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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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annual
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The lowest is Grade 7 and would include Assistant Keepers starting on £24,379 rising by annual increments to £29,073.
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Trainees are paid on Clinical Scientist grade A, which is currently £9,239 p.a. increasing by annual increments .
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The total annual increment can take anything from 1 to 5 months for completion.
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The value of this annual increment of rich topsoil can hardly be exaggerated.
small
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With the patient on his left side anaesthesia was induced with halothane in oxygen and small increments of propofol intravenously.
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Proponents argue that each additional dollar of income received by a household will yield smaller and smaller increments of satisfaction.
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Material is presented in the smallest possible increments .
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Thus my courtship of Sophie began-slowly, decorously, building by the smallest of increments .
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Hence we should expect the Andrade equation to hold for small temperature increments only.
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If this is the case, slacken the rod by small increments until the buzz goes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Annenberg donated $150 million to be paid in increments of $10 million for 15 years.
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Automatic pay increments based on length of service will be abolished.
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The contract includes a salary increment every six months.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An increment is a small step from the existing position.
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Few countries can afford increments in their recurrent budget.
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He lost the ten years' increments.
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Here the increment in individual risk from a slight increase in contact rate is negligible, assuming the individual acts alone.
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It warns policymakers not to get tangled up with averages but to focus instead on increments.
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Proponents argue that each additional dollar of income received by a household will yield smaller and smaller increments of satisfaction.
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The President, however, makes it clear that there will be no increment in federal funds.
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Trainees are paid on Clinical Scientist grade A, which is currently £9,239 p.a. increasing by annual increments.