I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a signal travels (= goes across space, along a wire etc )
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The signal travels over the cable network.
a touring/travelling exhibition (= one that moves from place to place )
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The touring exhibition is scheduled to be in Dallas from March until June.
a tourist/travel/visitor's visa
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He applied for a tourist visa.
a travel bag (= a suitcase or bag taken with you when you travel )
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Your travel bag must not weigh more than 20 kilos.
a travel diary (= that you write while you are travelling )
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His travel diary makes fascinating reading.
a travel permit
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Palestinians have to obtain a travel permit for travel between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
a travel/history/sports etc writer (= someone who writes articles and books about a subject )
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This region of Europe does not excite many travel writers.
a travelling companion British English , a traveling companion American English (= someone you travel somewhere with )
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I knew that Dave would be a good travelling companion.
a travel/travelling clock (= a small one for taking on journeys )
a travel/travelling clock (= a small one for taking on journeys )
an advertising/employment/travel etc agency
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a local housing agency
coach travel
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The advantage of coach travel is that it’s relatively cheap.
go by/travel by train
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We decided to go by train.
go/travel by bus
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I usually go to work by bus.
go/travel by car
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I try to use public transport instead of going by car.
go/travel by coach
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We spent three days travelling by coach across France.
journey/travel time (= the time it takes to travel somewhere )
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By train, the journey time to London is about two hours.
long-distance travel/journey/flight/commuting etc
passengers travel somewhere
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More than 7.6m rail passengers travelled on the Eurostar rail service last year.
rail travel
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They had introduced measures to make rail travel safer.
sb’s gaze moves/travels/shifts/sweeps etc
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His gaze travelled over the still water to the other side of the lake.
sound travels
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Light travels faster than sound.
space travel
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What will space travel be like in the future?
sports/style/business/travel etc section (= particular part of a newspaper )
the direction of movement/travel/flow etc
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It was hard work rowing against the direction of flow.
the tourist/travel industry
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The tourist industry earns billions of dollars per year.
time travel
travel a great/long etc distance
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In some countries children must travel great distances to school each day.
travel agency
travel agent
travel arrangements
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I’ll make my own travel arrangements.
travel bureau
travel freely
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EU members are allowed to travel freely between member states.
travel insurance
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Most banks are also able to arrange travel insurance.
travel on a flight
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Passengers travelling on flight BMI 373 to Zurich should proceed to gate 17.
travel on a passport
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The men were convicted of travelling on a false passport.
travel restrictions
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The Home Secretary placed travel restrictions on supporters with convictions for violence.
travel sickness
travel the world
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He spent his first few years after school travelling the world.
travel writing
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Here is some of the best travel writing from around the globe.
travelled abroad
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We never travelled abroad when we were kids.
travelling salesman
travel/motion/car/sea etc sickness (= sickness that some people get while travelling )
travel/travelling expenses
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The company will pay the travelling expenses involved in getting to and from the meeting.
travel/travelling expenses
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The company will pay the travelling expenses involved in getting to and from the meeting.
within travelling/commuting/driving distance of sth (= near enough to make travel to or from a place possible )
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The job was not within travelling distance of my home.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
abroad
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The very same women who had been all for their daughters travelling abroad seemed suddenly to get bored with the idea.
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He needed to invent a reason to travel abroad because a Marine has two years in the reserve after active duty.
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Bloodstock, mares, stallions, used to travel abroad loaded up with notes.
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Joseph McCarthy, deprived him of his right to travel abroad .
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He says that sponsors wouldn't put up the cash to pay for a judge to travel abroad .
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Card Watch, the banking industry's plastic card fraud prevention campaign, issues top tips for travelling abroad .
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Why did a New York critic have to travel abroad to see a New York company?
along
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His gaze travelled along the length of the Bridge.
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When an employee sends an electronic mail form, the information travels along with the form.
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We were travelling along the Lofoten Wall, an apt description for the mountains protecting this huge sea fjord.
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Highly monochromatic laser light is split by the mirror M to travel along the two arms.
