surviving fragment

collocation in English

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surviving
adjective[before noun]
uk
/səˈvaɪ.vɪŋ/us
/sɚˈvaɪ.vɪŋ/
continuing to live ...
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fragment
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfræɡ.mənt/us
/ˈfræɡ.mənt/
a small piece or a part, especially when broken from ...
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(Definition ofsurvivingandfragmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This implies that the largestsurvivingfragmentin this particle size range is on average approximately 20 % of the original projectile diameter.
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All staves which remain blank would have belonged to the companion composition, which only partially survives on staves 1 and 2 of thesurvivingfragmentand is thereby unrecoverable.
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They could be tinned as well, onesurvivingfragmentshowing bronze scales that were alternately tinned and plain.
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The largestsurvivingfragmentof the range comprises a "cellarium" or storehouse where supplies were kept.
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The two-light window in the east wall is a modern reconstruction based on asurvivingfragment.
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The original size of the leaf is unknown; thesurvivingfragmentis 10 by 2 cm.
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Asurvivingfragmentof the original wall will be retained in the new theatre.
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The oldestsurvivingfragmentis dated to 1519-1525, though the poem is probably older.
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Thesurvivingfragmenthas only 2 lines.
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Thesurvivingfragmentbegins here.
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The surviving fragments of his work show an uncritical author, without strong sources, who prefers rhetoric to fact.
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The "cella" has a mosaic floor, the surviving fragments of which depict dolphins, fish and sea monsters.
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It is not clear from the surviving fragments if a trap is being used, as was common in depictions of such expeditions.
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There are many surviving fragments of the text.
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However, poetry is not an ideal genre for communicating facts and very little detailed information can be derived from the surviving fragments.
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Surviving fragments have been published from 1948 and onward, the main part in book form in 1949.
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Consequently, the surviving fragments of the manuscript are of no use in determining the hand or the date of the destroyed folio of the poem.
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It is one of the finest surviving fragments of classical book illustration.
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The play has been lost except for a few surviving fragments.
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From the surviving fragments, we see that the original contained considerable quotations from ancient authors, besides many interesting particulars, topographical, historical, mythological, and others.
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