noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
black-water rafting
life raft
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
whole
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There will be a whole raft of changes that come with the change in network structure.
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Putting together some of the best minds of the times unleashed a whole raft of new work.
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We polled whole rafts of them to get their comments on our birthday.
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Businesses would lose a whole raft of deductions, including those for employee benefits such as health care.
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It also creates a whole raft of sub-directories for the various additions you may, or may not, have bought!
■ NOUN
bamboo
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His 60-foot bamboo raft will have a crew of five or six people.
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The same was true of our bamboo raft .
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But the bamboo raft ploughed forward smoothly.
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But they were not looking out for a small, insignificant speck of a slow-moving bamboo raft .
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At seventy-five feet Sea Dragon had been larger than Hsu Fu and a much more substantial vessel than a flimsy bamboo raft .
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After a few days on shore I had forgotten just how flexible was our bamboo raft .
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In short, he was ideally suited for long-distance sailing on an increasingly waterlogged bamboo raft .
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It would only test whether the bamboo raft could have been a vehicle for such contact.
life
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As soon as his life raft boomed into the sea, Delaney pulled the quick release tag and dropped from his harness.
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She is the person most centered on the child since the moment he held on to her like another life raft .
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He greeted Collingridge's downfall like a drowning man discovers a life raft .
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Men who hold tenaciously to a life raft may expect to he cast upon strange shores among strange companions.
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For McKenzie, the tide had turned again and he watched helplessly as his life raft drifted back over the horizon.
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In the middle of the store, dangling by nylon wires from the ceiling, was an orange rubber life raft .
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Finally one end of the hawser was fastened to the bank, and the makeshift life raft was dispatched.
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The cabin is gouged open, spilling out wooden crates, twisted pieces of metal, a blown-up life raft .
race
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On November 12 is a sponsored raft race on the Mersey.
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Read in studio Eight hundred competitors will be taking to the water this weekend for the annual River Wye raft race .
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Countdown to great Wye raft race .
■ VERB
build
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When I was still very young I built myself a raft from old planks and oil-drums.
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If I built the raft with infected bamboo the vessel would turn to powder within weeks.
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The houses had been built on a concrete raft on an infilled site.
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They were the work crew Mr Khiem had assigned to build the test raft .
leave
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Everyone was noticeably quieter, each man thinking about the chances of whether we would be forced to leave the raft .
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He must have understood what was being discussed, but he gave no sign that he really wanted to leave the raft .
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To stay on Hsu Fu or to leave the raft should be a decision reviewed on a daily basis.
sail
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Five minutes later we were sailing through rafts of them only feet from the boat.
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The horizon was speckled with the triangular sails of literally hundreds of sailing rafts .
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But the bamboo sailing rafts needed less than a foot of water to float, and came gliding right into the shallows.
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Had he seen any sailing rafts ?
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Have you seen a sailing raft ? they enquired by radio.
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Yes, bamboo sailing rafts did still exist at Sam Son.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A raft of foreign-owned firms have built new factories.
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Closing a raft of useless federal establishments will get rid of only some 80,000 of them.
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He greeted Collingridge's downfall like a drowning man discovers a life raft .
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She needed a proper boat, not a raft .
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The raft is built and on its way.
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The waves which lapped over the stern of the raft were our waste-disposal system.
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When the raft bumped on the sand, the fishermen could step ashore only knee deep in the water.
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When you move abroad you face a raft of financial decisions, including which type of bank account to open.