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(in a) long time; long time (ago); while (ago); long ago; long while (ago); (in a) long while

4

newly arrived; newly received

4

bed sheets

1

antique

1

ornament; decoration

1

tender; warm; meticulous; detailed; deep (of a colour); thick (e.g. fog)

2

octave

3

skillful; skilful; adroit; clever; shrewd; ingenious

1

to overlap

1

Last Christmas

1

to be convinced (that); to be under the impression (that); to make up one's mind; to set one's heart on; to be obsessed (with a thought, idea, etc.); to think about obsessively

2

lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend

2

tragic

1

trivial; not amounting to much; not enough to cause a problem; not as much as expected

1

to wave; to shake; to sprinkle; to throw (dice); to cast (actor); to allocate (work); to turn down (someone)

2

comparatively; relatively; fairly; rather; pretty; unexpectedly

2

miserable; pitiable; shameful; deplorable; pathetic

2

explanatory note; explanatory text; explanation; caption

3

occasion; time; section (of a literary work or piece of music); passage; clause; season; term

3

what day; how many days

2

to count; to enumerate

5

calendar; calender (machine for flattening things)

1

confections; sweets; candy; cake

1

week

2

substitute for ...

1

candle

1

baked sweet goods (e.g. Danish pastry, melon bread); sweet pastry; sweet bread

1

thin slice; slicing thin

1

to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

9

arrival; coming; advent

1

longed-for; anxiously awaited

1

social networking service; SNS; social media

2

check (pattern); plaid; check; inspection; check (mark); tick; checking (something) out

3

large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)

3

truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; indeed; really

1

to disappear (of people or animals); to go (away); to leave; to no longer exist

2

sex change; gender reassignment; sex change; sequential hermaphroditism

1

stage name

2

each place; various places

1

powerful; strong

1

performance (e.g. music, dance, drama); something done (just) for show; theatre; performance (of a computer, car, investment, etc.)

3

intended for ...; oriented towards ...; aimed at ...

1

to take shape; to look good enough to be shown publicly

1

accompanying (someone); going with; travelling together; the same bank; the said bank

1

cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)

3

what color

1

coherence; order; focus; point

1

bubble; foam; froth; suds; lather; head (on beer)

3

to fall asleep

1

participation; joining; entry

3