noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a 20-minute/6-month/4-week etc delay
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A train had broken down, causing a two-hour delay.
a six month/five year etc period
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They studied the behaviour of the ocean during a five year period.
be four weeks/three months etc in arrears
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The rent money is two months in arrears.
calendar month
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Salaries will be paid at the end of the calendar month.
each day/week/month etc (= on each day, in each week etc )
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a disease that affects about 10 million people each year
every day/week/month etc (= at least once on each day, in each week etc )
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They see each other every day.
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Richard visits his mother every week.
give sb six months/three years etc (= in prison )
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The judge gave her two years in prison.
good for one month/a year etc
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Your passport is good for another three years.
hardly a day/week/month etc goes by without/when (= used to say that something happens almost every day, week etc )
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Hardly a month goes by without another factory closing down.
hardly a day/week/month etc goes by
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Hardly a week goes by without some food scare being reported in the media.
have two weeks/six months etc to live
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He knows he’s only got a few months to live.
in recent years/months/times etc
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The situation has improved in recent years.
inside the hour/month etc (= before an hour, month etc has passed )
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We’ll be back inside the hour.
jail sb for two months/six years/life etc
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They ought to jail her killer for life.
lunar month
preceding days/weeks/months/years
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income tax paid in preceding years
six months/a year etc in advance
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Book tickets 21 days in advance.
spend time/three months/six years etc in jail
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Griffiths spent three days in jail after pushing a policeman.
the early days/months/years of sth (= the period of time near the beginning of something )
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In the early years of our marriage, we lived with my wife’s parents.
the end of the day/week/month etc
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Karen’s returning to the States at the end of the month.
the ensuing days/months/years etc (= the days, months etc after an event )
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The situation deteriorated over the ensuing weeks.
the middle of the week/month/year etc
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Everything should be sorted out by the middle of next year.
the summer months
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The garden is open daily in the summer months.
the winter months
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During the winter months the town is often cut off.
the years/days/months etc ahead
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We do not foresee any major changes in the years ahead.
three years/two months etc back (= three years ago etc )
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His wife died a couple of years back.
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He called me a while back .
twelve weeks pregnant/two months pregnant etc
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The doctor said that she was eight weeks pregnant.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
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These early months gave him a brutally clear idea of what lay ahead.
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This happened once in my early months at the Department of Health and Social Security.
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In the early months of 1944, Bomber Command losses hit an all-time high.
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The industrial scene thus looked much more alarming in the early months of 1 978.
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His engagements in the early months of 1942 were equally arduous.
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April Finish pruning early in the month .
following
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Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father's arm.
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But the following month saw a renewed wave of strikes paralyse St Petersburg, Moscow and many provincial cities.
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The following month 14 fans were injured when Feyenoord fans threw fragmentation bombs at Ajax supporters at a game in Amsterdam.
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During the following months we started to distribute basic medical material to dispensaries, health centres, and hospitals in a few districts.
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Over the following months , de Gaulle assumed total control over political affairs and substantially reduced Giraud's authority as Commander-in-Chief.
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In July 1982, he fell ill and the following month his fellow directors decided in his absence to sack him.
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The shares opened at a discount of 110p on the issue price of £3.50 but recovered strongly in the following months .
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The following months were very busy, and included extensive individual consultations with all members of staff.
last
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Some signs of his own frustration had emerged at a conference on the constitution last month .
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Less humorously, thousands of teachers, unpaid for six months or more, marched in Moscow last month.
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A police spokeswoman said the outbreak was not connected to racial violence in nearby Oldham last month .
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The special prosecutor last month asked the Supreme Court to turn aside the White House appeal over the attorneys' notes.
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At least that was the expectation as 8,000 people gathered in a vast, beautiful hall in London last month .
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When the world descended on Sydney last month it was with trepidation.
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A poll last month indicated that 70 percent of Arizonans favor a state law to halt cockfight gambling.
past
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In the past six months while they've been in prison doctors have been battling to save thir victim's eyes.
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For the past nine months it has been involved in a nightly Royal Mail operation out of the airport.
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Over the past 18 months we have launched a number of products offering opportunities for existing customers.
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The number of unsolicited companies approaching the office with offers of help in the past twelve months has been impressive.
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The government's calamities over the past 12 months have rocked the Tory faithful.
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If it is, it will bring the total of drug deaths in Strathclyde to more than 70 over the past 15 months .
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That policy has been manifestly successful over the past 12 months in reducing the rate of inflation to 3.7 percent.
previous
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Sales volumes fell 0.2% in June compared with the previous month .
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J., the previous month on drug charges, and that she had fingered Felix as her cocaine facilitator.
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That enabled it to boost pre-tax profits to March 31 to £101.4m from £65.7m in the previous 12 months .
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But he fell ill the previous month and had to cancel.
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Active smoking; active drinking Presently consuming or consumed in the previous 12 months .
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The pace of growth in new auto loans also lost momentum from the previous month .
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According to industry estimates, sales of nablabs last year were down by 25 percent overall on the previous 12 months .
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The previous month he had four, one as I told you lasting for hours.
recent
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In recent months he has made two major speeches in Parliament on the subject.
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Typically this column provides regular updates on earnings over the most recent 12 month period.
