I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a spring/summer etc evening
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On a summer evening, the streets are full of people.
a spring/summer/autumn/winter flower
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The mountainsides were blanketed with spring flowers.
a summer breeze
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He felt the soft summer breeze against his skin.
a summer dress
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a cool blue summer dress
a summer holiday
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They were going to a house on the coast for their summer holidays.
a summer vacation
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What did you do on your summer vacation?
a summer/winter etc morning
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They set off on a beautiful spring morning.
a weekend/summer cottage (= that the owners go to at weekends or in the summer )
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They live in London but they also have a weekend cottage by the sea.
a winter/summer storm
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People fear there may be more flooding when the winter storms hit.
British Summer Time
early spring/summer etc
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These plants produce flowers from early spring to late summer.
Indian summer
summer camp
summer holidays
summer pudding
summer school
summer solstice
summer vacation
the spring/summer/autumn term
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Mrs Collins will be leaving us at the end of the summer term.
the spring/summer/autumn/winter sunshine
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She was sitting in the garden, enjoying the spring sunshine.
the summer heat
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He went indoors to escape the summer heat.
the summer/autumn/winter/spring months
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It's very cold here during the winter months.
the summer/winter sky
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Her eyes were as blue as the summer sky.
the summer/winter solstice (= the longest or shortest day of the year )
winter/summer clothes
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The shops are already full of winter clothes.
winter/summer clothing
winter/summer etc wardrobe (= the clothes you have for a particular time of year )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
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She recollected the way, even backwards and in the early summer greenness.
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Norton had decided as early as the summer of 1882 that the battle was lost.
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When he woke up, stiff and uncomfortable, the early summer dawn was lighting the room.
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In the early summer of 1968 Father Edward Sponga, the provincial, or superior, of the province suddenly disappeared.
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The contract is scheduled to be completed by early summer .
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The river is benign now but will turn into a threatening torrent when the monsoons begin in early summer .
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Bath was more beautiful than ever in the early summer .
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In early summer of 1951, we heard the news we had been waiting for.
high
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Our guests anticipate the end of high summer and the start of autumn.
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Say you were stuck out in the Sonoran wilderness at high noon in summer , lost, thirsty and tired.
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In high summer , provisions were plentiful, but would have to be gathered and loaded.
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But that could be shortened to just two high readings this summer .
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By high summer the downland fields are magnificent blocks of green-headed wheat.
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Plans are to enroll 100 participants from five high schools this summer and then expand the program in future years.
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The high blue summer weather goes on and on and by mid-afternoon it's hot up here under the leads.
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It was high summer , a warm sunny day.
hot
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Often at night that hot summer the new overburdened power plants would give up and die.
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But, I just found it too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter.
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During the hot summers I've had a lot of lettuce and tomato with maybe a bit of fruit.
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I had a conversation with Marjorie Kelly, editor of Business Ethics magazine, on a hot summer morning.
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Another mild spring and long, hot summer ?
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He became increasingly frustrated by his inability to preserve food, especially dairy products, during hot summer months.
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It had been a hot summer , and dust rose from the rough flags as they settled.
last
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Primary national science test results have improved steadily, with 78 per cent of pupils reaching the required standard last summer .
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When Eddie and I went to the fair last summer , you laughed at us.
late
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The beauty of that late summer came to seem, finally, quite bizarre.
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Proper cleansing and moisturising are essential to avoid the effects of sunbathing and those long, late summer nights.
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In the late summer , however, the leaves disappear and the plant does not resume growth until the beginning of spring.
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The fields here were fringed with rowan trees, their bright red berries clashing horribly with the purple heather of late summer .
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In the late summer , they thought the epidemic was over.
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He could only imagine the impatience of the thousands waiting in the late summer sun outside.
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A 24-week program will start in late summer .
long
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Cool, refreshing pastel shades are just right for a long hot summer !
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With school being such a lifeline for my beleaguered psyche, the long summer vacation presented a uniquely gloomy and purgatorial prospect.
