adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a diet high/rich in sth (= which contains a lot of something )
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In the West many people eat a diet high in fat and salt.
a good/excellent/rich source (= a source that provides a lot of something )
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Milk is a good source of calcium.
a rich colour (= strong and beautiful or expensive-looking )
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I love the rich colours in oriental rugs.
a rich variety
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A rich variety of plants grow here.
a rich vein of
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In voicing our fear of old age, Rivers has discovered a rich vein of comedy.
a rich/wealthy nation
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Most tourists come from the wealthy nations of the world.
be rich in resources
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Swaziland is rich in natural resources.
die a hero/rich man etc
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He died a hero on the battlefield.
fertile/rich (= good for growing crops )
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The land near the river is very fertile.
good/rich/fertile (= good for growing plants )
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The fertile soil produces delicious wines.
life’s rich tapestry
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This was all new to her – part of life’s rich tapestry .
new rich
rich brown
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a rich brown colour
rich history (= an interesting and important history )
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Greece has a very rich history.
rich in minerals
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The area is very rich in minerals .
rich pickings (= a lot of money )
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There were rich pickings to be had from the stock market.
rich rewards (= great rewards )
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Top athletes can expect rich rewards if they win.
rich (= strong and pleasant )
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The brown sugar makes the flavour especially rich.
the rich and famous
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a nightclub used by the rich and famous
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Was our friend Sir Vivien as rich as he pretended?
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We are all lumped together and stereotyped as rich .
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However these products tend not to be as rich in calcium as dairy products and red fish.
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The harmony is in fact remarkably smooth throughout the piece, and is as rich and vital as one could wish.
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I don't find the whole situation as rich in humour as he does.
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And if pain is wealth, then all of us, apart from Liverpool fans, are as rich as Croesus.
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This sibling confection is steamed, not baked, nutty and almost as rich .
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A day-dream is as rich a gift as any.
so
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Did e'er such love and sorrow meet Or thorns compose so rich a crown?
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Computer-related stocks that once made everyone feel so rich have been falling since September.
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Vela is crossed by the Milky Way, though it is not so rich as Carina.
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This is a shame in a book so rich in ideas and so virtuoso in its handling of specialist terminology.
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And they are so rich , I couldn't finish both of mine and had to take one home.
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We are witnessing the birth of a civilization which nurtures ideas and creativity precisely because it is so rich in diversity.
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But they would not be so rich if they were not adept at minimising tax and maximising profits.
too
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Try not to adulterate such healthy basics with too rich a dressing.
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You can never be too rich , too talented or have too many rooms in Las Vegas.
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In the liberal view, the historical process is altogether too rich and complex to be reduced to class struggle.
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According to the Duchess of Windsor, one can never be too rich or too thin.
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Tastes almost too rich with the spices and brandy.
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The saying, is you can never be too rich or too thin.
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I use grapeseed oil for mayonnaise, finding that olive oil gives too rich a flavour.
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His partner was just too rich .
very
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He was earning well and might have become a very rich lawyer.
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Malbis Castle has a very rich history.
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The problem is that too many very rich people and companies do not pay their fair share of tax.
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He was by this point a very rich financier; he was elected alderman in 1649 and sheriff in 1651 and 1652.
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And perhaps like any very rich person turned to research, she decided to buy the papers.
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But a number of individuals, often close to the seat of government, became very rich .
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Starting with nothing, he has become very , very rich and very, very famous, and very, very powerful.
■ NOUN
country
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The world's richest countries also showed a slowdown.
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Labor-intensive prod-ucts were made in poor countries; capital-intensive products were made in rich countries .
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In the 1970s, when declining profitability caused plant closures in the industrialized North, they constituted cheap labour for richer countries .
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I felt angry that this kind of suffering could go on right here in the richest country in the world.
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The arguments are moral: the rich countries owe a debt for the ravaged resources of the Third World.
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Capital-intensive products are not automatically made in rich countries .
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They are demanding that richer countries cut back their carbon emissions to compensate.
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It was always about advancing the economic interests of the rich living in the rich countries .
man
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He had received a special trading privilege from Rudolf in 1592 and became the richest man in Prague.
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In her tenement there lived a rich man .
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Ah, yes: this was what it felt like to be a rich man .
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He is now an extraordinarily rich man with a private fortune estimated at £4 billion, largely derived from oil smuggling.
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Narcissus was the richest man of his day.
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His material fortunes always seemed to be less stable than those of most rich men .
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The rich man and his family refused, of course, and beat the father.
nation
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They symbolized all the money that was around, the flamboyance expected of the richest nation on earth.
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Around the globe, the richer nations have made easing the overcrowding of third world cities a top aid priority.
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The education target is in even more danger unless richer nations act. / Happy as Lowry?
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In 1993, for every dollar given in aid rich nations took back three in debt repayments.
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The Soviet Union has the potential to be one of the richest nations on earth.
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While poor countries have liberalised their markets, rich nations have remained protectionist, especially in areas such as textiles and agriculture.
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Encouragement and funding by richer nations could establish more national parks, essential for preserving the many different kinds of forest.
people
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It does not matter much whether the government taxes the incomes of rich people or taxes the goods that rich people buy.
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Over the next two years, Congress learned that rich people do not have to buy yachts; their demand is elastic.
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A large project like the power station will not benefit these people , but richer people can afford the appliances and electricity.
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As he rose in the county bureaucracy, rich people brought him gifts to stay on his good side.
