noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a series/succession of clicks (= several clicks one after another )
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A series of loud clicks came from the car's engine.
in quick succession (= quickly, one after the other )
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Three bombs went off in quick succession .
in rapid succession (= quickly, one after the other )
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Pictures of a man were flashed upon the screen in rapid succession.
line of succession (= the system by which an important position or property is passed from a parent to their children, and then to their children etc )
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Henry the Eighth wanted a male heir to ensure the Tudor line of succession.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
endless
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It has survived an endless succession of changes and locations, some of which no longer exist.
long
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If we examine the RNAs in a long succession of test-tubes, we see what can only be called evolutionary change.
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It involved a long succession of thinkers at different times and places.
quick
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Another ex-Dragon Steve Clark then forced Wood to make two good saves in quick succession .
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Two harpoons are usually thrown in quick succession .
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Double-click - A mouse procedure where the left-hand mouse button is pressed twice in quick succession .
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Her neediness drove her into marriage at a young age, and she gave birth to four children in quick succession .
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I entered the woods just as three mortar explosions occurred in quick succession , somewhere in the trees a short distance away.
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Events moved in quick succession during these months.
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Steelwork and the cladding followed in quick succession .
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Three moves followed in quick succession .
rapid
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That was the first wonderful release, others were to follow in rapid succession .
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There, during an eight-year period in the late 1970s and early 1980s, large trees began dying in rapid succession .
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Following him, there was a rapid succession of occupants.
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When a user browses the Web, objects are retrieved in rapid succession from often widely dispersed servers.
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Increasingly, the tendency is to work for a large number of companies in rapid succession .
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I stood fearfully against a board as in rapid succession the knives flashed through the air and encircled my body.
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Female red-legged partridges and Temminck's stints produce two clutches in very rapid succession .
whole
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And great engineering heights would be scaled in the whole succession of Andean railways.
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A whole succession of prairie branches was built to develop settlement and to tap the furthest reaches of the grain-growing areas.
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It had been built in 1876 and consisted of a whole succession of low-roofed, dormer-windowed, gabled buildings.
■ VERB
ensure
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Arguably unlike Chlothild in 511 and certainly unlike Fredegund, Aregund may have played no part in ensuring her son's succession .
follow
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That was the first wonderful release, others were to follow in rapid succession .
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There followed a succession of minor criminal offences, mostly against youngsters with whom he shared lodgings.
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Three moves followed in quick succession .
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There followed a succession of delicious Delhi kebabs rounded off with fruit chaat: a kind of spicy fruit salad.
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Emptiness and fullness follow one another in succession , moving from above to below, from the heavenly to the terrestrial.
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At Devonshire Square, toastracks follow in quick succession !
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Like many rich kids, Georgie was raised by a succession of underpaid nannies.
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The project has had a succession of legal problems.
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We lost four important games in succession .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A succession of situations each one more impossible than the last, may be what will best serve you.
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His elder brother Edwin was next in succession to the baronetcy, but he was a total invalid.
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Increasingly, the tendency is to work for a large number of companies in rapid succession .
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Next in succession came the dinner preparation.
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One of the prime differences between the systems is in the practicalities of succession .
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There followed a succession of minor criminal offences, mostly against youngsters with whom he shared lodgings.
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There is no clear succession , for example.
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Thus high office remains accessible to a relatively wide range of royal kin and commoners wield significant power over the succession .