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Another mild spring and long , hot summer ?
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And by the neglect of the long hot summer .
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Perhaps not even in the long summer that stretched ahead of them.
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So a long hot summer with bright, sunny days well into September will result in a high concentration of both pigments.
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Proper cleansing and moisturising are essential to avoid the effects of sunbathing and those long , late summer nights.
■ NOUN
camp
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Allen said that he called Previn at summer camp in 1991, using the name George Simon.
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For Olajuwon, the Dream Team experience has been like a summer camp at a very exclusive boys' club.
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Sigua was reported to have fled to the rebel headquarters in a Komsomol summer camp outside Tbilisi to avoid arrest.
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This year, too, the Pillow experience was like summer camp for the dancers.
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It was running like a well-oiled machine, instead of like a slightly out-of-control summer camp .
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Also, the West Coast is where my family, summer camps and friends are.
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The Sea Cadets had a summer camp in the naval base at Aultbea with good facilities.
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The question of whether children were safe at summer camp or not made for much parental discussion and anxiety.
day
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The old building, seen from the Thames on summer days , is quietly and broodingly majestic.
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On a sweltering, humid summer day , no one in Philly sweats.
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He had a peculiar droning voice that reminded people of summer days and of buzzing from high up.
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It was a hot summer day , and our employees were dressed... casually.
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On sunny summer days it is possible to enjoy the dancing of the butterflies on the wild flower-rich embankments.
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The average 1995 worldwide temperature was 59. 7 degrees, or the equivalent of a summer day in London.
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David and his pals spent long summer days at the local swimming pool and they were out to impress the girls.
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It is a clear blue summer day , I am completely happy.
evening
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This woman arrived at the refuge early one summer evening in 1982 after a row over the dinner.
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We crossed a park and walked through a ring of benches where peo-ple were enjoying the summer evening .
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It was a typical summer evening in June.
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Society of summer evenings in Lake Wobegon was formal and genteel.
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I watched Ilsa climb the stairs in the golden haze of the summer evening .
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Another time, the school on the next block goes up in flames on a summer evening .
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Magnificent patches of white elder, their scent adding to the heady summer evening .
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The recollection of the summer evening sunlight coming through the large window behind the preacher's head evokes many nostalgic memories.
holiday
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By chance he, his wife and child had spent their summer holiday at Sam Son.
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High standards of plumbing, sanitation and hygiene; special factors: school summer holiday peak demand; operator reliability and continuity.
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The really outstanding events of the year were the Powells' party and the summer holiday in Cornwall.
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He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I'd owned him.
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My coming summer holiday started on the same day as my cousin's, and I was much looking forward to it.
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Instead of chilling with my friends after my GCSEs, I spent my summer holidays travelling the country.
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I must admit to enjoying the end of the summer holiday .
month
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Yet again it is the summer months that look the most fertile.
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The museum is open daily during the summer months .
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Also during the summer months , one of the Diocesan students for the priesthood came to Lartington on placement.
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Food is at its most plentiful during the short summer months , when the snow melts to uncover the higher mountain pastures.
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The projects will be supported and supervised over the summer months by staff of the Enterprise Centre.
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The mill can be seen working at weekends and bank holidays in the summer months .
night
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I talked to them in the Friends' Meeting House on a dark and stormy summer night .
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Restless cars and people, mostly young, roved aimlessly, exploring the summer night .
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The watchers from Berwick's walls presently could see them no more, in an overcast early summer night .
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Ted Lame, shirtless in the heat of the summer night , was waiting for them where they crossed Highway 18.
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Those summer nights at Hury will stay with me for ever.
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One summer night we sat outside under the gnarled 100-year-old trees and talked while his mom finished fixing dinner.
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Midnight sunlight shining through fogs gives the GISP2 drill tower a halo on summer nights .
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It was a lovely example of a wine to sip on a hot summer night on the deck or by the pool.
school
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And then he was leaving for the Devon summer school .
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Families travel to Los Angeles for intensive summer school sessions.
