noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
4 nights/3 weeks etc in a row
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She’s been out four nights in a row.
a 20-minute/6-month/4-week etc delay
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A train had broken down, causing a two-hour delay.
a rough day/week etc
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He’s had a rough week at work.
a week from today ( also today week/a week today British English )
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We’re going on holiday today week.
a week from tomorrow ( also a week tomorrow/tomorrow week British English )
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Terry’s new job starts a week tomorrow.
as the days/weeks/years go by
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As the weeks went by, I became more and more worried.
be four weeks/three months etc in arrears
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The rent money is two months in arrears.
be paid by the hour/day/week
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I was working on a building site, being paid by the hour.
days/weeks etc afterwards
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The experience haunted me for years afterwards .
each day/week/month etc (= on each day, in each week etc )
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a disease that affects about 10 million people each year
earn £30,000 a year/$200 a week/£5 an hour etc
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Newly qualified teachers earn a minimum of £24,000 a year.
easy day/week etc
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She had a nice easy day at home.
enter its third week/sixth day/second year etc
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The talks have now entered their third week.
every day/week/month etc (= at least once on each day, in each week etc )
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They see each other every day.
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Richard visits his mother every week.
every few days/weeks etc
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The plants need to be watered every few days.
five hours/two weeks etc solid
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On Saturday I went to bed and slept fourteen hours solid.
hardly a day/week/month etc goes by without/when (= used to say that something happens almost every day, week etc )
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Hardly a month goes by without another factory closing down.
hardly a day/week/month etc goes by
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Hardly a week goes by without some food scare being reported in the media.
have two weeks/six months etc to live
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He knows he’s only got a few months to live.
Holy Week
in as many days/weeks/games etc
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A great trip! We visited five countries in as many days in five days .
last night/week/year etc
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Did you see the game on TV last night?
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The law was passed last August.
last (sb) two days/three weeks etc
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A good coat will last you ten years.
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Cut flowers will last longer if you put flower food in the water.
later in the day/week/year
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The dentist could fit you in later in the week.
later that day/morning/week etc
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The baby died later that night.
mid-morning/afternoon/week etc
next week/year/Monday etc
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We’re hoping to open the factory some time next year.
only yesterday/last week/recently
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‘When did you email her?’ ‘Only yesterday.’
pay sb £200 a week/$100 a day etc
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The cleaners are paid £5 an hour.
preceding days/weeks/months/years
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income tax paid in preceding years
starting (from) now/tomorrow/next week etc
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You have two hours to complete the test, starting now.
stay for a year/ten minutes/a week etc
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Isabel stayed for a year in Paris to study.
the day/week/year etc after (sth) (= the next day, week etc )
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His car was outside your house the morning after Bob’s engagement party.
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I’ll see you again tomorrow or the day after.
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She retired from politics the year after she received the Nobel Prize.
the end of the day/week/month etc
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Karen’s returning to the States at the end of the month.
the middle of the week/month/year etc
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Everything should be sorted out by the middle of next year.
the next day/week etc (= on or during the following day, week etc )
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She called me and we arranged to meet the next day.
the/sb’s few days/weeks etc
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She had enjoyed her few days in Monaco.
twelve weeks pregnant/two months pregnant etc
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The doctor said that she was eight weeks pregnant.
twice a day/week/year etc (= two times in the same day, week etc )
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Letters were delivered twice a week only.
two days/three weeks etc after (sth)
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Ten years after he bought the painting, Carswell discovered that it was a fake.
two days/three weeks/five years etc apart
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Our birthdays are exactly a month apart.
two years/three weeks etc later
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He became Senator two years later.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
last
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In the middle of the lawn last week there was a solitary sunbather, as naked as the day she was born.
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Its announcement last week extended until Jan. 22 its original, 45-day review period.
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An illusion, too, died at Gonesse last week .
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The group had been under severe pressure last week , extending the decline that shook those shares through the end of 1995.
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Mr Chaudhry was sacked by the president last week .
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C., his first stop outside of Washington last week .
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When Yeltsin checked into a hospital last week , aides first said he had the flu.
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McDonald last week overcame all financial misgivings and agreed to play baseball for the Baltimore Orioles organization.
■ VERB
announce
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The result, announced a week later, showed that De by had won with 67 % of the vote.
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Awardees, announced this week , included writers, scientists, artists and grass-roots leaders.
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Celera announced this week that it had finished sequencing the genome of that laboratory workhorse, the mouse.
