I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a grammatical/spelling/typing error
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You lose marks if your paper contains spelling errors.
a type/form of exercise
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This type of exercise is excellent for losing weight.
blood type
different types/kinds etc
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There are many different types of fabric.
distinct types/groups/categories etc
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There are four distinct types.
kind/type/sort of person
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David was not the sort of person who found it easy to talk about his feelings.
sb's blood type/group (= one of the different types of human blood )
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What blood type are you?
some kind/type/form/sort of sth
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We can hopefully reach some kind of agreement.
the strong silent type (= a man who looks strong and does not talk very much )
typing pool
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
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There will also be deep-seated reasons why certain types of behaviour elicit strong responses in others.
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In the human management of distributed control, hierarchies of a certain type will proliferate rather than diminish.
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They can provide certain types of services more effectively than the statutory sector.
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Meats that come hot to the table from charcoal and gas grills have an affinity for certain types of wine.
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A degree of violence might also be sufficient to control certain types of behaviour for which conviction was difficult or unlikely.
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Once the criteria for the research methods were established it was possible to rule out certain types of approach.
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In the case of horizontally separated zones and certain types of racking this would be particularly difficult by normal means of observation.
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Only certain types of property normally come to auction, however.
different
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Different types of behaviour are suited to different types of measurement.
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Obesity is a cause of three different types of cancer in women.
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It is important that the instructions are followed carefully in view of the many different types of fibres and finishes used in modem fabrics.
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There are different types of gospel music.
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In fact water can form at least nine different types of ice crystal.
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But it is a different type of pressure than you heard about in 1985.
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Area analysis can be used to provide a company with information about the different types of people living in a particular area.
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In that practice you will discover different ways of obtaining the information to suit the different types of cases.
distinct
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In general it was almost exclusively extreme right-wing elements who were first involved, but they tended to be of two distinct types .
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There are ten distinct types of glycogen storage diseases and all of them are rare.
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These two distinct types of lens source have always coexisted; it is the balance between they that has changed.
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Indexing languages may be of three distinct types: 1.
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Over the centuries these became distinct in type and are now known as Night Goblins.
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In adults there seem to be two anatomically distinct types of stomach.
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In both window tracery and vaulting designs there are, despite many variations, two distinct types of pattern.
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Surprisingly, the origin of these two distinct types of stomach is unknown.
main
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The other main rift type is to be found orientated approximately at right angles to the strike of intercontinental collision orogens.
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Here he outlines a division into four main types that correspond to those of Longobardi as supplemented by Sainte-Marie.
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There are three main types of audit.
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In the case of such groups there are, I think, three main types of relation to practical politics.
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There are three main types of prevention, known as primary, secondary and tertiary.
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Two main types of lease exist, financial and operating.
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But in general the architecture of the area divides itself clearly in the period 1200-1600 into two main types .
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There are many possible uses for staff and learners of each of the main types of office software.
new
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But in 1940, nobody was looking for a new type of cooker.
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An Indiana entrepreneur has designed a new type of towel rack that fits behind a door.
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There are occasional signs of attempts by Downing Street to infiltrate a new type of person into the ranks of the lieutenancy.
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In short, information-based business transactions are creating new ways of doing business and even new types of business.
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The recompense is meagre, but when combined with ideological enthusiasm it helps sustain a new type of local politician.
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Curteys was a new type , learned, reforming and zealous, a man with a consummate lack of tact.
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It was the women, in fact, who provided stability for this new type of community.
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Once formed, this new type of state flourished, I would argue, for two closely connected reasons.
other
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Consequently, the fall in demand for building materials and construction workers will generate downward multiplier effects on other types of investment.
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He thrives on less sleep than the other types .
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Apart from marriages between the big and the quick there are many other types of alliances.
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With the other type switch on and off is non-automatic.
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If it proves as successful as its developer, Ramtron, claims, it could replace all other types of data storage.
