adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
breathe fast/rapidly (= breathe quickly because of illness, fear etc )
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He closed his eyes, breathing fast under the fever.
expanded rapidly
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Sydney’s population expanded rapidly in the 1960s.
grow rapidly/slowly/steadily
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The economy has grown steadily.
quickly/rapidly gain sth
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Adam quickly gained the respect of the soldiers under his command.
rapidly expanding
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the rapidly expanding field of information technology
rapidly (= very quickly )
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Since then, elephant numbers have been decreasing rapidly.
rapidly/quickly
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The market for phones is changing rapidly.
rapidly/quickly/fast
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House prices rose rapidly last year.
spread rapidly/quickly
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The fire spread rapidly, consuming many of the houses.
went downhill...rapidly
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Grandma fell and broke her leg, and she went downhill quite rapidly after that.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
changing
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Living in modernity facilitates this belief because we live in a world of rapidly changing fashions and technologies.
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Moreover, social values and structures have shown a remarkable ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
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Most sectors face aggressive competition, rapidly changing customer needs and fashions, and further technical change.
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We know that the stability signified by unchanging buildings is psychologically valuable, particularly in a violent and rapidly changing world.
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Improved communication about children and the problems which they faced outside school was not simply a consequence of a rapidly changing society.
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Taxation is a complex and rapidly changing subject.
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This rapidly changing eighteenth-century upper class reaped the rewards of the political settlement hard-won in 1688 after civil war and the interregnum.
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It can also help you keep up with the rapidly changing world of work.
developing
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This makes the sperm, like all rapidly developing cells, especially vulnerable to damage from chemicals or radiation.
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It will be appreciated that this rapidly developing field of expertise contains extensive new jargon.
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Three open sprinklers were found to be sufficient to stop even the most rapidly developing fire.
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Bioremediation is a promising and rapidly developing treatment technology with a bright future.
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This is a rapidly developing field which poses great challenges for both experimentalists and theoreticians.
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In advertising, you are part of the most rapidly developing new industry in the world, namely communications and information technology.
expanding
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Iron founding soon became their main interest, with the railway boom at first providing a rapidly expanding market.
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Among them are problems of air and water quality and waste in rapidly expanding third world cities.
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However, for the twelfth century we are much better informed about the rapidly expanding wine trade.
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The impetus for these practices came from the need to remunerate the rapidly expanding number of clerks in royal service.
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He was elected a director of the rapidly expanding Company in 1767, and was appointed deputy chairman the following year.
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The leisure industry, however, is one of the world's largest and most rapidly expanding businesses.
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A particular coup for the firm was the contract to supply the rapidly expanding Marks and Spencer chain.
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Both are putting forward major expansion proposals designed to cater for the NorthWest's rapidly expanding demand for air travel.
growing
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Camra is rapidly growing in size too.
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They were a little reluctant to do this, but knew that it would provide an essential rapidly growing windbreak.
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But she is rapidly growing demoralised by her situation and is increasingly disinclined to do very much.
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Central laser printing is used on a rapidly growing scale.
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Creating a teaching force which is adequate to the rapidly growing system has been another problem.
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Management buyouts are a new and rapidly growing means of company takeover and new firm formation.
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These people work mainly in the new, rapidly growing , employment sectors such as personal services, advertising and the media.
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There is a rapidly growing number in Britain who regard dolphins in captivity as similar to humans in slavery.
rising
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We now need to consider the effect of rapidly rising property prices on individual behaviour.
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I gingerly fingered the rapidly rising egg ... no blood ... it almost seemed worth it.
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There was, in the mid century, a gap between rising wages and even more rapidly rising prices that favoured investment.
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A falling savings ratio and rapidly rising consumer expenditure were certainly significant features of the second half of the 1980s.
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The reputation of Champagne was growing fast, as can be assessed from the record of rapidly rising prices.
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This was a period when coal consumption, and hence the number of miners employed, was rapidly rising .
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Lloyd George's Government had embarked on a programme of financing social reform at a time of rapidly rising prices.
■ VERB
approach
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The rear of a truck was approaching rapidly .
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The mind no longer needs to invent its reality-the reality is in its face, rapidly approaching dead-on.
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Pike Tackle With Autumn and Winter rapidly approaching , anglers will soon he turning to pike.
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The time is rapidly approaching when somebody has to do a spacewalk around this station.
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Cranston's hand went towards his dagger and Athelstan rapidly approached the door.
