I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a young child
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Young children are naturally curious about the world.
a young infant
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The never-ending demands of a young infant can be very stressful for parents.
a young learner (= a learner who is a child )
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The activities are good for young learners.
a younger brother
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Do you have any younger brothers?
a younger sister
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Mary showed a lot of aggressive behaviour towards her younger sister.
a young/middle-aged/elderly couple
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A young couple with a baby have just moved into the house next door.
a young/teenage audience
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a magazine with a young audience
at an early/young age
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Kids can start learning a second language at a young age.
die young
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They had seven children and three of them died young.
from an early/young age
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She’d been playing the piano from a very early age.
little/small/young girl
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I’ve known Mollie ever since I was a little girl.
married young (= at a young age )
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She married young .
the younger generation
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The party needs to make its policies appeal to the younger generation too.
young hopefuls
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Thousands of young hopefuls were auditioned for the role.
young lad
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a young lad
young lovers
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a pair of young lovers
young offender
young/old folk British English old-fashioned
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Young folk these days don’t know the meaning of work.
young/old/elderly etc lady
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
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Fear, rage and awe contend in me - such talent for deception in one so young !
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Second and third graders are still so young .
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She was so young , scarcely older than some of his pupils.
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She was so young , and a real beauty.
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She had not realised that they were so young .
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Yesterday he would have been fifty-nine. So young , Primo thinks.
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She was so young , so full of life.
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It must be nice to be so young and to be able to touch some one for no reason at all.
too
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It looked strange and far too young .
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Probably he was too young for them.
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But, all young . Too young to be Regent, I say.
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She knows the team is too young and too raw to make much of a showing this season.
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I was too young to exercise my intellectual force to demolish prejudices that made me sick.
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She was 14, too young to be on a world stage.
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He wore a black leather coat, too young for him if he had looked his age.
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Self-reliance was the lesson, but it was intended for those too young to understand it.
very
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All the girls were skilled at farm work, work they had done since they were very young .
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They were tough, highly trained volunteers in the Airborne, but some looked very young to me.
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She's very young , only a girl really, and it takes time to get used to this funny little country.
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In its current manifestation, the Berlin band looks very young and substantially female and sounds extremely enthusiastic.
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How to increase joy Think back to when you were very young .
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I was fifteen, remember. Very young .
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The very young can stop feeding and rapidly become very ill.
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Other chapter books are, of course, emotionally inappropriate for very young children.
■ NOUN
age
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There are a number of species generally similar to this one in rocks of Cretaceous and younger age .
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Consequently, he learned to be self-sufficient at a young age .
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Species resembling this one in general shape are met with in rocks of Cretaceous and younger age .
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Other justices seemed concerned with the young age of the grade-school children involved.
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This was a big step for me and put me on the road to caddying top tournaments at a very young age .
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These women were old and toothless at a young age , their eyes bereft of hope.
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Richard Lewis has expanded the Bisham Abbey squad and they have started to select children at a younger age than before.
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From a very young age he had an extraordinary in-built ability to focus.
boy
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Then they were asked to look at a young boy .
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The younger boys were not deaf, it turned out.
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Dauntless had been a young boy then, newly recruited into the order and eager to prove himself worthy.
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But his dismissal was too abrupt for young boys .
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The young boy was running down the road towards Martin with a posse of four helpers close behind.
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By the time Derek Dashwood first saw it as a young boy in 1952, it was falling into disrepair.
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And young boys grin over their first pint of cider.
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A younger boy , six or so, sits on the seat of the moped and watches them.
brother
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They assist their parents in feeding their new younger brothers and sisters and in defending them from predators such as snakes.
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Only the youngest brother , Goiko, kept his word and said nothing of the matter to his wife.
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I do not kneel to the younger brothers and sisters, but I owe them respect.
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Gelon of Syracuse had left his younger brother Hiero in charge of Gela.
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Cameron was educated at home in a remote farmhouse with his younger brother and sister by parents Val and Phil.
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The struggle continues in the light of day in two stories which tell how he, the younger brother , gets the better of Esau.
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She bitterly resented her husband's domination by his younger brother .
child
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This is especially important in a home with young children .
