adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a correct/accurate diagnosis
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It is impossible to make an accurate diagnosis without an examination.
accurate
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It’s important to ensure that the data we collect is accurate.
accurate
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I don't think the hotel's description of its facilities was very accurate.
accurate
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a modern, accurate map of the district
accurate
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When making curtains, you need accurate measurements of the window.
accurate/correct
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Jane's prediction proved to be accurate.
accurate/literal etc rendering of sth
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a faithful rendering of historical events
accurate/realistic etc portrayal
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The film is not an accurate portrayal correct portrayal of his life.
an accurate account
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Both newspapers gave fairly accurate accounts of what had happened.
an accurate record
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Many hospitals did not keep accurate records.
an accurate/exact translation
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The most accurate translation of the word would be ‘master’.
an accurate/reliable estimate (= fairly exact )
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It’s hard to put an accurate estimate on the number of people affected.
an accurate/true picture
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Our aim is to build an accurate picture of the needs of disabled people.
an accurate/true reflection
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These reports were not an accurate reflection of existing attitudes.
correct/accurate
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Are you sure this information is correct?
sb's calculations are right/correct/accurate
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Fortunately his calculations were accurate.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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The aim is to use the rubble in as accurate a way as possible, avoiding recourse to modern materials.
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The method of measurement should also be accepted as accurate .
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He confirmed that he understood and signed the record of interview as accurate .
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And sometimes the figures we use are not as accurate as we believe.
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The teaching is just as accurate and painstaking and thorough as I have found in previous years.
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Tests on 16 fossilised shellfish showed that acid dating is as accurate as carbon dating.
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No doubt from then on my route wasn't as straight or as accurate as earlier, but at least I was moving.
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This display is updated constantly so that the information shown on the screen is as accurate as possible.
completely
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But whether or not it is a completely accurate report of what actually happened is perhaps not the point.
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Certainly, one can not expect the forecasted figures to be completely accurate for each month.
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All the facts given were checked and were found to be completely accurate .
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From what will be said, it will be seen that neither the characterization nor the name is completely accurate .
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Do not, however, rely on such information as being either completely accurate or exhaustive.
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The conversation as related in the book is completely accurate .
entirely
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The picture of a dovish president pulled in opposite directions by thugs on both right and left is not entirely accurate .
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But it is not entirely accurate .
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This has a certain ring to it, but apparently it is not entirely accurate .
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She found that the membership list with which Hilary Roberts had supplied her was a not entirely accurate document.
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The popular image of him as a laconic, amiable figure is not entirely accurate .
fairly
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One must have a fairly accurate idea of the patient's weight.
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Both newspapers gave fairly accurate accounts of what had happened the night before last.
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After a while it grew apparent that Tara's verdict on Guy was fairly accurate .
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As a result the accounts produced will tend to reflect a fairly accurate view of the profitability of the business.
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Linear, scientific perspective allows for a fairly accurate mental reconstruction of the distances separating objects.
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Quality of the written report: A fairly accurate picture, but raised no new, major issues.
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The estimate of three revolutions for three overflow records will thus be fairly accurate in this case.
highly
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This last fact is made use of in achieving highly accurate potential-difference ratios.
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He was well aware that highly accurate biological tests would disclose his responsibility.
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These transmit coded signals containing information from highly accurate atomic clocks on board.
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The standardization of recording methods allows rapid and highly accurate comparisons to be made between different artifact types.
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The advance has proved highly accurate in recognising continuously spoken airborne reconnaissance reports for the Royal Air Force.
historically
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Again the use of such language may be a problem in a novel intended to be historically accurate .
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A: Nobody ever accuses Hollywood of making historically accurate films.
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Vartian says he wants the museum to be as emotionally powerful and historically accurate as Washington's U.S.
how
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He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction.
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People always questioned how accurate a passer he was, and this year he proved he is.
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How polite are drivers? How accurate is documentation?
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Consequently, you will be able to judge for yourself how accurate we are in describing the abbreviated style in general.
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As far as he is concerned, nobody cares how accurate our portrayal of Claudia's love life is.
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If you are in good practice, it is fun to discover just how accurate you can be with a crosswind landing.