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During the plague, the rich people and most of the ministers who had remained in the established church fled from London.
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The problem is that too many very rich people and companies do not pay their fair share of tax.
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Except for a very few rich people , they are all financially much less well off than they were.
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Poor people go to work; rich people go to college.
pickings
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Or life may be regarded as a battlefield fit for conquerors, with rich pickings for the strong.
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So - if only they can overcome the obvious difficulties, inter-tidal creatures find rich pickings .
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Newley occasionally went there with clients from whom he expected rich pickings .
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It would have yielded particularly rich pickings .
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A satirist, you feel, would find rich pickings under such circumstances, and indeed Wang Shuo does just that.
source
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Allan's experience as a primary school teacher is another rich source of ideas.
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From these rich sources Earley reconstructs the pursuit.
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Leaves are a rich source of vitamin C and the vitamin is particularly concentrated within chloroplasts, the organelles of photosynthesis.
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Potatoes are a rich source of fat-free complex carbohydrates.
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This documentation is itself a rich source of material for evaluation.
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I had never realized before what a rich source of endorsement and approval mere weight loss could be.
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Tea is a rich source of antioxidants and may form part of a healthy diet.
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Frequently overlooked is the rich source of data already available in office files.
variety
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Changes in the component values, the particular diode, and the source frequency can give a rich variety of observations.
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This rich variety should be preserved, not destroyed, by the gospel.
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It is a day to celebrate the rich variety of people within our parish rather than create unnecessary divisions.
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The Mawddach Estuary has a rich variety of wetland and woodland habitats attracting a wide range of different species.
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A rich variety of plants was found in Central Region ponds, including 68 types of aquatic and 35 wetland plants.
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There are several footpaths around the village, which during the summer months provide a rich variety of flora and fauna.
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The rich variety of geographical environments provides a background to the diversity of ways of life and traditions of the Yugoslav peoples.
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In no area is there a greater need for a rich variety of creative ideas.
vein
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A rich vein of disagreement indeed, offered for eager exploitation by opponents!
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In the United States, what we now recognise as social psychology has always been a rich vein of thought.
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Some areas may provide a rich vein of local history which is also well related to a supplementary unit.
world
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It will be both a richer world and a less expensive one.
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See all the goods the rich world holds.
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The lesson to chess players is more clear-cut: chess turns out to be a much richer world than they thought.
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Change is coming to the rich world , too.
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The rich world keeps the South wedded to commodity production by putting up tariff barriers to manufactured goods.
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And acid rain is killing the fish in lakes across the rich world .
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Nor did the inspirational examples in these early years all come from the rich world .
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As Mark Goodwin shows in the next chapter, they are able to uncover and explore a rich world of local politics.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a (rich) seam of sth
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Along the line of her brow lay a seam of piercing pain.
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He shall make half a seam of malt for one work and the lord shall provide firewood.
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This produced a rich seam of tips, much of it from the artists at the Theatre Royal during rehearsals.
fabulously rich/expensive/successful etc
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And she must have been fabulously rich to live in a house like this.
filthy rich
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Everyone assumed the members at the golf club were filthy rich.
stinking rich
strike it rich
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They're hoping to strike it rich in Las Vegas.
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A camp that strikes it rich in the middle of a depression speaks as urgently to the well-trained as to the untrained.
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And they could strike it rich!
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Efficient-market believers could strike it rich if they could persuade people to give up.
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For a time he really thought he was going to strike it rich.
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Like 49ers infected with gold fever, big communications companies are rushing to the Internet with dreams of striking it rich.
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Small companies strike it rich by going public on the stock exchange.
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Wang told his people that hundreds of them would strike it rich if they followed his marketing techniques.
the idle rich
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He said it was a playground for the idle rich and ought to be used to grow crops for the proletariat.
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The world divided into the idle rich and the labouring poor.
the new rich
too clever/rich/good etc by half
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The arithmetic can not be faulted - and may well be judged too clever by half .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Rich golds and elegant silvers are the colors for this season.
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a rich chocolate cake
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Carnations require sun, rich soil, and even watering.
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Esmeralda was the rich and beautiful daughter of Count Calafato.
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Every year "Fortune" magazine publishes a list of the 100 richest people in America.
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Gates is one of the world's richest men.
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He sang in a deep, rich baritone.
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He spoke in a strong, rich voice.
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Her new boyfriend is very good-looking and very rich .
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His guitar produces a warm, rich sound.
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I admired the warm, rich colors of her Persian rugs.
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Potato plants are easy to grow and do not require rich soil.
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She had a wonderful deep, rich singing voice.
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Spinach is rich in iron and very good for you.
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The horse had a rich chestnut coat.
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The hot sun drew a rich scent from the honeysuckle vines.
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The land in this area is rich in minerals and ideal for growing crops.
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The lead actor's rich voice claimed the attention of the audience.
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The meat was browned to perfection and topped with a rich sauce.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the sporty model, with its bigger tires, felt better in highway twists and turns than its richer sibling.
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Envy of the rich could no longer masquerade as love of the poor.
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Her ambition was to marry a rich man.
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It is not the very poor and it is not the very rich .
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Palaces and rich houses all over town are echoing emptily now.
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Prudence was rich , it began.
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The richer empirical studies, however, have indicated that there are different dimensions of political participation.
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Why go further, especially if it will benefit only the rich at the expense of everyone else?