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It was dusk by the time she checked out of the Shelbourne; night was approaching rapidly .
become
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In the mean time laparoscopic cholecystectomy has rapidly become a popular method.
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If the control key is left attached to the adjustment spindle it rapidly becomes too hot for comfortable handling.
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Once the end point was reached, the lake is likely to rapidly become acidic.
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Public affairs is rapidly becoming a speciality in Britain.
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Herrera, rapidly becoming worse, was unable to leave the city.
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It is the characteristic of social services that they become rapidly and strongly institutionalised.
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Biotechnology is rapidly becoming one of the world's great industries.
change
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In the rurban fringe the use of the land has been changing rapidly .
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Now the rapidly changing workplace meant men had to retool routinely too.
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On the other hand, things can change rapidly there.
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Her body is changing rapidly in ways that are initially uncomfortable.
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Tennis was changing rapidly , not least in the technology of its implements and the surfaces of its playing area.
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They are rapidly changing their minds as they discover the obvious: Running multiple networks is expensive.
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Once again where the patients' conditions are changing rapidly , in general, more time will be required.
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Western economic and social determinants were changing rapidly .
decline
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The schools building programme ceased in 1985, and at that time too teachers' real salaries began to decline rapidly .
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His health declined rapidly after treatment last summer.
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In the absence of soil conservation, the productivity of these lands w ill inevitably decline rapidly .
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Public concern over the popular cetacean has mounted as numbers have rapidly declined .
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Four years of drought and rapidly declining business had left all five branches of the Inyo County Bank severely weakened.
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The fertility rate of railway workers declined rapidly following the expansion of promotion hierarchies at the end of the century.
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Both food and fur animals declined rapidly .
deteriorate
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In the early nineteenth century the quality of working-class houses, as structures, deteriorated rapidly .
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Whipped butter is expensive and deteriorates rapidly .
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Weather conditions had deteriorated rapidly by the time the plane reached Prestwick and the pilot aborted his landing almost on touch-down.
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Credit quality has deteriorated rapidly in recent months, both for marketable debt and for bank loans.
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Without it the retinas of their eyes would rapidly deteriorate .
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Of the scandalous way in which the railway hotels were sold off and nine-tenths have deteriorated rapidly since.
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This provision is inserted in the Policy because these items are moving parts which deteriorate rapidly with use.
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Excision biopsy was carried out and before the result was available the patient deteriorated rapidly and died.
develop
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Fine roots develop from the nodes and the plant develops rapidly and outgrows the tank.
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Diseases are rapidly developing resistances to current antibiotics.
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However, the market is developing rapidly externally.
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Meanwhile, the sheep industry had developed rapidly , and these smaller animals were promptly set upon by both wolves and coyotes.
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Grangemouth was also developing rapidly although it was the early part of the present century before substantial tonnages were handled.
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The unions developed rapidly during this decade.
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Propagation is by cuttings, which root and develop rapidly .
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Sir Hugh said loyalists were rapidly developing their bomb-making skills.
disappear
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Marian leaned over the parapet; the rain, which still streamed down, was forgotten as she watched him rapidly disappear .
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Mowry is rapidly disappearing into the hillsides.
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Many conflicts in meetings disappear rapidly once you get down to detail and factual cases.
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He did a remarkably accurate imitation of the soft, low drag of a rapidly disappearing device.
expand
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The size and the number of actuarial firms is expanding rapidly in response to the demand for their services.
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Since the I950s, world trade has expanded rapidly , driving incomes higher along the way.
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The story starts in the middle of the last century when Darlington was expanding rapidly .
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Not only is production expanding rapidly as foreign mining outfits plunge in, world coal prices have been rising.
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Although joint venture programmes have expanded rapidly in recent years, care has been taken to contain the growth of core staff.
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She added to his rapidly expanding jewelry collection.
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The rapidly expanding capabilities of information technology would facilitate the process.
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From Melbourne to Seoul, intraregional trade and investments were rapidly expanding .
fall
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Darkness was falling rapidly as Campeanu eased his way past the narrow gap.
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It began to breathe, its little chest rising and falling rapidly .
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Now they are falling rapidly to earth, but with some way to go.
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The average length of service of my colleagues in London fell rapidly from six years to less than two years.
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The days lost in strikes rapidly fell to a much lower level than at any time since 1918.
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Union membership fell rapidly to around half of the immediate postwar level.