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The material involved may go to show how accurate were the company's financial statements and how accurate were any representations made.
less
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Playing time is longer about one hour of straight playing time per side - but random access is less accurate .
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But as decades passed, the magnetic charts became less accurate .
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Mammography is less accurate at detecting cancers in younger women.
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Schemata progress from being less accurate to being more accurate.
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Care must be taken in making visual estimates, and results are usually much less accurate than with point counting techniques.
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But so far the intensity method has proved inherently much less accurate than the directional method.
more
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The registered version is configured for your time and place of birth which makes it even more accurate .
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The information the device collects helps divers gather more accurate records of free-fall times.
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Combinations of such antibodies may offer a more accurate system for identification of tumour type.
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It also will monitor the installation of a program for a more accurate removal later.
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One or two other species of bird have developed a much more accurate technique of finding their way in the dark.
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A different interpretation of the Orphic cosmogonic accounts is more accurate .
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WinTach should give you more accurate performance figures.
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Some leading Republican members of Congress said Friday they consider $ 825 million to be a more accurate estimate.
most
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As usual, Calvin Peete was the most accurate driver.
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A quality assurance program assists practitioners to base decisions for patient care on the most accurate available scientific knowledge and proven practices.
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The most accurate way to assess an individual's temperament is by observing his expressions and behaviour.
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What students do, not what they know, is the most accurate measure of their success in schools.
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In fact, it is describing the circle in the most accurate way possible.
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Is one the most accurate explanation of politics for all political systems?
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I keep a most accurate record.
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Rubenski, one of our most accurate gunners, opened up as we drew closer to the gun position.
quite
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Estimates can be quite accurate once two days in advance are concerned.
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And the name is quite accurate -- these cars are actually one-fourth the size of their full-grown kin.
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That passage is not quite accurate .
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But this is not quite accurate .
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Perhaps it could have been rounded up to seven hundred - still not quite accurate , but at least more accurate?
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The first paragraph is quite accurate .
reasonably
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Obviously where frequent attempts are made at reconciliation the cost accounts may be reasonably accurate .
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In the private sector, decision making can be guided and implemented by considerations that are subject to reasonably accurate escalation.
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In most cases our customers find our estimates reasonably accurate .
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The several criticisms of the market economy are reasonably accurate and certainly too serious to ignore.
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Nor are they fully explained - although less efficient digestion in general is probably a reasonably accurate explanation.
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This helps stress the need to get the whole approach right if the landings are to be reasonably accurate .
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Forecasts of mortality are now reasonably accurate .
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The current Building Regs are the 1985 edition: books published in 1986 or later should be reasonably accurate .
strictly
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Perceptions need not be strictly accurate .
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To be strictly accurate , there are two Wolvertons, Old and New.
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To be strictly accurate about it, they are mostly very reliable once they are up and running properly.
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So Tite's evidence at the inquest was not strictly accurate .
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Interestingly, this view of personality and behaviour is not strictly accurate .
very
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It won't be very accurate in practice, because of difficulty in measuring the distances accurately, but at least it's right.
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The stories were very accurate in that regard.
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I thought he was a very toffee-nosed man, a good draughtsman in a commercial sort of way, very accurate of course.
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Certain configurations gave the time and place to a very accurate degree.
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One system uses a peristaltic pump which, although very accurate , can not withstand back pressure.
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Happenings' is a very accurate word for it.
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In the first experiment our source is a not very accurate gun which sprays bullets on to the first screen.
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Automatic weighing machines are very accurate and sample packs are taken regularly and weighed as a check.
■ NOUN
account
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After all, whatever interpretation of the Bible is considered, it remains an accurate account of human behaviour.
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The evening paper here has a more accurate account .
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Both newspapers gave fairly accurate accounts of what had happened the night before last.
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Whether it is an accurate account of the genesis of these hallucinations remains to be seen.
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If by history is meant accurate accounts of past events supported by evidence, they are certainly not that.
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Management will therefore need to be able to have sufficient information to present an accurate account to the media.
assessment
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Well, she shouldn't be surprised, because it was quite an accurate assessment .
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A more accurate assessment can be gained by calculating your body mass index or your percentage of body fat.
