adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an improved version
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The manufacturers come up with new, improved versions each year.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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greatly
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Although members are down in the senior section a greatly improved atmosphere now exists.
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Later developments, however, have produced greatly improved versions of this type of cladding.
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They can do this with a fraction of the water usage of the normal in-rack system and has a greatly improved performance.
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The benefits: greatly improved productivity and more effective decision making which will provide your business with an even greater competitive advantage.
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It also greatly improved blood circulation which in turn helps to induce peaceful, deep, relaxing sleep.
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Because of this greatly improved performance, the board is recommending a 33% increase in dividend to 0.8 pence.
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The result was a substantial increase in survival partly because of surgery and partly because of the greatly improved general care that infants received.
much
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Whilst profits in were somewhat reduced,, the specialist timber business achieved much improved results.
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He also designed new and much improved axle bearings, which largely eliminated the overheating which had caused serious traffic delays.
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You're showing much improved form and you've worked hard on your Christies.
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The Therapy Wing has provided much improved facilities for occupational therapy and physiotherapy.
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The National Railway Museum is settling down well in its new and much improved format.
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The Mark 2 engine however is fitted with a much improved Weslake head which is best left on.
vastly
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Aqib Javed, a vastly improved bowler in the last year, was perfect as a back-up to the two great bowlers.
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Blumlein's revolutionary technique vastly improved quality and simplified production, and was adopted internationally.
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With our vastly improved materials, adhesives and security technology, perhaps the new clock has an even greater chance of survival?
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It would make possible the provision of vastly improved public services, while reducing dependency upon them.
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If they feel that taxation is unfair, intelligent people take advantage of vastly improved financial communication and look about the world.
■ NOUN
access
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The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.
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The introduction of Medicare in 1984 improved access to services, but underlying problems remain.
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Despite her handicap Dorothy, of Chandlers' Ford, Hants, campaigns for improved access for wheelchair users.
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The right of all to improved access to training, including policies designed to ensure equal opportunities.
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The commission will probably also recommend that the defence be given improved access to forensic facilities.
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By this means, scholars from other universities world-wide will have improved access to the library's collections without leaving their desks.
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Environmentalists criticized it for emphasizing improved access to energy supplies while failing to ensure adequate environmental safeguards.
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The complete archive is being reorganised to allow improved access to the data held and a quicker response time to enquiries.
communication
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But improved communications , technological change, and increased demand led to concentration of food production in fewer and greater units.
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The advent of motorized transportation further improved communications .
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However there are many references to improved communication , greater interchangeability, efficiency and responsiveness to client needs.
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Factory reorganisation, cost-cutting, team working, training and improved communications contributed to an immediate upturn in fortunes.
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Parent Network believes that parenting can be learned, and that improved communication can do wonders for family harmony.
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Contribute to improved communication on risk issues between your organisation and the community.
facility
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Time allowed 00:19 Read in studio Disabled people are demanding improved facilities in city centres.
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I believe that this would lead to a better service and improved facilities for the public.
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We hope these improved facilities will make booking tickets easier.
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The Therapy Wing has provided much improved facilities for occupational therapy and physiotherapy.
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They could have modern hostels, improved facilities .
form
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James Fanshawe's filly was showing improved form in storming to a six-length win from Absalom's Pillar.
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You're showing much improved form and you've worked hard on your Christies.
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Through its OptiPure programme, Sepracor is developing improved forms of several commonly prescribed drugs.
health
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Large sections of the population, the subordinate classes specifically, were desperately in need of improved health care.
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The one undoubted gain has been improved health , and with it longer life itself.
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Thus, improved health in poor societies can lead to larger population, greater poverty, and eventually deterioration in health.
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This leads to improved health and a sense of well-being.
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All that the Labour party offers is promises and rhetoric; we have delivered an improved health service.
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In contrast the younger members of the population appear to be offering more individual behavioural dimensions to explain improved health status.
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It said little about care through improved health services.
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This interpretation assumes that the objective need for institutional care has not been reduced by improved health and fitness of old people.
method
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A much improved method for typing this polymorphism has since been reported.
