heavy bombardment

collocation in English

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heavy
adjective
uk
/ˈhev.i/us
/ˈhev.i/
weighing a lot, and needing effort to move ...
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bombardment
noun[C or U]
uk
/bɒmˈbɑːd.mənt/us
/bɑːmˈbɑːrd.mənt/
a continuous attack on a place with guns ...
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Even after sufferingheavybombardment, community networks were still able to function and continued to facilitate the generation of morale.
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This temperature control has permitted life to evolve as early as the end of theheavybombardment4 billion years ago.
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These ports are used as reinforcement ports, and they must be kept underheavybombardment.
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He delivered a veryheavybombardmenton my colleagues, with verbal shells of very high calibre.
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But theheavybombardmentof the city continued.
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During the broadcast there were sounds ofheavybombardment.
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The town fell after a week ofheavybombardment.
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The antisubmarine squadrons were redesignated asheavybombardmentsquadrons.
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Later that year it became aheavybombardmentunit.
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They feel strongly about the matter, both as it concerns themselves and as it concerns relatives injured byheavybombardment.
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It would have been quite easy to make absolutely sure of the landings and all that byheavybombardment, but that we most carefully avoided.
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Theheavybombardmentcommenced and the units began to fall back to the river.
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Also, further evaluate the equivalent airspeed and compression tactics forheavybombardmentaircraft.
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After guarding preassault minesweeping, she joined in theheavybombardmentprior to the landing.
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In this period the village was subjected to aheavybombardmentand reduced to rubble.
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The heavily cratered southern highlands date back to the period ofheavybombardment.
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The walls were undermined by mining and seven days ofheavybombardment.
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This left the rebels underheavybombardmentand caught in a pincer.
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However, the flat island offered no other protection against theheavybombardment.
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This hypothesis is referred to as the lunar cataclysm or lateheavybombardment.
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Approximately 3,500 troops, supported by aheavybombardment, attempted to land, but were caught under fire in the river shallows.
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These fractures may have provided egress for the eruption of the oldest plains material during the period ofheavybombardment.
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Lucien immediately set about repairing the ravages of war to the fortified palace which had been damaged byheavybombardment.
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Soviet-backed government troops surrounded the city and subjected it toheavybombardmentin which many civilians lost lives.
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