I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bell tolls (= it slowly rings with a long low sound, when someone has died )
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The church bell was tolling mournfully as the carriage entered the cemetery gate.
a toll bridge (= one that you pay to go across )
death toll rose
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As the unrest continued, the death toll rose .
death toll stands at
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The official death toll stands at 53.
death toll
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As the unrest continued, the death toll rose .
(sound/strike/toll) the death knell for/of sth
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The loss of Georgia would sound the death knell of Republican hopes.
the death toll (= the number of people who die in an accident )
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Officials fear the death toll could be as high as 3000.
toll bridge
toll road
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
final
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Despite these grim warnings, the end of the season saw the final death toll down a little on last year.
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Officials estimate the final death toll could reach 35,000.
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Police say the final murder toll of the former doctor Harold Shipman may be 192.
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The final toll stands at over 237, 000.
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Perhaps 750 lives were lost there alone-or more than half the quake's likely final death toll .
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The final official death toll is 2, 388.
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Police said 21 bodies had been recovered as by last night and the final toll would not be clear until today.
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The final death toll remains to be tallied.
heavy
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The final quarter was an untidy affair on both sides with the conditions taking a heavy toll on concentration and stamina.
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But the assembly line claimed a heavy toll in their numbers and social relevance.
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Reproduction takes a heavy toll on mankind.
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Despite the heavy toll on the environment, it is the fire danger that worries rangers the most.
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This will take a heavy toll in the south in general, and in Arkansas, the president's home state, in particular.
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Analysts say the steep price markdowns that retailers took all month will exact a heavy toll on profits.
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The recession on the east coast has taken a heavy toll of banks there.
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Outsourcing and restructuring continue to exact a heavy toll even in the tight labor markets of the mid-1990s.
high
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Read in studio Heavy lorries trying to avoid higher tolls on the Severn Bridge are causing severe traffic problems on minor roads.
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But the high toll and the helicopters' plunging on to civilian areas made secrecy impossible.
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Fears of a higher death toll were compounded after reports indicated that up to 4,000,000 people risked death from starvation.
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The highest death toll was on the islands of Kutubdia, Maheshkali, Sandwip and Chakori in the south-east.
human
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Now, a simple mask gives hope of minimising the human toll .
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A human toll is also emerging.
official
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The official death toll was 42, most of them children; local officials and parents put it even higher.
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These figures are more than 200 times higher than the official toll of 31 deaths as claimed by the former Soviet government.
■ NOUN
bridge
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It would be preferable to the plans for an ugly toll bridge .
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The causeway near the mill, crossing the creek, is a toll bridge , with tollbooth intact.
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He says there shouldn't be toll bridges in this day and age.
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And for the toll bridge owners it could prove an expensive gamble.
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The tithe barns, the Rectory, the toll bridges no longer controlled daily life, but they still punctuated the landscape.
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This toll bridge was at Whitney suffered damage from the fast flowing flood, and parts of Hereford are already underwater.
death
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Many expressed disbelief that the death toll was not higher.
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The death toll is 2, 276, all by fire or drowning.
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There were suggestions that the death toll was up to five times higher than officially stated.
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The death toll from a single such explosion could easily be over 10 million people.
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The death toll in Punjab was almost 4,500 in 1990, the highest for any year.
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The book s authors arrive at the following death toll: U.S.S.R., 20 million.
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The civil war that followed claimed far more civilians than combatants; by some estimates the death toll exceeds 200,000.
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The actual death toll is much greater because thousands more turtles are caught in fishing nets and suffocate.
road
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Evan is seven, and only just now taking in the fact that we pay road tolls !
■ VERB
bring
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Their discovery brought the death toll in three days of fighting to 150.
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The human remains that would be discovered over the next fifty years brought the death toll to nearly five hundred.
exact
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The end might now be in sight, but the Eiger had exacted a grim toll for the right of passage.
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Among the jazz artists, drugs and liquor have exacted a terrible toll .
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But this case appears to be exacting a greater toll .
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Analysts say the steep price markdowns that retailers took all month will exact a heavy toll on profits.
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Outsourcing and restructuring continue to exact a heavy toll even in the tight labor markets of the mid-1990s.
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Fulfilling some aspects of the accord is exacting a heavier toll on the United States than many expected.
pay
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We drove until we reached St Michael where we paid a hefty toll of £30 to use the next stretch of road.
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As soon as you paid your toll , you left the world of commerce behind.
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The plaintiff objected to paying the tolls , and on the first occasion when he did so the owner seized his goods.
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You crossed an endless, rickety cantilever bridge after pausing on the Virginia bank to pay a one-dollar toll .
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They shouldn't have to pay a toll .
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Evan is seven, and only just now taking in the fact that we pay road tolls !
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They had refused to pay the toll as they were delivering humanitarian aid.
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Others pay a heavy toll in different ways.
put
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The government's latest figures put the death toll at 1,216 but most people believe that the figure is more than 3,000.
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Official Florida statistics put the death toll at six blacks and two whites killed.
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It is unclear exactly how many died in subsequent riots, but police sources put the toll at 30.
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Official figures put the death toll at 19, with 91 wounded, including some soldiers.
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The government put the death toll at 17.
take
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Living in a hot place like Miami takes its toll .
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All the long seasons ending with championship series, all the tough games, it takes a toll .
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In towns, the ever-increasing motor traffic takes its toll of crumbling sewers.
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It was great for about an hour or so and then the effort of keeping warm began to take its toll .
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And Katherine could do with all the comfort she could get for the illness was slowly and inexorably taking its toll .
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But things went downhill as the days went by-and the drudgery in much of the work took its toll .
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Furthermore, twelve months of fencing with Malcolm McLaren had taken a toll on Branson's nerves.
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This naturally takes a toll on intellectual honesty.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In 1871 they built a toll bridge from the mainland to the island.
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The death toll from the earthquake has risen still further in the worst disaster since 1952.
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The final toll was 83 dead and more than 100 injured.
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You have to pay tolls on many of the major roads in France.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Balancing the dual roles of minister to the world and shepherd to his own flock has taken its toll .
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Furthermore, twelve months of fencing with Malcolm McLaren had taken a toll on Branson's nerves.
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However, other fires burning in the state have taken a toll on efforts to fight the Lone fire.
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It was great for about an hour or so and then the effort of keeping warm began to take its toll .
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The final quarter was an untidy affair on both sides with the conditions taking a heavy toll on concentration and stamina.
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The four years had taken some physical toll .
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There were suggestions that the death toll was up to five times higher than officially stated.
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This naturally takes a toll on intellectual honesty.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bell
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The church bell was tolling mournfully as the carriage entered the cemetery gate.
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A bell buoy tolled from across the fiat stretch of gray water beyond.
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It was as if a harvest festival were enacted daily, for throughout the hours of market the church bell tolled quietly.
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Sunday morning, the opening bell tolled for Lennox Lewis.
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Wedding bells will toll in June.
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Like a bell tolling , news arrived every few months of relatives and friends.
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Cecilia Darne, who lived round the corner, said she heard a bell toll once at about eight in the morning.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The funeral procession left the church as the bells began to toll .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ask not for whom the Bell's tolls, it tolls for you.
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Cecilia Darne, who lived round the corner, said she heard a bell toll once at about eight in the morning.
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Like a bell tolling, news arrived every few months of relatives and friends.
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Sunday morning, the opening bell tolled for Lennox Lewis.
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The church bell was tolling mournfully as the carriage entered the cemetery gate.
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Whichever corporate lackey wins doesn't matter-the bell's already tolling.