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The corridor they had travelled along had turned an abrupt corner and then ended at a blank, curved wall.
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The car had been travelling along the A534 from Wrexham to Holt when it went out of control.
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On travelling along the x axis to Quito a traveller would find that Libreville lies in the y direction.
around
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It was while travelling around the world that the seeds of her future calling were first sown.
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It travels around its star every 14. 76 days.
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Merchants would travel around on a regular basis giving out raw materials and collecting the spun, or woven, product.
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I want to travel around and talk to people about what is happening on the ground.
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During a typical summer's day, a mountain goat may travel around a kilometre in search of food.
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The idea was to travel around , there would be some going to towns and waiting for things to happen.
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They used to travel around a lot, handing out leaflets and things.
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Oh, not in the top flight, but he travels around the world - anywhere golf is played.
extensively
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Mary and David have travelled extensively and enjoy meeting their guests, who hail from all quarters of the world.
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He travelled extensively , was fond of music, and was a competent pianist.
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Applicants must be willing to travel extensively .
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Robert Louis Stevenson the novelist and poet who travelled extensively , preferred the donkey.
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During her five years in office Pauline has travelled extensively to personally support and encourage teachers and members.
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They travelled extensively , but he had to pander to her every whim.
freely
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Traffic was travelling freely , east and west, along the North Circular Road yesterday.
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Ernest Bevin's utopian vision of going to Victoria Station and travelling freely abroad without documents of identity has finally faded.
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The eyes can travel freely along the series of dots comprising the line.
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He and his wife Mary lived in London, unable to travel freely and even avoided by some of his fellow scientists.
together
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These men are different from most as they travel together , although George could settle down happily without Lennie.
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His admonishments do more to get my blood rushing than do the miles we travel together around the park.
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Obviously the maid was disguised in view of the fact that we were known to be looking for two women travelling together .
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Or, better still, we would travel together as far as the Himalayas to see the home of the gods.
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Irrespective of the motion, the blue and red flashes will travel together at the same speed.
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Three separate well-placed sources confirmed the prince and princess would travel together next spring.
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We could not travel together as a family because there was no available transportation for everybody.
widely
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He travelled widely in connection with the company's business and contributed many technical papers which earned him an international reputation.
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Lachlan travelled widely that spring, trying to escape Marion's poisoned sweetness.
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Foreign relations Leading Czechoslovak government figures travelled widely to forge new international agreements.
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This means that he travelled widely and explored the East in which he was interested.
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Before we get there we shall have travelled widely , and seen many places and many things.
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She has travelled widely and has lived in four countries in the Commonwealth.
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He travelled widely in the early 1970s, probably more widely than any other world leader.
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By night she travels widely throughout her territory - often approaching farmsteads and villages.
■ NOUN
air
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This happens because the air travelling over the top surface of the wing is moving faster than that over the bottom surface.
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You know what we need to guarantee the safest, most reliable means of air travel humanly, technologically possible?
bus
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Adelaida Parra coordinates seven literacy groups each week spending long hours travelling by bus between the distant shanty towns.
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I used to travel by bus a lot, so I had a season ticket.
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They spent their time hiding behind low stone walls and leaping out at motorists travelling in bus lanes.
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Ian and Libby and Joshua will be travelling by bus or car; it might suit Avocado Gerry, though.
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The children travel by school bus to Howden, and social events are held in the old school.
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Within a few days of term ending, the Roberts travelled by bus to Heathrow.
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Some parents say they won't allow their children to travel by bus until the law is changed.
car
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The car had been travelling along the A534 from Wrexham to Holt when it went out of control.
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Eye witnesses say the car was travelling at high speed along the road shortly before the accident.
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He looks likely to tell staff they will be better off leaving cars at home and travelling by moped or motorcycle.
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Meanwhile police are trying to find out who was driving the car when it travelled down the country lane to Stonebench.
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I might have had a different man, a bigger apartment, a bigger car , travel that way instead of this.
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Greater fuel efficiency is essential and there are now prototype cars that can travel between 52 and 100 miles per gallon.
