adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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I took a tramcar a second time; when it stopped I saw a long queue of mostly Black men.
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The criminal trial jury was mostly black .
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The clientele was elegant and mostly black , men in beautifully tailored white suits, well-dressed women.
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The participants, mostly black males, were criticized for following Farrakhan, who has been accused of anti-Semitism.
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Its village is most attractive, with mostly black and white buildings.
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Peachtree Street, the main shopping thoroughfare, links the mostly white side of town with the mostly black side.
white
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Jack Russell terriers are mostly white with variable colour markings.
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These little creatures are mostly white , in the tradition of the popular white child-like Snowbabies.
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Peachtree Street, the main shopping thoroughfare, links the mostly white side of town with the mostly black side.
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Diversify the mostly white federal judiciary.
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The mostly white jury deliberated for three days before returning its verdicts.
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Washington the landmark is mostly white , affluent, politically connected and frightened by the violence of the home town.
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Compton still felt to me like a quiet, mostly white suburb with narrow cement streets shaded by carob trees.
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She was in a law school class waiting for the teacher to arrive, surrounded by mostly white classmates.
young
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Finally, on entering work of any kind except domestic service, she would find herself among mostly young women.
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Restless cars and people, mostly young , roved aimlessly, exploring the summer night.
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They weren't very conventional, they were mostly younger and were into being public and talking about it.
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The millwrights, mostly young , motorcyclists, listen with respect.
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They must have assembled in a side street and now they were here, mostly young and apparently in fairly good mood.
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Witzke points out that his funeral home staff is mostly young and about half are women.
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The congregation was mostly young , unmarried, well-educated and upwardly mobile.
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More slaves were arrested, mostly young men with a history of troublemaking.
■ VERB
use
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The Faculty has a number of scholarships which are used mostly to support research students.
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But like the IBM-compatible platform, it uses mostly off-the-shelf parts.
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Soft haired brushes are mostly used for watercolour or tempera painting, with bristle mainly for oils.
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Set gill-nets are much shorter, and are used mostly in shallow coastal seas, where they are anchored to the seabed.
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In practice, the word seems to be used mostly to refer to animal sonar.
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Pre-school facilities in general are mostly used by children of middle-class parents.
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At present, admittedly, triticale is mostly used for animal feed.
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They were mostly used to discriminate between doubtful grammar school entrants.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mostly , we talk about the kids.
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He mostly writes novels, but he's published a book of poetry too.
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I do mostly secretarial-type work.
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I drink sugar-free colas, mostly .
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The people at the theater were mostly college students.
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The students here are mostly Swiss and German, but sometimes we get a few Japanese, too.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But mostly the songs are universal enough to apply to lots of people.
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In fact, Owen was thinking mostly about Zeinab.
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It's mostly old people, which means our communities are dying.
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Most homes in town get some water in their basements, mostly due to seepage from the rain.
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The 11 men they arrested were mostly footsoldiers: the generals were among the 12 women also caught.
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The birds are mostly static, and still shown in profile - a single figure on each page with no background.
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The computer mostly makes the choice.
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The fog now had mostly lifted.