter; and we've a fortnight's lost production to make up.
productivity
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Sickness absence is a big problem both in terms of lost productivity and cost and in terms of employees' wellbeing.
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The restrictions on job-placement tests may be costing billions of dollars annually in lost productivity .
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Alcohol abuse undoubtedly has a cost, through treatment, accidents and lost productivity .
property
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He looks like lost property now.
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Since plaintiffs naturally inclined to value their lost property exorbitantly, defendants did have reason to think seriously about restoring it.
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Basically the police will regard the child as lost property to be returned as soon as possible.
revenue
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Firms within enterprise zones would not pay rates for ten years, local government being reimbursed for lost revenue by the Treasury.
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The inducement to give is greater, but by the same token there is a cost to the Exchequer in lost revenue .
sale
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When Bogdanov refused, Mr Goddard said he intended to charge the company at least £1,650 to cover lost sales .
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It was estimated that the disruption cost retailers around £5m in lost sales .
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Damaged stock means lost sales , and lost sales mean less profit.
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If the stock level is consistently too low, lost sales may eventually lead to lost jobs.
sight
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Despite the injustice, he never lost sight of his love for football, winning two shields at inter-prison soccer matches.
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McCready had watched him enter the corridor between the two border posts, then lost sight of him.
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The glider pilot was dazzled for a moment and lost sight of the tug.
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And even in the very last analysis, those participant accounts must not be entirely lost sight of.
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This positive facilitating function should not be lost sight of in our study of the negative controlling function.
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You see, she never lost sight of her dream and everyone was welcome to share it.
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Despite his international acclaim, Prof Gibson never lost sight of his roots.
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Still, she never lost sight of the smaller details that made the operation run smoothly.
soul
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The howling wind outside sounded like the wailing of lost souls .
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Those lost souls are so impoverished that they shave their heads in order that they may rub alcohol into them.
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And Sam Spiro - he had been like a lost soul since his wife died.
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There were some poor lost souls last week at the Ordnance Survey office in Chester.
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They were the voices of lost souls , all taking their lead from the one voice that had spoken Cardiff's name.
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Yet somehow she was very much part of the group and her loudness underlined yet another lost soul .
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Imagine her delight when a lost soul returns, through her good offices, to the fold.
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A few lost souls wander aimlessly down to the front and stare up at Bono's frantic, manic animation, briefly bemused.
time
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Also, strikes are responsible for an almost negligible amount of lost time compared with total hours worked by the employed population.
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He was eager to make up for lost time and published prolifically.
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None the less, we immediately started our other meetings to make up for lost time .
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Contractor recordable and lost time accident rates were also a fraction of the industry average.
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After a century or so of political apathy, Hong Kong's young people were making up for lost time .
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Breakdowns were the major causes of lost time and extra work.
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Meanwhile Keith and Mae are settling down to married life, making up for lost time .
world
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The new novel usually starts from where one is, seldom from a vision of a lost world or future utopia.
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It's a lost world now - lost as Conan Doyle's!
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After what she had gone through she knew she could not reconstruct the universe, only recapture her own lost world .
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These latter writers were trying to re-enter the lost world of childhood after first discarding the traditional concept of the afterlife.
youth
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The whole house smelled of it, of lost youth shrivelled up into a kind of dust.
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It is for ourselves and our lost youth we weep.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Did you understand him?" "No, I'm completely lost ."
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a lost dog
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a lost tourist
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Divers are searching for the plane's lost flight recorder.
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I've looked everywhere for the car keys. I think they must be lost .
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My keys are lost again.
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New computer systems could save us millions of dollars in lost time.
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Several good business opportunities have been lost .
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the lost dreams of her youth
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You haven't gotten my letter yet? It must have gotten lost in the mail.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Never mind, say market optimists: the first quarter of 1991 promises to make up much lost ground.
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Of course, you might live perfectly happily together but you might also hanker for your lost independence.
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Such closures could cost mine companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost production.
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The lost or damaged car will then belong to us.