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The road was scarcely wide enough to accommodate two cars travelling abreast but the Audi ploughed up a grass verge.
country
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Customs officers from each country would be allowed to travel to either country in pursuit of suspected traffickers.
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He travels the country conducting workshops and has published eight pieces of Classical music for students.
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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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She saw all her wolves lying dead, and the strangers still travelling through her country .
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Paul Pratt travelled through forty-eight countries .
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When we travel to foreign countries , we carry guidebooks to help us negotiate terrain that is strange but wonderful.
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Citizens are free to travel around the country and obtain visas to venture overseas.
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Armed only with a sketchbook, Olwen travels all over the country in search of botanical gardens and interesting conservatories.
distance
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This is the distance travelled to the greater security of reformation in feeling.
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Her acceleration took her towards these beams, so they would have less distance to travel than normal.
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Of course, the actual distance the raft was travelling over the ground or through the water varied.
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Can you find the average distance they travel to work each day?
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Days began early and ended late so that maximum distances could be travelled .
light
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In theory, the light could travel any distance along the fibre.
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But there is something else through which light travels , Holmes.
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The light travelled over his uniform, and that definitely provoked a question.
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You are quite correct that light can travel through vacuum, and fortunately so.
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The lights were travelling along the road.
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A beam of light travels 186, 000 miles per second.
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A laser is an exceptionally bright source of light so the light can travel much further between successive repeaters.
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For one thing, you are forgetting the basic fact that light travels at finite speed.
mile
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Their hired Vauxhall Astra which was travelling thirty miles an hour crashed into the back of an army convoy and caught fire.
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Why it had taken him all day to travel thirty odd miles was not explained.
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Magistrates heard that on both occasions she was travelling at more than ninety miles an hour.
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At £93, each passenger is travelling about 37 miles for every £1.
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They had travelled 2,000 miles only to be disappointed by cruel coincidence.
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Passengers travelling 230 miles to Amsterdam fork out £136.
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David arrived in London with Angie, having travelled more that 8,000 miles overland.
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Why travel thousands of miles to visit a spoof Paris?
miles
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In this case, the move of premises meant that the employee had to travel an extra 40 miles each day.
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Phagu himself might have to travel many miles ahead and if a bus was available he sometimes took one.
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Magistrates heard that on both occasions she was travelling at more than ninety miles an hour.
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The impromptu concerts have been written up in national magazines and people travel hundreds of miles to take part in the fun.
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Before that the rector of Worth travelled the four miles along the Priest's Way to officiate at Swanage.
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A beam of light travels 186, 000 miles per second.
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Why travel thousands of miles to visit a spoof Paris?
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Others braved it, but faced a five hour journey to travel just twenty miles .
passenger
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If passengers chose to travel outside they were equipped with helmet and goggles.
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Disabled passengers should travel by Duchesse Anne if possible, instead of Armorique, which has restricted passageways.
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It was untrue that passengers travelled packed together like cattle.
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Most passengers will travel to the continent by air.
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Bert Burnell sees it in the number of passengers travelling on each of his routes.
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At £93, each passenger is travelling about 37 miles for every £1.
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Parasite or passenger , I am travelling there with him.
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However, for passengers travelling to the rest of Livingston there would be problems.
people
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Quite a few people choose to travel in groups of two or three yachts while free sailing.
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Q.. How many people travel with you when you race?
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Even adventurous travellers like O'Hanlon crave home comforts, so why do people travel ?
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These people travel a little too heavy.
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The lack of opportunity for people to travel and study abroad would have hastened that decline.
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He is determined to live amongst his people , to travel with them.
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Now in Britain most people travel many kilometres between their homes and their work, often from one town to another.
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What else, besides work, attracts many people to travel to Glasgow fairly frequently?
rail
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I recently travelled on the Kent rail service and visited my hon. Friend's constituency with him.
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At least 43 deaths were blamed on the storm, which shut down virtually all travel except rail .
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People who travel by rail still read an immense amount.
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Neither is it an expensive luxury for those who prefer to travel by rail .
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The Unimog used for inspecting the overhead wire, can travel on road or rails .
