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She was given the award for a lifetime of public ____. 

We worked…..how much of our salaries we would have to save each year.

The explosion has caused us a lot of problems. It has probably set us ________ by a year or more.

He_____ have committed the crime because he was with me that day. 

There's a rumor that the National Bank is going to take ________ the company I work for.

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The post is the public service or system by which letters and ___ are collected and delivered.

All the plans have been put ________ for the time being.

Their aim is to ________ up a new political party.

A number of workers … asked for a rise since last month.
 

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Survivors said that Tangshan, an industrial city of one million people 160 kilometers east of Peking, was completely  ……..

What does D.C. in Washington D.C. __________?

Choose the correct answer to complete the sentence. "How _____ is it from here to the town centre?"

The doctor advised me not to take ________ so much work in future.

 Jane _____ have kept her word. I wonder why she changed her mind. 

_____ it rain tomorrow, we will put off the visit to the Marble Mountains. 

The truth turned ________ to be stranger than we had expected.

He _____ you more help, even though he was very busy. 

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Severe flooding has brought trains to a ____ on several lines in Scotland .

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Last month the old man ___________ in the hospital for some days

Choose the correct answer to complete the sentence. "I believe people ______ have a better life in the future"

Choose the correct answer to complete the sentence. " Neither Mary ____ her two brothers like sport."