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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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string
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There was a party in the ballroom: sparkling chandeliers, string quartet .
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Remember those glittering parties, the lanterns lining the drive, the string quartet playing Viennese waltzes?
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Jacqui watched from a distance as they drank iced coffee and danced to the string quartet .
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Mind has waited for 3 billion years on this planet before composing its first string quartet .
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Howarth has got a string quartet going at the Lab and they gave a concert there.
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The string quartet within the orchestra resembles Faure.
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If he wanted to hear a string quartet there was no question of going out in the evening to a concert.
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Stravinsky was never at home with the warm homogeneity of the string quartet .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a jazz quartet
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All over the country children worked in similar acts but this particular quartet , Les Jolies Petites, was fortunate.
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If the Hummel sparkled, their E flat Dvorak piano quartet - a riot of Czechoslovak charm - fairly glinted with riches.
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There was a barbershop quartet on board.