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Soon the hunters who travelled by rail hunted not for food or protection, but for trophies and sport.
road
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In some cases Labour has travelled the same road .
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Those who travel the road regularly say their biggest fear is head-on collisions.
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For those who are not travelling by road , direct rail journeys are possible from most urban centres.
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He did travel some good roads .
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In London alone there are between 5,000 and 6,000 totally deaf adults and children travelling about the roads daily.
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You have a choice of method of travel: you may travel by road , by rail, or by air.
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And hot-air balloon cylinders do travel by road - between flights.
space
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However the motion of the car shatters any illusion that you are travelling through space !
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Director Chris Wilken does a fine job guiding his cast of 12 through an intricate choreography that travels through time and space .
speed
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Witnesses say the rover seemed to be travelling at high speed .
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As most travelers know, you can only travel at breakneck speed for so long.
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Guided buses, attached to rails at their sides, can travel at high speeds without needing drivers to steer them.
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For one thing, you are forgetting the basic fact that light travels at finite speed .
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High, high it went, travelling at speed .
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You see, Watson, if light is a particle, then it will travel at a speed determined by the emitter.
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They are caught very well since they are travelling at top speed .
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It is inevitable that tyres like that will blow out when travelling at a high speed .
train
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Those trains will travel on to Glasgow and, we hope, beyond.
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Sometimes migrant trains were seen travelling eastward, despite the higher fares, just as packed as those going west.
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The first has been the slow change-over from travel by train to travel by car.
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Seconds later an empty train travelling away from London ran into the wreckage.
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So with a wide choice of train services, travelling by train is the ultimate in convenience.
world
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It was while travelling around the world that the seeds of her future calling were first sown.
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We travel the world with our gym bags and prayer rugs, unrolling them in the transit lounges.
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Oh, not in the top flight, but he travels around the world - anywhere golf is played.
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As I travel about the world , I keep promising to learn at least one foreign language.
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The owner, who had recently died, had travelled the world .
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They travel all over the world plying their peculiar trade.
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My plans are to travel the entire world with my record.
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By the time she returned from travelling the world , she was in her mid-twenties.
■ VERB
allow
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Customs officers from each country would be allowed to travel to either country in pursuit of suspected traffickers.
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It paid for my college and allowed me to travel .
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If he was careful she might even allow him to travel back with her on the coach.
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Some parents say they won't allow their children to travel by bus until the law is changed.
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After all, what were the reasons for not allowing her to travel alone?
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Theodora allowed the beam to travel round the room.
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Lefevre allowed the carriage to travel a hundred yards before giving orders to follow at a safe distance.
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What dreary offices we inhabit, I thought as I allowed my gaze to travel round this miniature version of my own.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
travelling companion
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A lot has to do with one's travelling companion.
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Blake sighed, and ran to catch up with his travelling companion.
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Her travelling companions had quietened, as if some one in authority had arrived.
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In the back of the taxi, our two temporary travelling companions sit as far apart as possible.
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Indeed, I worship the little devil, but only as a travelling companion.
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My other travelling companion, John Lawrence, would describe himself first and foremost as a writer.
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Sad for the bulk of his travelling companions; glad that his own destiny was different.
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Thesiger invited him and his travelling companion to spend the night with his caravan.
travelling expenses
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A training allowance and travelling expenses for the 16 weeks of the programme.
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His astronomical travelling expenses all but bankrupted the club, and his non-appearance at over half the games sapped team morale.
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It was held that he was not entitled to claim his travelling expenses from the advertiser.
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She was awarded £60 travelling expenses by the court.
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The clergy's travelling expenses are chargeable as extras.
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The company also paid travelling expenses for all employees following the move of their department for a six-month period.
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The full amount of excess travelling expenses can be reclaimed.
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The prize includes up to £500 travelling expenses for you and your party.
travelling musician/circus/exhibition etc
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A Bradford Museums Service travelling exhibition.
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However, John Reynolds, the latest addition to this high-speed travelling circus, could be one of the surprise packets.
