old mill
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoldandmill
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old
adjective
uk/əʊld/us/oʊld/
having lived or existed for ...
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mill
noun[C]
uk/mɪl/us/mɪl/
a building where grain is crushed ...
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(Definition ofoldandmillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It occurred on the site of anoldmillthat had been cleared away.
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Some of theoldmillproperties have been taken over by other industries.
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With the aid of city council funding, it has made a study into the re-use of theoldmill.
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They are not allowed to do so, and theoldmillwill not do for their purpose.
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It will be very difficult in some cases to transfer workers, even from anoldmill, to one that has been modernised.
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The factory is built within anoldmill, which had become derelict, in the village.
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There is anoldmillhouse with anoldmillwheel still turning.
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I can perhaps retail some of the corporation's experiences in its search foroldmillpremises suitable for conversion.
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Theoldmillnow makes spiral staircases and employs 20 people.
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A multitude of goods are produced from these small firms, not on huge industrial estates, but in theoldmilltowns.
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Anoldmillhas been converted to other purposes.
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I submit that that is the reverse of the truth, because we have so many of the older schools in ouroldmilland other towns.
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In my constituency, there is anoldmill, which, in spite of several attempts to revive it, is on its last legs and no longer producing.
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Theoldmillis gone.
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There is anoldmillwhich has a roof which is two acres, and that now has rates of £13,000 a year because it is all under one roof.
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In my own village, anoldmillthat had fallen into disuse after the family that ran it got into economic difficulties has just been converted and restored.
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Rumour has reached this piousoldmill-owner that the young sceptic, who was going around saying that there was something fundamentally wrong with every religion, wanted to marry his daughter.
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Varna street school is housed in a 90-year-old building on a cramped inner-city site, sandwiched between a railway station, a scrapyard and anoldmill.
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About 1870, a textile mill was established on the site of theoldmill.
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The town gives up the chase, despite the very slow speed of the float, and goes to theoldmillto get some cider.
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