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The unlikelihood of base level having fallen rapidly between terraces and remaining absolutely constant while terraces were being cut.
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Why not join them the next time your barometer begins to fall rapidly ?
follow
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It was not long before the first passenger was sick, followed rapidly by another then another.
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Municipalities and government agencies are rapidly following suit.
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The fertility rate of railway workers declined rapidly following the expansion of promotion hierarchies at the end of the century.
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The opening of new houses followed rapidly .
grow
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Sprint, an early entrant into the commercial Internet, has a rapidly growing Internet services business.
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Air travel was growing rapidly , while the role of mass transit on the ground was shrinking almost everywhere.
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The fry grew rapidly on a diet of brine shrimp and Liquifry.
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That rapidly growing part of their business now accounts for about 25 percent of overall sales.
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It represents, according to my knowledge, the most up-to-date and comprehensive book in this rapidly growing subject area.
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Co. has grown rapidly since its early years as a discount brokerage house.
improve
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The patient improved rapidly and had no complaints one year after this procedure.
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The 1994 PontetCanet might be the best ever for this rapidly improving estate.
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Inflation was brought down to below 5 percent, the balance of payments remained healthy and productivity improved rapidly .
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From the eleventh century onwards, and as long as economic growth continued, the lot of the peasants rapidly improved .
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Competition would be the same and vehicle security would rapidly improve .
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Medical services, skills and drugs improved rapidly , particularly due to vaccination.
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With speculation growing that Laughton will be sacked unless results improve rapidly , Leeds began badly.
increase
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In recent years the number of initiatives have been increasing rapidly with development concentrated in deprived urban communities.
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Return on sales is currently just below the industry average of 3. 5 percent, and shows a rapidly increasing trend.
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The number of financial products available over the internet-where physical geography is mostly irrelevant-is increasing rapidly .
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Population had increased rapidly , and millions had moved to the cities.
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After work, at the pub, verbal interactions may increase rapidly .
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It is well known in kinetic theory that reaction rates Increase rapidly with increases in temperature.
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Trade between the two nations increased rapidly .
move
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Turbulence produced by rapidly moving columns of air also generates low-frequency sounds.
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Even concentrating on the rapidly moving pictures milked most of my energy.
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There was the crunch of his feet rapidly moving away over the snow and she felt her tense muscles relax.
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Our recently announced plans to significantly expand our hosting infrastructure are moving rapidly .
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About the only people who can move rapidly over such terrain are the tough and wiry park service hunters.
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When the pictures are put together and moved rapidly , the character appears to be moving.
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Kangaroos have the same need to move rapidly , but they have done it in a different way.
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Some welfare recipients -- Those with job skills could move rapidly into training, child care and job programs.
rise
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In that situation failure to accumulate in the face of rapidly rising real wage costs spells disaster.
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On their return, both rapidly rose to positions of decisive importance in Church and State.
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Relative poverty, more markedly than absolute poverty, clearly rose rapidly throughout the 1970s.
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All were great successes and his popularity as a writer rose rapidly .
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Labour markets became very tight and money wages rose rapidly .
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Divorce rates are also rising rapidly in many other parts of the world.
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But the populations of poorer countries will continue to rise rapidly .
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They met originally at a company orientation program, and subsequently the latter executive rose rapidly in the company.
spread
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The epidemic is dynamic, unstable and continuing to spread rapidly .
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The new system has usurped almost all health care in California and is rapidly spreading nationwide.
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The initial story that the school forced its pupils to assemble firecrackers spread rapidly .
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Once the researchers returned to shore, news of their findings spread rapidly through the scientific community.
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The worm is now poised to emerge from its dormant phase and begin to spread rapidly by colonising more machines and sites.
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This distorted form of Buddhism spread rapidly thanks to a vast network of male and female monastic communities.
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But out of sight the roots from which they grow are spreading rapidly .
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Such belief will spread rapidly throughout human populations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After the Gulf War he was promoted rapidly and began to mix more in political circles.
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But in rapidly heating or cooling markets, new-home prices can signal a change in overall price trends.
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Copper vessels and brass fittings are rapidly attacked under these conditions.
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Even those he tried to establish with office girls seemed to founder fairly rapidly .
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However, the market is developing rapidly externally.
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Labour markets became very tight and money wages rose rapidly .
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Other primates laugh by panting rapidly .
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Rose recovered rapidly and was soon able to go outside again.