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The stables turned out to be remarkably solid structures for a travelling circus, made mostly of wood with canvas roofs.
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This year a travelling circus put up its tent and offered the public a horse-riding show.
travelling people/folk
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I get the impression the indigenous locals know the travelling people keep disappearing to have some blow, and resent it.
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In the past, pearl fishing was often carried out by travelling people who used a glass-bottomed bucket to locate them.
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There are areas that are perfectly acceptable to the travelling people who use York.
travelling rug/clock etc
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And he takes a travelling rug with him - another of those fussy bag-and-baggage objects which assert the novel's tonality.
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At a quarter to four by the little travelling clock at his bedside he got out of bed and went to the window.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Do you have to travel a lot in your new job?
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Helena really likes to travel .
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I love to travel .
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News travels fast in a small town like this.
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The post will involve you travelling to Germany about three times a year.
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They had been travelling over the dry desert terrain for five days.
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We traveled 2251 miles in 11 days.
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We travelled from China to Russia by train.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And we were travelling again, through ravine, under totem.
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Facilities managers also may monitor the work of maintenance, grounds, and custodial staffs, and travel between different facilities.
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Nine others travelling in the minibus, which was returning the from game at Port Vale, were injured.
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Over a year a hare may travel over an area as large as 50 hectares, in search of the right food.
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Something must be wrong when, although they have to travel further they are coming in cheaper.
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The impromptu concerts have been written up in national magazines and people travel hundreds of miles to take part in the fun.
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There was intense competition among companies to travel with Brown on his overseas trips, which frequently generated major deals.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
foreign
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As things stand, ministers who oversee large state industries enjoy free accommodation at five-star hotels and foreign travel .
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In part, the present high level of antipathy toward foreign travel is easy to explain.
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Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel .
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Dominic said that for him the most important part of foreign travel was meeting the people.
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A considerable amount of foreign travel is involved.
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Private foreign travel had been restricted by the war.
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Passports for foreign travel became freely available, with the result that 6,000 were issued in 1856 and 26,000 in 1859.
free
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Higher paid employees of the railways enjoy free or concessionary travel on the railways.
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But many certificates for free or upgraded travel ordered a year ago carry a 12-month deadline for redemption.
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ScotRail will provide our winners with free return rail travel to Glasgow and Ayr.
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You also get free travel accident insurance if you use your card to pay for tickets.
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London Transport will provide free travel on all night buses and tubes after midnight.
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The evidence is that when free concessionary travel was withdrawn fewer trips were made and there were fewer elderly bus passenger casualties.
international
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The result of this strategy is that I've never missed a plane in twenty-eight years of international travel - except once.
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On the surface, taxing international air travel fits the bill perfectly because it carries little apparent political pain.
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In a new world of international travel , the boundaries between East and West are rapidly fading.
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I think we can be fine too in terms of providing international air travel with minimal enhancements.
■ NOUN
agency
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The only retail travel agency in Britain specialising in passenger journeys on board cargo ships.
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Most packages can be booked through travel agencies .
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The travel agency industry has changed drastically since Thomas Cook's own day.
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Need help in checking on the reliability of a travel agency or tour operator?
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Go to a travel agency you trust, and inquire if it does business with consolidators.
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The start-up costs of a travel agency have been relatively small.
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Many large travel agencies have 24-hour toll-free phone numbers.
agent
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Charles Darwin did, but he had no need for a travel agent .
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Can my travel agent take care of it?
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This arrangement accounts for the bulk of the hotel's travel agent bookings.
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For more information about any of these cruises, contact a local travel agent .
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Consult and compare at your local travel agent .
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In the old days, travel agents looked after their customers by finding them the best-value hotels at the required destination.
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Contact a travel agent about rates and alternatives.
air
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Growth in air travel is fuelling the boom.
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No effort was spared to make air travel seem like ocean voyaging or traveling by train.
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After checking for passports and air travel tickets we had nothing else to do but wait for our taxi.
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Underlying the candidates' commuter campaigning is the fact that much of their air travel is subsidized.
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So was Laker's concept of cheap but regular air travel .
