train robber

collocation in English

meaningsoftrainandrobber

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train
noun
uk
/treɪn/us
/treɪn/
a railway engine connected to carriages for carrying people or to wheeled containers for ...
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robber
noun[C]
uk
/ˈrɒb.ər/us
/ˈrɑː.bɚ/
someone ...
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(Definition oftrainandrobberfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is easy enough if a man is atrainrobber, although 30 years ago the parole system had not come in.
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It was not done until anothertrainrobberescaped.
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It is equally true in relation to train robbers, spies and all who are sentenced to long terms.
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One can be a land speculator—some of them make the train robbers look like juvenile delinquents.
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The train robbers were given 30 years for £2½ million.
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It is not possible to make any reliable estimate of the cost to the taxpayer of dealing with the train robbers.
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Let us take, for example, the case of the train robbers, two of whom have just recently escaped.
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The train robbers, about whom we read every day, would have nothing to do with the criminal psychopath.
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It is not possible to estimate the total costs incurred in dealing with the train robbers.
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I do not think that the train robbers would have stopped at anything in pursuance of their plan.
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It has been disastrous, more disastrous than any of the escapes of the train robbers.
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It puts the train robbers' escape organisation to the shade.
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The most startling is the obvious recent example where sentences of 30 years were passed on the mail train robbers.
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Would he therefore have hanged the train robbers instead of committing them to prison?
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It may apply to train robbers, if you can find out where they put the money, or to bank robbers; but the proportion is small.
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The 30-year sentences given to the train robbers seemed at the time much stronger than the life sentence.
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A certain amount of glamour was attached to those escapes, like the glamour attached to the great train robbers.
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We have seen quite lately the concern in the minds of many people at the treatment of the train robbers.
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The train robbers are adequately supervised from the staff point of view.
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No two train robbers are in the same prison.
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