tranche

Preposition: of

• funding: I'm applying for a second tranche of funding.
• money: At the practical level the aqueduct has provided match funding for us to obtain a substantial tranche of European money.
• fund: Maybe they're raising a small tranche of funds now and more later.
• project: An initial tranche of 22 projects was funded by the ESRC to look into the myriad aspects of this question.
• plan: Action: MM 3. Second Tranche Action Plans Esther reported on progress toward drafting second tranche of action plans.
• material: A third tranche of material, on the officers of the Commons, will shortly be written up.

Converse of object

• release: The LDC released a further tranche of data of similar size in 1998 ( about 71 hours of data ).
• sell: It could also raise funds by selling a further tranche of its remaining holding in Vivendi Environnement.
• provide: Could a revival in social democracy provide a new tranche of politically inspired union activists?
• deliver: The project was organized to deliver the first tranche of object records by April 2003.
• receive: The US accepted this because she had to accept it, and indeed, the UK received the largest tranche of Marshall aid.
• see: Yesterday saw the final tranche of money released from the European Regional Development Fund, who are investing £ 135,000 into the project.

Adjective modifier

• second: An option for a second tranche of missiles was placed in June 1995.
• initial: Now they are down to an initial tranche of 16.
• first: The first tranche of 136 candidate SACs was sent to the EC in June 1995.
• final: In July 2004, Lunar was granted access to the final tranche of funding to complete the Prototype design.
• next: In November, the Security Council has to set the next tranche of the " oil-for-food " program.
• third: A third tranche of material, on the officers of the Commons, will shortly be written up.

Modifies a noun

• scheme: There are 5 first tranche schemes valued at £ 18 million.

Noun used with modifier

• reserve: Any such drawing used to be referred to as the gold tranche and is now the reserve tranche.