"contract" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- By degrees we appeared to contract our search within narrower and easier limits.
- Of the 11 cases contracted within the United States, eight came from bat-transmitted strains of the disease.
- Therefore, beginning in the late 4th century, the empire often contracted whole bands of barbarians either within the legions or as autonomous foederati.
- After 2005, the company contracted their locations to exclusively within the Chicago metropolitan area.
- The resolution to this was to contract the workload within Western Europe, using the skilled civilian technicians of various airlines' workforce.
- Many mothers who contract rubella within the first critical trimester either have a miscarriage or a still born baby.
- Prince Yoshihito contracted cerebral meningitis within three weeks of his birth, leaving him in poor health.
- Uranium miners who smoke, for example, can contract lung cancer within 8 to 10 years, four times faster than smokers in other jobs.
- Thus, the muscle merely remains contracted for longer than normal (myotonia) but will relax and be able to contract again within a short period.
- But the findings were limited to those who contracted the disease within 10 years of their service in Vietnam.
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