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As we have seen they may involve other types of expert as well.
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Therefore, other types of formula diets without such drawbacks have been assessed.
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Statute provides an appeals procedure against deportation, the non renewal of residence permits and other types of restrictions.
particular
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Do you find that it is a particular type of child who tends to come up in front of you?
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What ties are there between this particular type of school performance and family relationships?
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Commentators who are too committed to particular types of action limit their appeal.
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The shorter ones among them generally limit themselves to praise-affirmations but do not as yet have any particular type of conclusion.
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Many insects have particular types of place where they congregate for mating.
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Each is specifically designed to solve a particular type of problem.
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The role of the noise is to make it more difficult for particular types to unambiguously signal their information.
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But convenience is rated as the most important factor in deciding on a particular type of credit by the great majority.
various
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The rest of this section will illustrate various types of mismatch of vocabulary.
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In recent years, however, banks have introduced various types of interest-bearing sight account.
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Trinucleid trilobites, with various types of fringe, are characteristic of Ordovician rocks.
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Indirectly, the titles given to various types imply that distinctions were considered possible.
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Polymers - there are various types , such as silicone polymers which cling to the hair with effective conditioning benefits.
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The endoscopic concept of visible vessel includes several stages of the same lesion and even various types of lesions.
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Gilder's literature survey contains a useful summary of information on the costs of relegation and various types of storage.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
all sorts/kinds/types of sth
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After that, they subjected me to all kinds of examinations and procedures.
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At that special level all sorts of odd things happened...
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Damaged anemones are open to all sorts of bacterial diseases which can be fatal.
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No one company offers the best or worst deals in all countries or for all types of car.
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Now here was Lisa, claiming her innocence, claiming all sorts of prosecutorial abuse.
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Now, all kinds of marvellous technologies are used to read the message of the nucleic acids.
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Producers are obstructed by governments in all sorts of ways, but enterprises are, by and large, private.
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There are all sorts of machines being developed to upgrade security.
bad lot/sort/type
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And yes, I know, even as a spectator, I was condoning the worst sort of behavior.
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But maybe that is the worst sort of wishful thinking.
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Domestic violence is insanity of the worst sort.
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He was a bad lot and it was just one of those things.
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I left to live with a boyfriend, who turned out to be a bad lot.
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If so, San Diego was among the worst of a bad lot.
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If they do not, they will be guilty of the worst sort of hypocrisy.
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The city's school system, among the worst of a bad lot through the state, is full of squabbling.
outdoor type
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I arrived at Skaftafell to find several groups of campers, all wild-eyed outdoor types, I suppose not unlike me.
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Tailored suits are teamed with polo-shirts and, if he's the outdoor type, there are pages of sports-inspired casual wear.
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You should only leave 3 or 4 trusses to ripen on standard outdoor types.
the exact colour/moment/type etc
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But prosecutors in the Anwar Ibrahim indecency trial knew the exact moment of the chauffeur's trauma.
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He looked up at the screen at the exact moment Rocky gave himself the name he would henceforth carry.
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I can tell you the exact moment he fell in love with her.
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I was then sure that the brush was holding the exact colour the painting required.
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It is difficult to trace the exact moment at which he decided that the military situation was hopeless.
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The user has to judge the exact moment to stop.
true to form/type
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And true to form Graham Sale lost no time in capitalising on an opportunity presenting Douglas Hurd with his own clock.
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At Peniel the blessing runs true to form.
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It is not really worth saving seeds from F1 hybrids or from most fruit varieties as these rarely reproduce true to type.
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Now to see if he is true to form.
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Only Joffre himself, true to form, seemed unaffected by it all.
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Such subtlety would be true to form for a scorpion, after all.
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Unlike other cereals, rye is cross-fertilized and does not remain true to type.
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With luck, this one would run true to form.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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bold type
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Hutchins has been writing novels of this type for years.
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Marion says she'll do some typing for us.
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Rosa has trouble finding cosmetics for her skin type .
