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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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great
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Not until the late nineteenth century, the era of the great amateur naturalists , was the catalogue complete.
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Reaumur was also one of the great naturalists of his time.
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Audubon had not been the first naturalist to describe the frontier.
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But this still left certain questions unanswered, and many naturalists did not accept the Darwinian approach to the question.
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Eigg, measuring just five miles by three, is treasured by walkers and naturalists alike.
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I wouldn't like to say I was born a naturalist , but I can remember collecting fossils when I was three.
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Its thickly wooded shores, pastoral rivers and mercurial weather draw naturalists and artists.
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Peter sat in the studio with a guest naturalist who had brought with him his own bits of film.
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The naturalist in the field might not even have seen his specimens alive, but have acquired corpses from local people.