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Assessment of the problem Effective intervention and treatment is based on an accurate assessment of the presenting problem.
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Yet this is hardly an accurate assessment .
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There are still no accurate assessments of damage available.
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It is infinitely more difficult to make an accurate assessment of the immediate past and of the present.
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But the committed membership are not those best able to give an accurate assessment .
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The planning of each patient's care is dependent upon a comprehensive and accurate assessment .
data
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The provision of accurate data by fishing nations.
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Since accurate data have been kept, there have been no other periods of sharply rising inequality.
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We have seen how staggeringly impressive it is as an accurate data storage device.
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One of the biggest problems facing task forces has been collecting accurate data .
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In the meantime task forces are trying to collect accurate data on actual hours worked as opposed to contracted hours.
description
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A certain nervous expectation, incipient disappointment mitigated by professional Micawberism, is a more accurate description .
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An accurate description of the problem is the first step in solving it.
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Do you think that this is an accurate description of how people behave when they acquire extra money?
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Neither the word voluntary nor the word nonprofit offers an accurate description .
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This seems to be an accurate description of the initial decisions about seeking entry into higher education.
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Both linguists wish to produce accurate descriptions of the particular language studied.
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Precisely because they make no claim to be accurate descriptions of the social world, they are not directly testable.
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These days, a more accurate description is that, despite official assurances, relations are bad and getting worse.
diagnosis
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After the tubercle bacillus was identified, accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis, of the lungs and of other organs, became possible.
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The challenge in making an accurate diagnosis begins immediately when the consultant enters the organization.
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Lack of tenacity could be a more accurate diagnosis .
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We give structured assessments, order appropriate investigations, reach an accurate diagnosis and then make the relevant treatment or referral.
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The accurate diagnosis achieved combined with the evolution of intrauterine surgery, however, is radically changing patients' management.
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But although this discovery has made accurate diagnosis much easier, the way in which the expansion occurs remains to be understood.
estimate
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It became essential to obtain an accurate estimate of just how many tigers were left.
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So even in 1966, the twelve-minute figure does not appear to have been an accurate estimate .
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Similarly, accurate estimates of the marginal costs of production are often very difficult to obtain.
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Some leading Republican members of Congress said Friday they consider $ 825 million to be a more accurate estimate .
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The most reliable and accurate estimates can normally be obtained using one of the true cross-areal interpolation methods.
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All are now agreed that that proved to be a remarkably accurate estimate .
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By contrast, Glasgow gave accurate estimates .
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Tom Tedder's tragedy was that he had a perfectly accurate estimate of his own talents as an artist.
figures
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After hours of brain searching work I arrived at a formula that produced some sensible - but not accurate figures .
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Many found it difficult to give accurate figures as the livestock year dictated two very definite peak work periods.
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As many as 20 percent of people over 80 may be suffering from dementia, but no accurate figures are available.
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More accurate figures are being made available with improved central bank supervision of external money markets.
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The number of executions of prisoners appears to be around 100-200, though accurate figures are hard to get.
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Second, I promised that the accurate figures will be published.
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Others are impossible to locate and drop out of the statistics in due course; therefore accurate figures are difficult to obtain.
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Denial by the physically abused person is another barrier to obtaining accurate figures .
information
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The availability of accurate information with respect to the current sales enables sophisticated marketing capable of responding to consumers' preferences.
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The second part of step two is often neglected by teachers, mainly because it is difficult to obtain accurate information .
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For markets to work well, consumers need access to adequate and accurate information .
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Resource allocation in the near future requires accurate information not only for each school but within a school for each year.
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She then told her husband so that he could decide on the course of treatment on the basis of accurate information .
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The main reason for this growth was that Congress no longer trusted the executive branch to provide it with accurate information .
measure
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Use of Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate test-kits will give you an accurate measure of how effective your bacterial filtration is.
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What students do, not what they know, is the most accurate measure of their success in schools.
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Firstly, we need a national register of hip replacements and revisions to provide an accurate measure of revision rate.
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One of the difficulties was that we didn't have a clear and accurate measure of performance of the system.
measurement
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The figures are too small to allow accurate measurement of the exponent.