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Once, this was difficult to cross; then, railways spanned it; now, air travel virtually ignores it.
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No one knows what effect the introduction of commercial fares will have on air travel in the former Soviet Union.
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The new offering, called the AAsset Card, will allow charges other than air travel .
arrangement
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Much to my surprise she agreed, on condition that we had separate rooms and made our own travel arrangements .
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Third, get yourself some travel arrangements and plane tickets.
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The travel arrangements were efficient and comfortable; the Hotel Tatry was first rate and we had a room with matchless views.
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Cook rationalized and simplified travel arrangements with his innovations.
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If you have any queries about the travel arrangements Betty Syrett or Hilda Hewitt will be happy to advise you. 7.
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Confusion causes problems in any travel arrangements Wednesday.
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This will help our local Representative to quickly resolve any query you may have about your travel arrangements .
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The inclusive tour, in which every item of travel arrangement was paid for in advance, was Thomas Cook's invention.
books
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He was a mediocre scholar but loved poetry, science, and travel books .
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Arizona travel books keep showing up on the travel desk.
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Novels, history, travel books , I don't mind.
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Gradually the island became more widely known through picture albums, engravings and travel books .
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He looked at his bookshelves, at his collection of contemporary male novelists, of modern poets, of travel books .
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Alan Parris, formerly product manager leisure and travel books , W H Smith's head office can be contacted at.
business
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In recent years there has been an explosion in the growth of business travel .
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But what if work takes you away from home on regular business travel ?
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It will continue to run a business travel operation.
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The place of the business travel must be documented.
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Particular emphasis on socially oriented topics, such as receiving visitors, making visits, appointments, entertainment and business travel .
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Contrary to popular belief, business travel has not decreased with new technology.
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Abigail, for example, opted out of business travel .
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I usually coincide it with business travel or vacations.
car
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Travelling by Car Any self-defence book will list all the basic precautions for car travel .
companion
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Loaded into a laptop computer, they can make terrific travel companions .
company
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The Gulf war, which could have spelt disaster for Airtours and many other travel companies , ended quickly.
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To make ends meet, she works for a travel company and makes dumplings for a cafeteria.
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Details should be confirmed with the appropriate travel companies .
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The founder of organized group travel , and one of the world's largest travel companies .
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Late one night the telephone rang at the 24-hour office of a business travel company in London.
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One travel company alone brings in a coach tour from the Midlands every fortnight.
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During the week OAPs travelling in either direction will be eligible for substantial travel concessions agreed with the major travel companies .
costs
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Students receiving grants from other authorities receive £125 in the grant to cover travel costs .
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Otherwise, the company will deduct 2 percent of our travel costs from our reimbursement checks.
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Adoption is expensive: fees and travel costs can add up to $ 20, 000 a child.
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The International Olympic Committee probably would foot the repair bill, and the international track federation would pay travel costs .
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The Awlad Amira administration paid the travel costs of all the Kufra delegates, including Mannaia shaikhs.
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Clinton campaign officials decline to detail travel costs for the president or his entourage.
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If the hospital agrees that you need some one to travel with you, they also will get help with their travel costs .
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She was deemed to have incurred the expense of the journey and was charged interest on her travel costs .
expenses
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Your travel expenses , and those of your spouse and children if appropriate, should normally be borne by your employer.
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My bank pays 25 cents a mile for our travel expenses .
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A witness summons should be served personally and the witness offered a reasonable sum of money to cover his travel expenses .
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Members receive travel expenses , but no salaries.
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He has been awarded £200 from Middlesbrough council's community chest to help with his training and travel expenses .
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A charge of £15 to £25 plus travel expenses should be introduced for this service.
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The amount of the travel expenses need not be substantiated.
firm
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Thomas Cook, a travel firm , asked 7,500 staff members to take voluntary pay cuts.
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Read in studio Michael Heseltine is being blamed for thousands of people losing their holidays when a travel firm went bust.
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A further organizational trend under way in the tourist industry concerns an aspect of the internal organization of travel firms themselves.