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His high profile in recent months and obvious bid for the party presidency have amounted to nothing.
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Furniture was smashed and fists flew in the most serious trouble at the Maze in recent months .
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About 40 stags are reported to have disappeared in recent months .
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In recent months , the industry has been whingeing and moaning.
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In recent months he accepted his increasing illness with an admirable fortitude and resignation.
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Their agony in recent months and years has been terrible to behold.
■ VERB
jail
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But when magistrates told her she'd be jailed for three months , she collapsed in the dock.
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But Judge Leo Clark told him: Walker was jailed for nine months and banned from the driving for two years.
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Osbourne, of Wallasey, who won £12,000, was jailed for six months by Liverpool Crown Court.
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Arthurs, 33, of Exeter, was jailed for nine months after admitting causing grievous bodily harm.
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The man, from Wrexham, was jailed for nine months after admitting cruelty.
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He was sacked from the Mint - and was jailed for nine months at Cardiff Crown Court yesterday.
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A driving examiner has been jailed for four months for indecently assaulting four women test candidates.
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He drew the sword and stabbed his attacker, Martin Day, who was later jailed for 18 months .
spend
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Just before the revolution he spent seven months in detention chained to a wall.
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She spends $ 100 a month in long-distance phone bills right now.
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The directors and actors had spent months in zoos recording the noises made by apes in emotional situations.
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Most of the money was spent within a month of the escape.
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Two people were killed, and Broderick spent one month in a Belfast hospital.
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Sarah, 19, had gone home for Christmas after spending three lonely months at Surrey University.
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I go out on a blitz and then tend to spend nothing for months .
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He had spent the past few months noting down all the sightings and rumours of the Bookman's movements.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I give it six weeks/a month etc
as little as £5/3 months/10 feet etc
be five/six/seven etc months gone
days turned into weeks/months turned into years etc
flavour of the month
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But Portillo is fast becoming flavour of the month and will increasingly find himself in the public eye.
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But the flavour of the month was no flavour at all.
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He is never one to go for gimmicks or flavour of the month hairdressing.
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I roll the flavour of the month round in my mouth.
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Nicholson and Hopper suddenly became the flavour of the month.
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Not the flavour of the month exactly, especially with your own people.
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Promotion is the new non flavour of the month.
months/weeks/ages yet
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But it could be several weeks yet before these children know the fate of their school.
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I know it will not be for some months yet , but time passes quickly.
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Indeed, it may beaver for many months yet .
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It was to last for some months yet .
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It will probably be some months yet before we get the final government reaction to our proposals.
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Sometimes they took little dancing steps, as their blood responded to rhythms that their descendants would not create for ages yet .
once a week/once every three months etc
take home £120 per week/$600 a month etc
ten days hence/five months hence etc
the day/week/month etc before
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And he also had long discussions with the actors when they rehearsed the dialogue during the week before shooting began.
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Barbara Walters found time the week before her swirl of Inaugural engagements as the date of Sen.
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Even the day before the King died!
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If she laid at dawn, like most birds, she would have to have prepared the day before .
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That is equivalent to the day before Thanksgiving, Black Wednesday, in industry parlance.
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The final winner will be announced the week before Super Bowl.
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The move came the day before high school players are allowed to sign letters-of-intent with college programs.
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The observers of gonorrhoea in the days before effective treatment was available vividly described the symptoms of acute gonococcal urethritis.
the following afternoon/month/page/chapter etc
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And she had returned the following afternoon, carrying Timmy on her hip and the rest of her possessions in a backpack.
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Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father's arm.
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Expansion and application of some of those ideas will be pursued in the following chapters.
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I describe experiments making use of this criterion in the following chapter.
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In the following chapters, I emphasize what can be done, not what will be done.
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The receiving company went into liquidation the following month.
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We examine these recurrent themes in the managers' first-year biographies in the following pages.
the intervening years/months/period etc
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But some underlying patterning remains, despite the intervening years and the subtle shifts in values and beliefs.
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I wanted to look young when I met my brother, perhaps because I had accomplished nothing in the intervening years.
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In the intervening years, as property taxes ate away at their nest egg, their proposals for other developments fell flat.
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Over the intervening years the inter-action and travelling of these eight aircraft is intricate.
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Recounting the matter in present time-without being returned-the patient is using all the intervening years as buffers against the painful emotion.
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Some time, then, during the intervening years, he had been granted a barony.
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The answer depends, to some degree, on the effectiveness of those who have been active in the intervening years.
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To occupy the intervening months she took a job in a hospital.
time of the month
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Even the time of the month can not be blamed for women's tendency to depression.
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She was worrying that they'd made love at the wrong time of the month.
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Surely not the time of the month?
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This is a safe time of the month for me.
two weeks/a month etc short of sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It snowed heavily during the month of January.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A month earlier it reported losing $ 250 million in 1995 and said it was cutting 100 jobs.
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At that time he had been a practising Catholic for two or three months.
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I told you all about it on July 12, two months ago.
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In this industry, none has been brought in the past six months.
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Last month , the appeal court had heard fresh evidence from two witnesses not called to give evidence at Smith's trial.
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My daughter's now 10 months old and I still haven't started my periods again.
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The actor can play a different person each month and still be considered a good actor.