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| если бы не (in the absence of (something or someone): without: If not for modern medicine, fewer babies would survive. If not for him, I wouldn't be where I am today. – often used in the phrases if it were not for and if it had not been for: If it were not for your donations, many more children would go hungry. If it hadn't been for him, I wouldn't be where I am today. MWALD Alexander Demidov) | |||
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if not for : 36 phrases in 8 subjects |
| Contextual meaning | 1 |
| General | 14 |
| Informal | 1 |
| Literature | 2 |
| Makarov | 8 |
| Programming | 2 |
| Proverb | 5 |
| Rhetoric | 3 |