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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
spent...working life
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He spent all his working life in a factory.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
force
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They write off Ireland as a spent force , which in my experience is a foolish thing to do.
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But after four consecutive General Election defeats, is Labour a spent force ?
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On the other hand, it would be a mistake to conclude that the urban-rural shift is a spent force .
fuel
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Sometime this year the North will start unloading and replacing spent fuel from a large reactor at Yongbyon.
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Its flies, the spent fuel , arrive regularly inside special containers on goods trains from nuclear reactors all over the country.
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Reprocessing of overseas spent fuel is a proper and appropriate business for Dounreay.
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A Green Party spokesman said that spent fuel rods are highly radioactive and potentially lethal.
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In other words, Dounreay has agreed to store the spent fuel from research reactors for four years.
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If you have to pay to reprocess the plutonium from spent fuel , though, it does not.
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If the spent fuel can not be reprocessed, alternative dry storage is needed.
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Reprocessing is a highly technically demanding and extremely expensive operation, involving the extraction of uranium and plutonium from the spent fuel .
time
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He'd obviously spent time here, perhaps as much as he could spare before their marriage.
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He also spent time at Grantham and Gainsborough for production training.
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While there, he naturally spent time at the dyeworks; and twice, he had made the longer journey to Kouklia.
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He went to Haarlem and spent time with his sister Wil, walking about with her but not confiding anything.
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She specialised in tax and spent time as a manager at Edelman's Croydon office.
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Napoleon actually spent time at the villa, staying there with Josephine.
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In fact, over 5.7 million people spent time in hospital in 1989 alone.
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As he progressed in the company, Sir Adrian also spent time out in the field selling.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Spent bullet shells littered the ground.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Couldn't tell unless I went back to look for spent arrows, which I wasn't going to do.
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Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods increases the volume of waste and should be undertaken only when necessary for safety reasons.
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The general opinion was that it had fizzled out; like a spent squib, it hadn't even given one burst.