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na | family with many children |
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na | long family |
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na | a multi-child family |
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na | large family |
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na | large family |
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family with many children Explanation: family with many children Lingvo 6.0 ... I was brought up in a family with many children. There were ten of us. I was the eldest. I also wanted to have many children ... www.jhuccp.org/pubs/field_reports/fr10/chap4.html ... I want so much to have a good family with many children. But something happened with our men... They are so cruel and brutal. They have no spiritual values at ... singlewomen.hypermart.net/ |
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long family Explanation: long family — очень большая /многодетная/ семья large small family — многодетная семья Multilex 2.0 Hope it can help you. Best Regards, Serge |
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a multi-child family Explanation: I think this works better than trying to turn the phrase around. |
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large family Explanation: просто по-английски "многодетная семья" -- "large family" |
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large family Explanation: In the Soviet Union and Russia this means a family with many children, for which certain privileges are granted by the state. Other equivalents: long family, family with many children. A.I.Smirnitsky. Russian-English Dictionary, 1989. Yu.D.Apresyan. New English-Russian Dictionary. 1993. |
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