hive of activity

collocation in English

meaningsofhiveandactivity

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hive
noun
uk
/haɪv/us
/haɪv/
a structure where bees live, either built by people or made by the bees ...
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activity
noun
uk
/ækˈtɪv.ə.ti/us
/ækˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/
the situation in which a lot of things are happening or people are ...
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(Definition ofhiveandactivityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Since he has taken office, the second pillar has been ahiveofactivity.
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The whole place is ahiveofactivity.
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The area was ahiveofactivity, but in the early 1960s we let the coal mines go.
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Our discussions will be informed by the results of thehiveofactivitythat is taking place at the moment in that field.
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It was ahiveofactivitywhen the coalfield was centred more towards the east.
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I pay tribute to all that is being done within thathiveofactivity, particularly in high technology.
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Before the last war it was ahiveofactivitywith factories, a gas works and power stations.
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During the daytime, they are more or less ahiveofactivity.
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The tunnels are ahiveofactivityand an essential one.
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I think that the tendency will be for it to become less residential and even more sparsely occupied outside working hours and still ahiveofactivityduring the day.
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It was ahiveofactivity.
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It is a sight for sore eyes to go down to the docklands and see thishiveofactivityin an area which 10 years ago was completely derelict.
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It is now ahiveofactivity.
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It is ahiveofactivity.
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The campsite, once a bustlinghiveofactivity, was quickly becoming a ghost town.
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Each railway had dozens of tugs and the harbor was ahiveofactivity.
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A moment before, the set had been ahiveofactivity, but now no one was moving.
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Once again, the town had become ahiveofactivity.
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In its heyday, the basin was a major transshipment facility, and ahiveofactivity.
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Stripped of the veneer of materiality they are revealed not as quiescent objects but as hives of activity, pulsing with the flows of materials that keep them alive.
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