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Red velvet curtains closed out the Devon night, and the bar was awash with the drunken summer school intelligentsia.
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The change will add an estimated 33,000 new students to the summer school rosters, which last year reached about 200,000.
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We then went to a summer school in general relativity at Cornell University in upstate New York.
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Harvard summer school would have been a tantalizing experience for her.
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Anyone can participate in summer schools , as no auditions are required, only completion of an application form.
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He co-directed, then directed, the Library Association's summer schools at Aberystwyth from 1917 until 1929.
season
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In post-war years there was only a nine-minute service of Marton cars during the summer season , until it closed in 1961.
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Best claims to be willing to take groups out all year round, although the summer season is obviously more popular.
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The new collective bargaining agreement called for 10 weeks of subscription programs plus a four-week summer season .
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Lounge Bar, Cafe - Concerts and discos held regularly throughout the summer season .
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Open all the year, except Christmas and New Year's Day, with a tea-room available in the peak summer season .
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Unlike the trams, they are only seen during the summer season .
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Opera buffs will enjoy the summer season at Glyndebourne, 3 miles away.
term
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The summer term options include Cricket, Athletic and minor field games.
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During the summer term the man had consumed about twenty pints of Young's Special a week.
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The students attend the school for four sessions at the beginning of the summer term , to carry out their assignment.
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However, schools plan their staffing levels at least three months earlier and the timetable is usually worked on throughout the summer term .
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The project consists of several months' fieldwork carried out during the summer term and long vacation of the Junior Honours year.
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Yet his closest school-friend, that previous summer term , he found to be an agnostic.
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This delay was partly due to the teachers' industrial action in the summer term of 1984.
vacation
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In 1961 he spent the summer vacation touring with blues singer Sam Cooks.
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Airports had already been packed due to the summer vacation rush.
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Study for the dissertation for postgraduate degrees is normally undertaken during the summer vacation .
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The planning department officials assigned to work on the project gave up their summer vacations to bring it in on time.
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In the summer vacation there is a two-week camp.
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The postcards were usually of places we had visited as a family on those grueling summer vacations long ago.
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In recent months a good deal of concern has been expressed about students no longer having access to benefits over the summer vacation .
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With school being such a lifeline for my beleaguered psyche, the long summer vacation presented a uniquely gloomy and purgatorial prospect.
■ VERB
spend
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Although a few birds usually spend the summer in Shetland they have not so far been proved to breed here.
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He spent a couple of summers working for Congress.
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In 1961 he spent the summer vacation touring with blues singer Sam Cooks.
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He spent the next two summers playing Double-A at Reading, slowly progressing.
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So guess where one of my weeks will be spent this summer ?
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Young Oliver Rowntree, nursing his outrage, spent the summer brooding about what he could do to retaliate.
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Others have spent long summer holidays there.
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Since 1995, he spent summers in Glasston.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
all day/year/summer etc long
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He just sat at a table ticking off numbers all day long .
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He loved growing things, and in Florida he could work his garden all year long .
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I suppose that if we include New Zealand, we can claim to have new season lamb practically all year long .
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She'd sail the lake all day long if I let her.
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Smashing down mogul fields all day long , day after day, sounds great to skiers in their 20s.
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So all day long her thoughts fought with each other.
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The docks were experiencing a boom in trade and all day long a steady stream of customers came and went.
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There is just so little meaning in what I do almost all day long !
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He looked much younger than his 70 summers.
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the summer of 1972
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Announced last summer , the transaction became effective Jan. 1.
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Cornell University also offers a large variety of short courses on specific themes, held during the summer session.
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In the summer and autumn of 1989, Labour led strongly in the opinion polls again.
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Meanwhile, the film version of Skipped Parts begins production this summer .
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Olympic champions Linford Christie and Sally Gunnell will have their work cut out in their first individual races of the summer .
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Perhaps the color of the sky is no different in the summer .
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The employers pledged to provide summer and after-school jobs for young people and to give priority hiring to public school graduates.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few have summered annually since 1966, but breeding is still very rare.