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Details are expected to be announced next week .
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It announced this week that it was adding a top rate of 12.5 p.c. to its new Premier Fix account.
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Share allocation details will be announced next week .
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Gamble, announced last week that it would follow a direct response model for Web advertising.
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Laura Bush announced earlier this week that she would devote her time as first lady to recruiting new teachers.
meet
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I met Bob the first week I was at university.
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It meets every week to discuss community problems and arrange the distribution of tasks.
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An average class met three times a week for twenty weeks.
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I wondered whether to call and say I understood, I forgave her; we'd meet next week some time.
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We will be meeting once a week .
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Micheline sounded excited to hear from me and I was invited to the group's meeting a few weeks later.
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Level One meets four days a week .
spend
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Hundreds more were injured when police attacked the demonstration and Clarence Baker spent weeks close to death.
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I spent the next week and a half in a cold sweat.
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I spent a week there in March 1990 - taking my car and two friends.
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Stacy, who returned to campus yesterday after spending much of last week in Tennessee, praised the choice of Gonzalez.
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After her return, she had spent the first week weeping, conscious of her father's tight-lipped disappointment and indignant fury.
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When we got back from Berlin we spent a week out in the country at Beate's parents' weekend cottage.
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Because he had spent three weeks trying to gain that animal's trust and he had done it.
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We spend 6 weeks working with local churches doing outreach, and then have one final week of school.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I give it six weeks/a month etc
a day's march/two weeks' march etc
a matter of seconds/weeks/hours etc
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Already we read that within a matter of weeks the number of the believers was 120.
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At least 30 rounds went off in a matter of seconds.
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But these days, the time between orders and shipments has shrunk to a matter of weeks.
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Hay says that Sarin would normally degrade in an open environment in a matter of hours.
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It seemed to the rector that it all happened within a matter of seconds.
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Many other soy sauces are chemically produced in a matter of hours.
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More to the point, he prevailed on Amelia to write the text in a matter of weeks.
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The new cabinet and other ministerial appointments are announced within a matter of days, sometimes within a matter of hours.
a year/a week/a moment/an hour etc or two
days turned into weeks/months turned into years etc
for days/weeks etc on end
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Big dumps frequently bury lift-control shacks and loading ramps for days on end .
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Chained in an upright stance for weeks on end , iron collars about their necks, with no hope of reprieve.
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He would go off into the mountains for days on end .
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How you hate being shipped off to Long Island for weeks on end during the summer.
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Lately she stays in her house for days on end , goes out only to get food.
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Sometimes he would not leave his room for days on end .
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They'd be talking for days on end .
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Untouched, and for days on end , ignored, he was not a child and not a man.
for years/weeks/days etc to come
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Alice knew then that my father would haunt her for years to come .
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Even a couple of weeks down under will have you waltzing with Matilda for years to come .
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He spoke about that afternoon for days to come .
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It's the players who will suffer because of this, not just this week but for years to come .
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Mr Clark says his department will be collecting poll tax arrears for years to come .
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Prices then gave way to concern driving activity will be reduced for days to come .
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The responsibility was going to haunt him for years to come .
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We will be struggling with these issues for years to come .
give sb time/a few weeks/all day etc
months/weeks/ages yet
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But it could be several weeks yet before these children know the fate of their school.
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I know it will not be for some months yet , but time passes quickly.
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Indeed, it may beaver for many months yet .
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It was to last for some months yet .
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It will probably be some months yet before we get the final government reaction to our proposals.
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Sometimes they took little dancing steps, as their blood responded to rhythms that their descendants would not create for ages yet .
never let a day/week/year etc go by without doing sth
off day/week etc
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And besides, pretty women have such off days, don't they?
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If the defense has an off day, the offense usually steps up.
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Obviously the market is having an off day, and this is a marvellous opportunity for you to double your stake.
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On off days he could sound tired, and sometimes excitement carried him away to an excess of length.
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Perhaps Beau was having an off day?
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They must now get a result against free scoring Glenavon next Saturday and rely on Bangor having an off day at Comrades.
once a week/once every three months etc
passing days/weeks/years etc
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As a young woman, she was pretty, slender, and graceful and she remained so with the passing years.
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Dent is a throwback to medieval times bypassed by modern progress, an anachronism that has survived the passing years.
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Over the passing years, time had been cruel to nearly everybody else.
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Over the passing years, time had been kind to Caduta Massi.
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The passing years took their toll, of course, and he did go into a decline when Grandmother died.