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If accurate measurement of quality is in place, natural selection proceeds almost automatically.
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The accurate measurement of area by this method must be achieved before it is sensible to talk about reflectance.
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More accurate measurements showed that a single epicycle per planet was not enough.
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It was his development of special thermometer glass with glass capillaries containing liquid that made such accurate measurement feasible.
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Because of the small difference between therapeutic and toxic levels in the serum, accurate measurements of lithium concentrations are essential.
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More important, there is always the insistence on accurate measurement and also repeatable measurement.
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Figure 8-5 contains a flowchart with 18 points describing the steps to be taken if accurate measurements are completed.
method
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These studies need to be repeated with presently available more accurate methods for assay of histamine.
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It can not, however, be claimed with any certainty that it is a more accurate method .
picture
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The artist was determined to present an accurate picture .
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You can't get an accurate picture off television.
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The police had been excluded from prior knowledge of the arrests, but quickly built up an accurate picture .
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By doing so, he would more easily be able to form an accurate picture of his father as well.
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Had they been given a more accurate picture of what was actually taking place, would they have reacted differently?
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This reduces the workload and helps in the production of a more comprehensive and accurate picture .
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It hopes this will give it a more accurate picture of the actual casualty rate.
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But in the circumstances of this case, that was not an accurate picture .
portrayal
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Constanze said many years later that it was an accurate portrayal of her anguish.
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What is the relationship between the accurate portrayal of a single case and a general truth about the nature of things?
prediction
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Such a model facilitates accurate predictions of the average change in charge radii for nuclei.
record
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An accurate record of Mr Reynolds' fluid intake and output was kept.
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The information the device collects helps divers gather more accurate records of free-fall times.
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Many hospitals did not keep accurate records and some did not provide figures, the inquiry found.
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An accurate record of her progress needs to be kept and a check made on the experience she has gained.
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Simple mechanical devices were placed in the test room to maintain an accurate record of output.
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Some reports will be on paper, to provide an accurate record of that resident, others are verbal.
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This is where accurate records will help the producer make a decision.
reflection
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The map is drawn to help the traveller, not to be an accurate reflection of reality.
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Evidence is also presented which suggests that amylase determination in oesophageal fluid is an accurate reflection of salivary contamination.
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These changes are designed to provide a more accurate reflection of the roles of the various officers.
representation
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It need not be an accurate representation but more of an expression of local features and history.
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The painting was not an accurate representation of the Falls but a kind of Platonic ideal.
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Is it a whitewash or an accurate representation of the result of a searching investigation?
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The screen shows an accurate representation of how the composition will look as a printed score.
way
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The most accurate way to assess an individual's temperament is by observing his expressions and behaviour.
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One need not attempt to visualize this in any accurate way .
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In fact, it is describing the circle in the most accurate way possible.
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It is crucial to distinguish between formal and informal styles of language before one can compare dialects in an accurate way .
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The tape measure is a much more accurate way of assessing your progress.
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Writers take facts and transform them into stories, trying to tell them in an interesting, accurate way .
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YO-YO would be a more accurate way to describe the succession of U-turns made recently by John Major and his Ministers.
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The most accurate way is to have your running style videotaped and analysed by a biomechanics lab.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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accurate financial forecasts
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Greene gives a remarkably accurate description of life in Saigon in the early '50s.
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I think your assessment of the current economic situation is pretty accurate .
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It is vital that the measurements be accurate .
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It was a devastatingly accurate shot by the Brazilian captain.
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More sophisticated equipment is needed to produce accurate results.
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She was able to give the police an accurate description of her attacker.
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That's a fairly accurate assessment of the situation.
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The authorities still do not have accurate information on the number of people killed or injured in the crash.
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The witness tried to give an accurate description of what she had seen.
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Tom was able to give the police an accurate description of the gunman.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An accurate description of the problem is the first step in solving it.
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Combinations of such antibodies may offer a more accurate system for identification of tumour type.
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Entries are detailed, accurate and solid, written in clear, nontechnical language for the general reader.
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Event information is accurate as of press time.
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Pinpointed in about 60 seconds, the locations were accurate within 15 yards.
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Temperature is accurate to 0.005°C with a range of -10°C to +70°C.