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Certainly, younger children show affection and have feelings of liking and disliking.
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For example, young children are held less liable than older children.
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Tale-telling on each other and inciting each other to be naughty are frequent problems faced by parents of young children .
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The youngest child was wearing a soiled diaper.
couple
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She sighed, and wondered if all she had done to help the young couple could possibly have been worth it.
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And there was this terrific young couple , Herb, deep in lust and love.
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A young couple and the wife's parents bought a house together but only the younger couple were registered as owners.
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On our other side a young couple wandered by and plopped down with only a six-pack and a sleeping bag.
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Time allowed 00:18 Read in studio Eight young couples are living in new homes thanks to a village's own housing scheme.
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A starter home is for young couples on the way up.
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The idea is stop young couples from moving away.
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A young couple I know has just been blessed with a new baby boy.
daughter
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Actually standing beside him was Matthew's younger daughter Clare.
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He certainly did not treat her as a little princess, a status that youngest daughters in some families enjoy.
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When we moved from Durham to Bristol our youngest daughter was ten.
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The parents left three young daughters behind.
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On 9 July 1877 Matcham married Robinson's younger daughter Maria, by whom he had two daughters.
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Every time the father took a wrong guess, the youngest daughter laughed loudly.
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The poor man left a widow and a young daughter .
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In the row directly in front of us sat a father and his young daughter .
family
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Demographics: Are there a lot of young families ?
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Some years back, when he had a young family , Lewry joined his local National Trust centre.
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There are a lot of young families in the neighborhood and I see kids playing on bikes, which I really like.
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Younger lawyers often have greater need for current cash to support young families and pay off educational loans and mortgages.
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A more dramatic change for the youngest family member came in the new year.
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Wootton had already gone home: he had a young family and a termagant wife.
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There are good swimming beaches each end of town with shallow sandy water, ideal for young families .
generation
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The younger generation did seem less committed to the politics of the street demonstration and the illegal parade.
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Basic compassion, not just for the old but for the younger generation too, lies at the heart of this idea.
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Voice over It's a recruiting ground for the younger generation and a meeting place for old friends like Billy Connolly.
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I began to encounter a younger generation .
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But, again, it's the same young generation of women making it this far.
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For the younger generation , they have no knowledge of the history, so they think it is very interesting.
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Rock and roll, which arrived for me in 1958, had completely severed the younger generation from its elders.
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Barred from selling shares to outsiders, some of the younger generation of Moores are keen to realise their enormous paper wealth.
girl
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I think his pleasure was merely to talk about it in that calm way to a completely ignorant young girl .
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In college he loved a young girl of a lower class and ruined her; she died a suicide.
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The shoes she had when she was a young girl .
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A pretty young girl , who looked a little like Gabby.
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I was just a young girl from a small planet and I felt very unimportant here.
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In it she tries to justify the vindictiveness with which she treated the young girl .
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Yet it is the head movements of the young girl as she dances to Pie Jesu that are so telling.
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After Rubin Stacy was lynched, young girls were allowed to view the body.
lad
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Hadn't he actually been elected to the State Senate - old Jack Ryan's youngest lad ?
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They've put together a side of young lads and journeyman pros, and that is meant as a compliment.
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Two young lads from Hafnarfjödur, a small fishing village near Reykjavik, were going like loonies.
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He's a young lad who was employed in the house here, living in.
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He had been a recruit in his class, a bright young lad .
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A young lad , a boy; probably still an adolescent and little for his age at that.
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There was scope here for a young lad with ability.
lady
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Many young ladies will mourn Steven's departure.
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Stephens collected samplers done by young ladies from prominent Eastern families who attended female academies.
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The Senior Management team were evidently congratulating themselves on having recruited such an able young lady .
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That's the young lady you saw at Wuthering Heights, Mr Lockwood.
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She hadn't known Mr Arkwright was thinking of getting married; and what a lovely young lady !
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The young lady doctor had said ten minutes, but they must have been here twenty.
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Ann did most of the cooking, assisted occasionally, by the young ladies and teachers.
man
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The hotel was almost empty and all the young men had been drafted into the army.
