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She transformed an institution housed in a rented, sixteen-room house into a fully fledged hospital.

Will Tresco feel artificial without its fully fledged hotel?

Training and development - from induction to fully fledged tax professional.

"I look at an insect as the work of a fully fledged artist," he said.

As one thing led to another, the family funday became a fully fledged music festival.

This was due to Tie Racks development into a fully fledged fashion accessories retailer.

When he was a fully fledged Fool he'd slept, by tradition, curled up in front of his master's door.

The revamp turned the clinic into a fully fledged hospital and several departments considered to be no further use were closed.

Firstly, this was yet another skirmish and not a glorious fully fledged battle.

Within five years he had become a fully fledged art director.

Quite suddenly the plan came fully fledged into his mind.

Since then it has been functioning as fully fledged commercial bank.

By 1981 the field study centre was a fully fledged environmental studies laboratory.

They were fully fledged already, and almost as large as their mother.

Of course they are not fully fledged at the moment, but people are working on that.

Often, however, only one will survive to leave the nest, with the others dying before becoming fully fledged.

And at the next session they will become fully fledged members of the United Nations.

But at this time it was still possible to talk only about tribes, not fully fledged empires.

Benson was later employed as a "fully fledged" regular cast member.

The idea of the merger came from the Russian president's staff, who thought there should be a fully fledged two-party system.