adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
successive/succeeding generations (= generations that follow one another )
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This medical textbook has been used by successive generations of medical students and doctors.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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Some strategic direction is essential, as successive governments have recognised.
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days
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Also included is a plot of the time of peak of body temperature on successive days .
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Very small increases in quantity can then be introduced over successive days as long as the child is continuing to clear the plate.
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Baldwin, supported by Sir Thomas Inskip, listened during three or four-hour sessions on each of the successive days .
defeat
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They suffered three successive defeats and it seemed their little party at the top was over.
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Three successive defeats , the latest at Stirling, mean Hawick's worst League start.
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The Gills were staring at a second successive defeat in the final with just seven minutes of extra time remaining.
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They hit a good League run after the Cup knock-out, before two successive defeats checked their progress.
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Bears have suffered five successive defeats , including a 47-43 home defeat by Peterborough last week.
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Darren Bazeley scored the Watford goals for Blackburn's fourth successive defeat .
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Rochdale's challenge is fading fast after a third successive defeat .
generation
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It is often said that the North East was populated by successive generations of industrial scabs.
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But it does set up the preconditions for perpetuation of the lack of reading skills within successive generations .
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Natural selection is of traits favourable to the survival, not of individuals, but of successive generations .
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Some of the vellum bound books are nearly 400 years old and have been read by successive generations of Oxford students.
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Cumulative contributions by successive generations of researchers create an increased and increasing understanding.
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Knowledge is never static, but successive generations of nurses fail to implement the findings of research.
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The bodies of successive generations transport them through time, so that a long-lost character may emerge in a distant descendant.
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No medical text has ever been so widely used by successive generations of medical students and doctors.
government
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It has been the policy of successive governments since 1976 to move the balance of expenditure from hospital to community services.
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Furthermore, successive governments have appeared to accept this definition of ethnic relations as largely a question of immigration control.
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The redistribution of wealth, erratically pursued by successive governments since 1945, was markedly reversed in the 1980s.
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It is the policies of successive governments to discipline the unemployed.
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From the mid-1970s successive governments attempted to alleviate the crisis by curbing public expenditure.
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Another is the failure of vision of successive governments , Labour and Conservative, since 1951.
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Failure of institutions Attitudes of successive governments so far have only solidified the lock.
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For this reason successive governments attempted to recruit people from their own ethnic groups and political affiliations into the army.
layer
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These three operations are performed in the successive layers .
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The surface could be built up to some extent by the application of thick and successive layers .
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But in fact we know that the time-gaps between successive layers may have been very considerable.
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By flaking off successive layers , the tree displays a bark of beige, cinnamon, lime green and slate blue.
league
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Starting with next Saturday's home match against Towcestrians they face three successive league matches, with Durham Cup ties in midweek.
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Arsenal's second successive league defeat left them eight points behind the leaders and with a considerably inferior goal difference.
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Keegan keeps the team which produced a last-gasp win over Portsmouth last Saturday after five successive League defeats.
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This was Wimbledon's eighth successive league defeat.
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Northern, seeking their eighth successive League win, were caught cold by Castleford.
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Southampton should have registered a club record seventh successive League win but failed to turn their general superiority into goals.
night
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A series of confrontations between protesters and police escalated into violence, with the numbers swelling on each successive night .
season
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Yet within a few years she won the County Bronze and Silver Championships in two successive seasons , almost certainly a unique feat.
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A dejected Hammam is prepared for the worst - sacrificing Premier League status and possibly even suffering successive seasons of relegation.
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There were enough costumes here to keep the Paris Opera going for five successive seasons .
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Now most of the paint had been peeled away by successive seasons of sun and rain.
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This could be argued as promoting the crossing between different parent trees in successive seasons .
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Turner surprised even himself by leading them to promotion in successive seasons .
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It was a sound investment by Watford, because Wilkinson topped the club's scoring charts for three successive seasons .
stage
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Moreover each kind has continued to be important; it is not a simple question of successive stages .
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Salinger said the radar shows four successive stages of a blip moving toward the mark that represented Flight 800.
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On a large canvas the successive stages of this incident were rendered in muddy greens and browns.
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Not every piece of work a child undertakes needs to proceed through successive stages of drafting.
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However, there will always be a pause of at least one minute between successive stages .
victory
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With 18 successive victories behind them, Wigan should deliver.
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It was also Castleford's fourth successive victory over neighbours Trinity.
wave
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It is surrounded by states with internal conflicts and has received successive waves of refugees.
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Regional officers had lived for many years with successive waves of moral outrage about the scandalous conditions within the asylums.
week
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Anglers Choice starlet Graham Metcalfe topped the proceedings for the second successive week and set a new five-hour best of 16-8-0.
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For the second successive week professional Mike Farrell scored 145 not out, his team totalling 241-2.
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Only one windsurf or Wayfarer week may be booked; for two successive weeks book the local sailing holiday.
win
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It is Liverpool's third successive win .
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Derby, with six successive wins , could have both Blades and Goddard back after injury.
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Emperor Charles bids to give Reading-based Chris Bennett his second successive win in the opening hunt race.
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Boldon, on the other hand, have made a great start with three successive wins .
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Only a six-year-old, Young Hustler is seeking his sixth successive win - and his eighth in all this season.
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Meanwhile, the men virtually tied up their third successive win in the series in Swansea.
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Then came the rarity of a second successive win , 3-2 at home to Torquay.
world
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It was the second time in successive World Cup ties that Leighton had let down his colleagues.
year
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What Lyle, Faldo twice and Woosnam can do in successive years has broken whatever invincibility the home players thought they had.
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Bruce Maidment has won one of the major Thames races for the ninth successive year .
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Here, low winter rainfall and dry summers for two successive years have caused record low water levels in wells.
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The chair rotated annually and committee membership was limited to two successive years in order to avoid the dangers of elitism and institutionalisation.
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Where necessary, the precision of estimates could be improved by using information from several successive years .
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The figures show that the number of pollution incidents rose for the fifth successive year and have doubled since 1985.
years
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What Lyle, Faldo twice and Woosnam can do in successive years has broken whatever invincibility the home players thought they had.
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The experiment was repeated in successive years , using two cars in 1953.
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Here, low winter rainfall and dry summers for two successive years have caused record low water levels in wells.
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The chair rotated annually and committee membership was limited to two successive years in order to avoid the dangers of elitism and institutionalisation.
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Where necessary, the precision of estimates could be improved by using information from several successive years .
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If possible the runs should not be placed in the same areas in successive years .
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In successive years the outline had grown more pronounced and the current rainless spell exaggerated them yet more.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Successive governments have failed to tackle the problem of international debt.
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Successive nights without sleep make any new parent feel ready to quit.
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Jackson became the first batter since Babe Ruth to hit three successive home runs in a single game.
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The food shortage is a result of three years of successive floods.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After this fourth successive Tory election victory, we think it would be better if a Labour Speaker had a turn.
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Of the five successive Club finals in which Llanelli appeared from 1972-76, Jenkins played in only two.
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That was his fifth successive birdie.
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They have reached the first round for the fifth successive year, although once admitted they initially quailed like nervous party-goers.
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They hit a good League run after the Cup knock-out, before two successive defeats checked their progress.
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This is the second successive monthly fall, following the encouraging month-on-month improvements between December and March.