"number" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His draft number was 21, so while he waited to see if he would be chosen to serve, he drove an ambulance in Chicago.
- A very high draft number, in those days, helped a man to keep calm about the war.
- I'd been old enough to serve in Vietnam, but had avoided conscription because of a fortuitously high draft number.
- But they know that having a great career is more important than having a great draft number.
- The list was as scrutinized as anxiously as draft numbers in an earlier generation.
- Clinton didn't simply escape military service with a high draft number.
- He was unlucky enough to have a high draft number, and in December 1970 he got his notice.
- My draft number was 351, and they stopped taking people at 120.
- There is gloom when an underclassman looks more closely at the draft numbers.
- A spokesman for Mr. Bush said the governor had received the short form, this year's equivalent of announcing you got a high draft number.
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