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Dvorah dear, this is the young man .
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One day, after the play, he was talking to a young man outside the Rose.
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Was the future of the Rabari incarnate in this young man ?
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There was moreover, a young man in the congregation who lapsed into this sin.
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Madam Sahib, it is because he is a young man .
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The younger man agreed to fly back to Swindon with Wiltshire detectives.
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He shook his head to drive away some bottleneck flies straying from the vile puddle in front of the horse-faced young man .
offender
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A few children's homes have been opened but they also double as reformatories for young offenders .
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Sentence: three years' detention in a young offender institution.
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My Department is providing £200,000 this financial year to motor projects dealing with young offenders , thereby keeping them out of custody.
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Punishing the criminal Home secretary Jack Straw has a policy of placing more young offenders in custody.
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They say the centre, to be based at a former young offenders institution, will treat refugees as criminals.
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Putting young offenders into a prison or other custodial establishment does not deter them from offending.
people
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One approach was to read these young people the riot act and let them repent or retreat.
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Among the issues considered were homelessness, unemployment, children and young people in poverty and the benefits systems.
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Yet in our society we systematically separate young people from adults.
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Educating young people to drink responsibly and in moderation is best achieved by parents setting a good example.
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Almost 2. 5 million young people were attending college.
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Many young people with the encouragement of their parents, left home at this time to avoid these responsibilities.
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One of the main issues today is the future of young people .
person
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Dominic's show-off fact: He was the youngest person ever to run for London Mayor.
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And so when I talk to a young person I have a captive audience.
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When a child or young person is received into care a placement with a carer or carers has to be made.
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The uncommon 7-year-old wanted to be the youngest person to pilot a plane across the country.
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The breakthrough for the young person who has left their family home is different.
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It was an extraordinary time for a young person like Alvin, black and a dancer, to arrive in New York.
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But it failed to discuss how consent should be interpreted where children, young persons and the mentally backward are concerned.
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Immobilization produces increased bone resorption resulting in hypercalcemia and hypercalciuria, and is particularly severe in young persons .
player
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Jamie, 18, is Boro's young player of the year while Sean, also 18, plays for the Quakers.
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There are too many good prospects in each system, promising young players no organization wishes to lose.
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She is a good role model for young players with her excellent attitude and obvious love of the game.
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The show will start with Napoleon Kaufman, the most dynamic young player in the game.
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Wayne Williams took the top scorer's award and David Flinn was the chosen as the best young player .
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But I didn't feel like I had the right as a young player to just come in an act like that.
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Vijay Singh and Paul Broadhurst are just two examples of young players with real potential who have obviously benefited from the experience.
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These were young players , too young.
sister
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She eats the eggs laid by her daughter, whose sole job is to raise her own young sisters .
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Two younger sisters have also joined the force.
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Hathi had come with us because no one could imagine our youngest sister , Rose, without him.
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She was the glamorous, daring one-Muriel was the younger , timid, plump, solemn younger sister .
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It was high time some one took his young sister down a peg.
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Despite our differences, though, they treated me like a younger sister .
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I refuse to allow you to inspect my cellars simply because you have seen my young sister carrying a torch.
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The survivors were Nietzsche himself and a younger sister .
son
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Other birds stood on Tallis, pecked at her, pecked at the charred flesh of the youngest son .
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Some say that Diomedes went with him and others Neoptolemus, also called Pyrrhus, the young son of Achilles.
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At the date of this book, 1569, the press had been taken over by Aldus's youngest son , Paulus.
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Redmond is Harry Trench, a new doctor and youngest son of landed gentry with a small investment income.
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The Mellors and their two young sons became regular guests at the Garrads' home at Frinton-on-Sea, Essex.
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Lord Douglas lived in the castle, and his young son , William, liked me.
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He was the youngest son of a poor parson.
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William's young son , Edwin, plays on the Adventure Playground nearby.
woman
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Myeloski had been joined by a young woman in her early twenties.
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Softball is played on the college level by young women .
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This story of a self-obsessed young woman wears thin well before her world comes to its crashing end.
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At the time, the necessary math was done by a group of young women using mechanical desk calculators.
