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Your company has had a long and fruitful ______ with mine. |
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We had to choose from a motley ______ of candidates. |
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She wants me to carry out a special ______ for her. |
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I became involved in a heated ______ with him about this. |
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| 5 |
I'm afraid to say I think your plan starts from an unfounded ______ . |
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| 6 |
I think we made a hasty ______ of this project and we need to carry out a fresh one. |
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| 7 |
Before we continue I need to ask for a categorical ______ that you will treat all information as confidential. |
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| 8 |
I'm fed up of him putting forward wild ______ with no basis in fact. |
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| 9 |
I don't think we can reach agreement by ourselves. We need to submit this to ______. |
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| 10 |
It hasn't come yet but we are awaiting its imminent ______ . |
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| 11 |
You need to improve the hostile ______ in your office. |
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association |
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| 12 |
We both had our own ideas of what to do but we came to an amical ______ . |
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| 13 |
We mustn't pass over the more worrying ______ of this scheme, the job losses. |
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| 14 |
His crude ______ to have me dismissed went badly wrong. |
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| 15 |
I'm pleased to say that you have shown a marked ______ for this type of work. |
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| 16 |
He published a brilliant ______ on this subject. |
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| 17 |
I'm worried about the Stock Market and I've decided to build up my liquid ______ . |
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| 18 |
I got vital ______ from our Munich office. |
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| 19 |
It was easy to shrug off such a crude personal ______ . |
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| 20 |
As the meeting went on and on, most people's ______ wandered. |
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