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It should then be possible to understand the limits of potential expert systems, and to suggest improved methods for knowledge elicitation.
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Electrolytic production of alkalis and improved methods of making sulphuric acid soon followed.
performance
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The empirical grounds are that studies of post-merger performance are far from unanimous in identifying improved performance.
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At first glance, they seemed to do much better under hypnosis but the improved performance was mostly skin-deep.
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Manager Ken Knott is optimistic of an improved performance tonight.
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These data suggest that the reforms may not be responsible for the improved performance observed.
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Drivers do not take full advantage of a vehicle's improved performance .
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Thomas said their improved performances should lead to better fixtures next season.
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Second, Compact offers an incentive to improved performance within areas which schools are already tackling.
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Blake says how pleased he is with the firm's improved performance , acknowledging the considerable efforts and progress it has made.
productivity
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In return, we expect the industry to fight for its share of the electricity market by improved productivity .
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The benefits: greatly improved productivity and more effective decision making which will provide your business with an even greater competitive advantage.
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But there is no merit in improved productivity without any other sign of improved performance.
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Any future fleet changes are likely to reflect the importance of improved productivity , noise reduction and fuel economy.
quality
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This will keep the board informed of fundholders' efforts to secure high standards and improved quality of care.
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That creates strong pressure to emulate the best and so will lead to improved quality and efficiency.
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Blumlein's revolutionary technique vastly improved quality and simplified production, and was adopted internationally.
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The most encouraging outcome is patient survival with an improved quality of life.
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Finally, and supporting all these new initiatives, we have introduced improved quality control procedures.
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We can draw considerable encouragement from the improved quality of their health care.
result
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Whilst profits in were somewhat reduced,, the specialist timber business achieved much improved results .
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The catalyst to make her trust in her abilities and the improved results was there was no separate ladies' event.
road
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Canals were appreciably slower and the advantage of improved roads actually increased in this respect.
service
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In return, it offers the customer improved service and facilities.
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More modest examples of improved services included provision of physiotherapy and specialist consultations in the practice premises.
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If, therefore, public spending increases we have no idea whether the rise went in pay or in improved services .
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Some routes thought to be in danger will instead get improved services .
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The passing loop at Knighton is scheduled to be restored by next year, which should make an improved service possible.
standard
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This had mainly been achieved by improved standards of recording work done and quality control.
system
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The latter has led to the development and promotion of improved systems of hill sheep production by the official advisory services.
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But, more recently it became necessary to introduce an improved system based more fully on microelectronics.
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The differing needs might not be irreconcilable with an improved system .
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Thereafter I shall consider the status and the training of the teachers needed by any improved system of school education.
understanding
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A good starting-point for developing an improved understanding of the state are Foucault's and Giddens's recent works.
version
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The 325i costs £21,250 and is joined initially by the 318i with an improved version of the old 4-cylinder engine at £14,950.
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Take the new, improved version of the Cross of Lourdes being advertised in Prediction magazine.
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Later developments, however, have produced greatly improved versions of this type of cladding.
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Current trends suggest that many organisations expect to store increasing percentages of their records in improved versions of such systems.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a detergent with a new improved formula
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Garrett believes the new system will allow him to lower prices and provide improved service to customers.
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Perhaps you'd like to have a look at our new improved model?
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They're the most improved team in the league.
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This vastly improved information system means that doctors can see patients' medical histories at the flick of a switch.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Blake says how pleased he is with the firm's improved performance, acknowledging the considerable efforts and progress it has made.
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Catalytic converter technology would be forced to advance at a much improved rate, showing that F1 does indeed improve motoring in general.
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It was claimed that this gives an improved warmth to weight ratio of around 25 percent and decreased bulk.
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Second, Compact offers an incentive to improved performance within areas which schools are already tackling.
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So will our improved I.T. systems.
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The great infectious epidemics responded to a combination of improved sanitation and hygiene, vaccination programmes and antibiotics.
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The sugarmill at Torreão outdistanced all its rivals through improved machinery and good management by its owner.
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This would enable improved therapeutic strategies to be properly evaluated.