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Sports fans claim Olympic travel firm ripped them off.
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You are working for a travel firm selling exotic holidays.
industry
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Business and customer handling skills must be developed in the context of the travel industry .
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To be sure, the on-line travel industry is still in its infancy, but it appears poised for explosive growth.
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However, for the travel industry as it exists today there is a problem.
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Once they get there they need facilities, all the kinds of things the travel industry already knows how to provide.
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David Lewis, chairman, said the year started with a considerable amount of uncertainty and despair in the travel industry .
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C., by travel industry leaders to explain the change from a government-funded to an industry-funded agency.
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But the travel industry is presently experiencing a Thirties- style depression, with probably its worst slump in bookings.
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Actually, the travel industry does this every year.
insurance
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But don't expect your travel insurance to pay up unless you're injured or get your luggage damaged in the storms.
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It does not include travel insurance , wine and drinks with meals and room service.
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Most banks are also able to offer travel insurance .
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Airlines offer some cover but the amount payable can be small in comparison with sums offered by the travel insurance specialists.
office
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The Union area includes a main hall, modern lounge bar facilities, a travel office , shop and cafeteria and disco-bar.
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Several White House aides have already been forced to resign because of the travel office and Whitewater.
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He lied about the firing of the White House travel office personnel.
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Both the Foster papers and the travel office flap are small potatoes.
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Watkins said Thomason presented the plan to President Clinton a month before the travel office firings.
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Clinger also issued Thomason a subpoena demanding any records pertaining to the travel office case.
plan
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Consequently, even long-standing travel plans or arrangements may have to be postponed or cancelled in early May.
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I am sorry if you have made travel plans .
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International Chapters offers flexible accommodation arrangements and will be happy to advise on alternative travel plans .
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I still have a private airplane and my travel plans are unannounced; and I lead my own life.
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But she would have to alter her travel plans - she is due to be abroad that day.
rail
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Yesterday's transport committee heard that a group is being set up to consider all aspects of rail travel in the North-East.
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But Michael Fallon, defending Darlington for the Tories said the concessionary rail travel would be safeguarded.
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ScotRail will provide our winners with free return rail travel to Glasgow and Ayr.
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Not that the beginnings of rail travel were auspicious.
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In any event, rail travel is becoming more like a dice game.
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Packages that include rail travel are available from Superbreak Mini-Holidays.
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If rail travel gets worse before it gets better, voters may dump them at the next general election.
restriction
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The tournament was played over three rounds as a result of local government elections and the imposition of travel restrictions .
sickness
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Travel Bands wrist bands to prevent travel sickness , £6.50.
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Scopolamine is used for travel sickness .
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Recovery from the effects of travel sickness is very rapid.
space
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Many argue that the biological effects of lengthy space travel are the biggest imponderable.
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Large rockets are used for space travel and exploration.
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Far right: beam me up! Space travel was a reality and its influence was enormous.
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There is no doubt that the inhabitants once possessed space travel .
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This would be the ideal method of long-distance space travel mentioned earlier.
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At first, this form of space travel seemed possible.
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Who predicted space travel and submarines years before they became a reality!
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He says his new craft would revolutionise space travel .
time
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The experience is unsettling, as if voyeuristic, and also uncanny, like a brief time travel , and absurdly pleasing.
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Hail, then, to mischievous tunesmith Todd Rundgren, who served up a splendid evening of time travel .
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Impossible. Time travel would be easier.
train
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There is something about train travel that prompts a kind of wistful, almost poetic, detachment.
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Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years.
writer
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Kathleen de Burca is a 49-year-old travel writer who has spent her life on the surface of things.
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Chat rooms with other travel writers ?
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Most travel writers are not travel writers at all.
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The travel writer is almost exclusively a twentieth-century phenomenon.
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include
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It does not include travel insurance, wine and drinks with meals and room service.
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They include travel days and off days.
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The Electronic Book is designed as a portable information store and titles include travel discs, foreign language aids and restaurant guides.
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Future developments are likely to include incentive travel schemes and enhancements that will give the cards electronic purse features.