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Through the passing days, the biting cruelty of it all slowly healed, leaving only the scar tissue.
per hour/day/week etc
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A group of mums working on a one day per week rota can look after the arrangements for this.
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Action potentials zip down axons at about 225 miles per hour.
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At room temperature, atoms normally fly around at speeds of hundreds or thousands of miles per hour.
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Make a conscious effort to drink less tea and coffee - about one or two cups per day.
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Pony treks from the East Farm are priced at £8 per hour, 7 days a week.
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Prices vary enormously for group holidays but a typical price would be somewhere in the region of £25 per person per day.
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Singe bikes cost $ 3. 50 per hour, tandems $ 5 per hour.
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These couples averaged 2.44 copulations per week.
take home £120 per week/$600 a month etc
ten minutes' worth/a week's worth etc of sth
the day/week etc after next
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From them I learned that the coronation was to be on the day after next , and not in three weeks.
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I think it might be the week after next .
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The case will be heard in London's High Court the week after next .
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We shall meet the day after next .
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We won't be able to cut the grass the week after next , as I'd hoped.
the day/week/month etc before
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And he also had long discussions with the actors when they rehearsed the dialogue during the week before shooting began.
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Barbara Walters found time the week before her swirl of Inaugural engagements as the date of Sen.
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Even the day before the King died!
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If she laid at dawn, like most birds, she would have to have prepared the day before .
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That is equivalent to the day before Thanksgiving, Black Wednesday, in industry parlance.
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The final winner will be announced the week before Super Bowl.
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The move came the day before high school players are allowed to sign letters-of-intent with college programs.
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The observers of gonorrhoea in the days before effective treatment was available vividly described the symptoms of acute gonococcal urethritis.
the day/week/year etc before last
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I didn't know myself where the house was until the week before last .
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In the week before last , claims rose by 22, 000.
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The Sunday newspaper articles had come out the week before last , and were still bringing in letters.
the other day/morning/week etc
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Another feller came the other day to get some, too.
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C., your man Stafford called the other day.
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He won on his seasonal debut at Chepstow last month and wasn't at all disgraced when third at Ascot the other day.
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I caught Cam looking at me the other day.
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I had a letter from Benedicta the other day.
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I just saw one the other day, buying cheese.
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Isn't the sea calmer than the other day?
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Yeah, she did that the other day in the car.
the year/week etc ending sth
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An interim dividend of 6p per ordinary share was paid on 1 April 1993 in respect of the year ending 31 December 1993.
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Copies of the most recent report for the year ending 31 March are in the Library.
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During the week ending last Tuesday 109 people in every 100,000 of the population had flu, and 154 had flu-like illnesses.
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Figures released today reported that in the year ending March 31 profits before tax were £10.3m compared with £7.7m in 1992.
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Group pre-tax profits for the year ending February 28 fell 12.5% to £1.2m.
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The bad-debt provisions are expected to knock £25m off profits for the year ending February.
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The company is aiming to break even at the pretax level in the year ending March 31.
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The company said it expects revenue of about $ 34. 5 million for the year ending June 30, 1996.
three weeks/two years etc now
two weeks/a month etc short of sth
working hours/day/week
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Apparently, too, Rosie enjoyed herself after working hours.
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At the end of the working day most of us retreat to families and/or partners and play other parts.
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Items must be posted at post office counters in advance of latest recommended posting times for next working day delivery.
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Remember, your spouse may not be used to having you home during working hours.
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The whole operation was based on 50 journeys or rounds, one for each vehicle on every working day of the week.
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These, as we now know, involve everything from environmental considerations to limits on the working hours of employees.
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They had only three working days in which to prepare the defence against the new charge.
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They took long lunches and went to barbershops, beauty parlors, bathhouses, and tearooms during working hours.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a 40-hour week
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I don't go out much during the week .
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It would probably take a week to hike that far.
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The class meets once a week .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the Financial Ombudsman Service this week published a briefing note for firms handling endowment mortgage complaints.
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At the end of the first week you will have a solid foundation on which to build in future weeks.
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He was discharged three weeks after admission, having recovered fully.
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Inspect stored fruit every week and throw out any that has started to go rotten.
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Johnny Haynes's £100 a week neither bankrupted Fulham nor killed the game.
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Just last week , I met a couple with four children under 10, all living in a van.
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The measure was overwhelmingly passed by both Houses of Congress this week .
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We will give all 16-19 year olds in work the equivalent of at least two days a week education or training.