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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
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With individual voices chosen from the sound-card a reasonably close approximation to the a performance can be produced.
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A close approximation to these conditions has been attained by Mandelkern, who annealed a linear polyethylene for 40 days.
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You only need to type in a close approximation of the word and leave it to the spell-checker to sort out.
crude
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Although it is sometimes simulated by looking through a peephole, this gives only a crude approximation of the condition.
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Even at best this is a rather crude approximation .
good
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This is a good first approximation of the concept of the transnational capitalist class that I want to develop.
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This recipe is a good approximation and a whole lot easier to accomplish.
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A number of backing off formulae are possible which aim to provide the best approximations to the probability of the transitions.
reasonable
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There are reasonable approximations of bicarbonate and alkali secretion for each subject on separate occasions.
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In the absence of such precision, reasonable approximations may be considered.
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Therefore, as a reasonable approximation , you can neglect the extra oxygen that plants consume at night.
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Some of the errors introduced will cancel one another out and the answer we get will still be a reasonable approximation .
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This is acceptable only if it can be demonstrated that the method gives a reasonable approximation of the actual cost.
rough
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For a long time, this was sufficient justification for Friedmann's assumption - as a rough approximation to the real universe.
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But as a very rough approximation , avoiding pain and courting pleasure is indeed the way we act.
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Neither could these illustrations just be rough approximations of the finished articles.
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However, by making some assumptions, a rough approximation of public expenditure saving can be reached.
■ VERB
make
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Cowan makes a number of approximations in order to make his theory manageable.
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The way in which one would normally try to compute the behaviour of such a world would be to make some approximation .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Five thousand dollars seems to be a reasonable approximation of the actual cost.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although it is sometimes simulated by looking through a peephole, this gives only a crude approximation of the condition.
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As with the others, it was complicated by numerous irregularities, approximations, and ornate embellishments in the park.
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For a long time, this was sufficient justification for Friedmann's assumption - as a rough approximation to the real universe.
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If the first shape is a series of rough-hewed approximations, the second is a shiny patchwork of beautifully stitched leather cut-outs.
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The way in which one would normally try to compute the behaviour of such a world would be to make some approximation .
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There are reasonable approximations of bicarbonate and alkali secretion for each subject on separate occasions.
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We live in a system of approximations.