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They include travel , gambling, and expenditure on books, magazines, and newspapers.
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Three nights cost from £289, this includes air travel London/Berne.
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This includes travel goods, kitchenware and decorative accessories in classic Sanderson designs.
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Details of your outboard and inbound ferry crossing will be included in your travel documentation.
involve
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I asked purely because the job will involve some travel .
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When you take that job, it will involve a lot of travel .
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True, Luke had mentioned at the interview that the job would involve travel , and she had welcomed the prospect then.
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Again: there is cost and time involved with travel and may be a limiting factor.
pay
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Credit cards are particularly useful when travelling and there are often insurance benefits if you pay for your travel through them.
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And you get to pay for your travel and expenses, too.
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Britain would pay travel expenses and initial accommodation costs, and provide a counsellor to oversee their rehabilitation.
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The International Olympic Committee probably would foot the repair bill, and the international track federation would pay travel costs.
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So, the question is: Is it worth paying a travel agent for a service we used to get for free?
spend
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Three-fifths of this was spent on travel , tuition fees, exam and registration fees and childcare.
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But Brown, who spent more on travel than any of his predecessors, was also criticized for his overseas work.
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The £7,000 prize money had to be spent on travel .
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The years 1898-1901 were spent in travel abroad, mainly in the self-governing colonies.
write
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How does one write a travel book, I'd wondered aloud, how describe the sheer physicality of life?
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She wrote travel literature and lived much of her later life abroad.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be bitten by the showbiz/travel/flying etc bug
travelling companion
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A lot has to do with one's travelling companion.
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Blake sighed, and ran to catch up with his travelling companion.
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Her travelling companions had quietened, as if some one in authority had arrived.
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In the back of the taxi, our two temporary travelling companions sit as far apart as possible.
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Indeed, I worship the little devil, but only as a travelling companion.
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My other travelling companion, John Lawrence, would describe himself first and foremost as a writer.
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Sad for the bulk of his travelling companions; glad that his own destiny was different.
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Thesiger invited him and his travelling companion to spend the night with his caravan.
travelling expenses
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A training allowance and travelling expenses for the 16 weeks of the programme.
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His astronomical travelling expenses all but bankrupted the club, and his non-appearance at over half the games sapped team morale.
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It was held that he was not entitled to claim his travelling expenses from the advertiser.
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She was awarded £60 travelling expenses by the court.
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The clergy's travelling expenses are chargeable as extras.
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The company also paid travelling expenses for all employees following the move of their department for a six-month period.
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The full amount of excess travelling expenses can be reclaimed.
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The prize includes up to £500 travelling expenses for you and your party.
travelling musician/circus/exhibition etc
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A Bradford Museums Service travelling exhibition.
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However, John Reynolds, the latest addition to this high-speed travelling circus, could be one of the surprise packets.
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The stables turned out to be remarkably solid structures for a travelling circus, made mostly of wood with canvas roofs.
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This year a travelling circus put up its tent and offered the public a horse-riding show.
travelling people/folk
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I get the impression the indigenous locals know the travelling people keep disappearing to have some blow, and resent it.
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In the past, pearl fishing was often carried out by travelling people who used a glass-bottomed bucket to locate them.
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There are areas that are perfectly acceptable to the travelling people who use York.
travelling rug/clock etc
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And he takes a travelling rug with him - another of those fussy bag-and-baggage objects which assert the novel's tonality.
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At a quarter to four by the little travelling clock at his bedside he got out of bed and went to the window.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a travel programme
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Future generations can possibly look forward to space travel as a holiday option.
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Her interests are politics, music, and travel .
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In the 19th century, travel between the two countries was extremely difficult.
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The job involves a certain amount of travelling.
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The State Department has advised against travel in the region.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Contact a travel agent about times and costs.
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Here are seven dad-tested travel ideas that will help you connect with your kids while having a good time.
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The business traveller has been trotting the globe for centuries; before the nineteenth century most travel was for business purposes.
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The tournament was played over three rounds as a result of local government elections and the imposition of travel restrictions.
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We also very much enjoy travel .