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It's not every day a young woman pulls a gun on a burglar.
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Two young women flag me down.
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And in the village of Marlott, following ancient custom, the young women gathered to dance every holiday.
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Gibson began to draw what he was interested in most: beautiful young women .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
little/young ones
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As Jack goes on hunting, the little ones look at him as an expert.
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Bowel frequency, for example, was little greater in the older patients than in the younger ones .
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Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!
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Helping with academic or social tasks, the older children develop a sense of responsibility for the younger ones in the building.
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Mr Preston had recently cleared out his old trees and planted new young ones .
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Older respondents tend to state their replies in honorifics; younger ones are less reverential.
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The older kids were at school and two of the women had taken the younger ones to the park.
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They were thinking of wives and little ones far away, and wondering if they would ever see them again.
start young
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You have to start young if you want to be a great musician.
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Awareness of personal attitudes to ageing has to start young.
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But protest comes from awareness and today awareness starts young.
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But they say the best pilots start young and David Leech will have to wait till August for his first solo.
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With many sexually active before their sixteenth birthday and with drug taking on the increase, education needs to start young.
young blood
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It's about time we got some young blood in this company.
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But Kit wasn't having some young blood replace his female prizes.
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He stopped once to look at the young blood sleeping among the Begonias.
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Leaning over the parapet to watch the young bloods in the river sprucing up their horses for the fair.
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Well, that 25-yard volley makes it two-nil to the young bloods .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Impact" is a lively young company which specializes in public relations.
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a single mother with two young children
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As a country, Zimbabwe is still quite young .
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At 35, he is the youngest person to hold this office.
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He's a perfectly respectable young man.
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Her youngest son works for a television company.
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In just a week, you can have younger, smoother skin.
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Most banks are keen to loan money to promising young businesses.
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Sometimes I forget you're younger than I am.
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There was a young pine tree in the back yard.
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When I was younger, I used to play a lot of baseball.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In 1900 she married Stephen Townesend, a young doctor with stage aspirations whom she had tried to help.
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It is hard to discard traditional notions of what young people need to succeed in the economy.
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Most were hired annually, and the employment did give young women a measure of choice and relative economic independence.
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Next time I saw Joe he looked maybe not 10 years younger but certainly a totally different man and ready to rock.
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Such seriousness, intensity, and power in a young man set him apart and left an impression on others.
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The young man, sputtering now, rested his long head-which seemed to swell and turn a mahogany color-against the tree trunk.
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The pressures on young people - especially students - to use drugs are increasing.
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The story began when a young man attended a party in Mournacre Hill, a suburb of Leicester.
II. noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an old head on young shoulders
little/young ones
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As Jack goes on hunting, the little ones look at him as an expert.
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Bowel frequency, for example, was little greater in the older patients than in the younger ones .
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Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!
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Helping with academic or social tasks, the older children develop a sense of responsibility for the younger ones in the building.
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Mr Preston had recently cleared out his old trees and planted new young ones .
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Older respondents tend to state their replies in honorifics; younger ones are less reverential.
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The older kids were at school and two of the women had taken the younger ones to the park.
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They were thinking of wives and little ones far away, and wondering if they would ever see them again.
sb the Younger
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Pliny the Younger
start young
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You have to start young if you want to be a great musician.
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Awareness of personal attitudes to ageing has to start young.
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But protest comes from awareness and today awareness starts young.
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But they say the best pilots start young and David Leech will have to wait till August for his first solo.
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With many sexually active before their sixteenth birthday and with drug taking on the increase, education needs to start young.
young blood
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It's about time we got some young blood in this company.
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But Kit wasn't having some young blood replace his female prizes.
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He stopped once to look at the young blood sleeping among the Begonias.
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Leaning over the parapet to watch the young bloods in the river sprucing up their horses for the fair.
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Well, that 25-yard volley makes it two-nil to the young bloods .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Kangaroos carry their young in a pouch.
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The mother bird's main concern is to provide food for her young .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But at least the young have education on their side.
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Low-ranking females will have young of whatever gender leaves the troop in order not to saddle the young with low rank.
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Status pays, because females at the top get more meat and have twice as many young as do others.