COLLOCATIONS

Herding cats
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Put one of the following words in each of the
sentences below:
next, time-consuming, matter, surely,
twinkling, nick, immemorial, kill
long-standing, time
1 Let's leave it at that for the .             being and
continue tomorrow.
2 Slowly but .              the band is becoming more and
more popular.
3 In the ..... ... of an eye the swindler had vanished,
never to ,return.
1 4 In . ...          to no time they had become the best of
friends.
5 The Whittington family have lived there since
time . .
6 1 arrived in the ..........          of time to prevent a
potential disastet
7 1 wandered around the city centre to . . . . . . ... time
before my appointment.
8 Cooking good French food can be a very ..........
job.
9 They had a . .. .          agreement to keep each other
fully informed of developments.
10 In a .                           of minutes the whole building had
been razed to the ground.
SOURCE: Grammar and vocabulary for Cambridge Advanced Learners.
Key:

1 time 2 surely 3 twinkling 4 next
5 immemorial 6 nick 7 kill 8 timeconsuming
9 long-standing 10 matter

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