I. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
start
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Well, he had to start sometime .
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It started sometime in the high Middle Ages with the invention of harmony.
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It started sometime in March, not long after Eric's arrival.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It's a long story. I'll tell you about it sometime .
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The burglary must have happened sometime after 8:00.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He knows Spunk's going to have to have his name fixed sometime .
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I could see myself just planning on going away for a weekend sometime and not planning on where until the last minute.
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Ideally, Brown said, the city should host the Super Bowl in a new football stadium, sometime shortly after 1999.
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Lucy, um, I wondered if you'd like to come over for dinner sometime , like tonight.
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Navy officials say they are fixing the manning problems but expect the shortages of skilled sailors to continue until sometime in 1999.
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One week, two week., three week, we walk in jungle, sometime up, sometime down.
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Photographs from the 1870S showed such a bird on the courthouse fountain, but sometime during the 1920S it had disappeared.
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Reform is overdue and will come - sometime .
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Downey's uncle is a sometime actor and screenwriter.
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Duval spoke at the funeral of his friend and sometime rival.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After the accusation, they are worried-sick parents, small-town pariahs, amateur lawyers, sometime sleuths, etc.
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Eventually he gained admission to the company and became a director and sometime governor.
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He was a sometime master of hypnotism.
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Nora and Delia, now a sometime writing team, escaped to New York.
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The second volume, according to Duncombe, was edited by Isaac Hawkins Browne, a poet and sometime member of parliament.