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the artistic type
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The second woman was a grandmotherly type .
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We need a secretary with good typing speeds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a result, several general types of college of higher education evolved.
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Does the organization have a track record of success in initiatives of this type ?
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Here again, there are many quite ordinary terms for the internal parts of discourse types.
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His colleague Gwyn Meirion-Jones, had been working on various building types beginning with peasant houses.
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Sam hoped he wasn't one of those New Age mystical types.
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Soon she pulled into the driveway of her house, a modest brick ranch type fringing the edges of her voting district.
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Today, a well-known, but primitive, type of ego-defence exists, termed identification with the aggressor.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
command
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Once you have typed the command the quiz displays output as though the command had actually been executed.
computer
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She complies, and the marketing firm has her answers typed into a computer .
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Favorite recipes can be typed into the computer , organized by category and found quickly through a search function.
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Just type it into your computer , then call it back when you need it.
document
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He did the typing for the documents on his machine at school.
letter
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The surname should be written or typed in block letters followed by the title of the guest, and then the initials.
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Please type or print your letters and keep them brief.
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Then he sat down and typed a letter to every agony aunt he had ever heard of.
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She had typed the letter immediately and then had run it upstairs for his signature.
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We might compare: The professor is typing his own letters for the time being.
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Six months later I sat at my desk typing a letter .
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He typed all his own letters .
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It is a typed double-spaced letter of two and a half pages.
message
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Anyone could have typed that message and his initial, she realised with dismay.
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It happens via electronic mail, in discussion groups and particularly in chat areas, where people type messages to each other.
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The natural communication system for humans is speech, not typing messages on keyboards and watching messages on television screens.
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Avatars can even chat by typing messages to each other.
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Text chat is a generic term for communicating in real time over the Net using your keyboard to type messages .
name
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You gain access to your data by typing in a user name and password.
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These command-line systems forced you to type the entire name of the file you wanted to open.
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These stands can hold several hundred strips, on which are typed the guest's name , initials, room number.
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He rolled in a sheet of paper and standing next to Sam began to type: My name is Sam Fermoyle.
number
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The user should type the number of the required option at the Your Option prompt.
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Otherwise, pick 2, 3, 4 or 5 and type the number and then Go&038;.
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Such information as there was was typed in a number of different typefaces but all with fading ribbons.
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Notice that as you type the number , the characters shift to the left, instead of the the right as normal.
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A politically appointed typist could be required to type the same number of words a minute as the civil service typist.
text
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It is very easy to switch on toggles by accident, causing unexpected problems when typing in text .
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Most word processors had an input mode; when you were in that mode, you could type in new text .
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She could type a complicated text and scrutinize a visitor at the same time.
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Press Enter, press F4 twice to indent the next paragraph I inch, and type the following text . 8.
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Press Enter, press F4 three times, and type the following text . 9.
word
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The first thing to do is just type the word into the address window of your browser.
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To ferret out only whole words , press the spacebar once before and once after typing the search word.
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As you type , word wrap will take effect at character position 39, the right margin of the first column.
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Instead of typing a word to start a program, you clicked on an icon.
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The closest competitor the whole day was Arpaio, who earlier typed 44 words per minute.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bring up the customer database, and type in the amount on the invoice.
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Could you type those letters for me?
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I'm afraid I don't type very fast.
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I asked Michelle to type up my assignment so I could mail it in today.
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I don't know how to type .
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These letters still need to be typed.
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We'll have someone type it out and put it in alphabetical order.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A young policeman in a leather jacket painfully, letter by letter, typed my losses on an ancient machine.
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I had no idea what I was typing and would leave the office each day disorientated and dizzy with the effort.
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Please type or print your letters and keep them brief.
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Press Tab to indent the first line, then type the following paragraph.
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She complies, and the marketing firm has her answers typed into a computer.
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So: you type it out on an electric typewriter on A4 or A5 size paper.