adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a plentiful/abundant supply formal:
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There was a plentiful supply of books and magazines to read.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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Whether the yeast could ever be as abundant as this is open to question.
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Dusky dolphins and Burmeister's porpoise are considerably more abundant and wide-ranging than the other three species.
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There was a time when rye was more abundant than wheat and rye bread was the bread of the masses.
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Once uncommon in our waters, they have become more abundant as anchovies, a favored food, have increased in numbers.
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The most difficult job is to separate carbon-14 from the far more abundant carbon-12.
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Typical desirable resources are hundreds to thousands of times more abundant in NEOs than on the Moon.
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Saturated fatty acids were more abundant in the vesicular phase and unsaturated ones were more abundant in the micellar phase.
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In fact, theobromine is seven times more abundant than caffeine in chocolate-about 130 milligrams in a 1-ounce piece.
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These are most abundant in the paler, carbonate rich zones but are also present in the darker diatom mat laminations.
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Granite, rich in silica, is the most abundant acidic rock.
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It must time the laying of its eggs so that its chicks hatch when caterpillars are most abundant , and most palatable.
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Magnesium is the fourth most abundant cation in the body and is second only to potassium in intracellular concentration.
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Evidence is most abundant for specialists involved in ceramics and metal-working, because it survives better in the archaeological record.
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Of these, the most abundant and the easiest to handle and store is water.
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Sooner or later the predator will end up feeding preferentially on the most abundant of the available types of prey.
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Limpets are likely to vie for status as one of the most abundant types of animals found at some vents.
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To these should be added a third group, which are not so abundant in terms of volume, but which are equally important.
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If box-office is seen as the most important statistic, the information has never been so abundant .
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Their remains were so abundant that they could not be ignored.
■ NOUN
evidence
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Certainly there was abundant evidence as to how the centre-left had lost its entrenched intellectual and ideological ascendancy.
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There is abundant evidence that the skills demanded by the new economy are rising.
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They had little difficulty in finding abundant evidence for this hypothesis.
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There was abundant evidence of that.
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There is abundant evidence to indicate that Jude followed suit.
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And he singled out the abundant evidence he has found that the organizational approach is of overriding importance.
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There is, however, abundant evidence that many patients vulnerable to clinical depression have a constitutional deficit of serotonin.
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There was, however, abundant evidence of policy in action and the first tasks was to collate what was currently happening.
supply
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Within a week, one and a half million men, with abundant supplies , were in position for a massed attack.
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This was due to an abundant supply and thus relatively low costs for pork.
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One thing becomes clear about large animal size: such creatures must have an abundant supply of food.
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In contrast with serum, the ratios of 5-ASA to Ac-5-ASA are higher than 1, reflecting the abundant supply of 5-ASA.
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Nevertheless, sustained horticulture needs an abundant supply of organic waste to maintain soil structure and fertility.
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Although growth hormone is in abundant supply , other factors are limiting growth.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an abundant and cheap supply of oil
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During the 18th century land was cheap, grain was plentiful, and meat was abundant .
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Latin America has an abundant labor force and natural resources.
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Plant fossils are abundant in some types of rock.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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E-mail applications are abundant on Linux and choosing one can be the most difficult part in getting started!
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His entertainment featured abundant wine and cigars, though he himself was a non-smoking teetotaller.
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His yellow teeth gleamed in the abundant black of his full beard.
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It must time the laying of its eggs so that its chicks hatch when caterpillars are most abundant , and most palatable.
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Sam Waterston reads from the abundant writings of the tall, soft-spoken Jefferson.
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The food was abundant and delicious.
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We now live in a world where labor is abundant compared to capital.
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What a spiritual affirmation to an abundant life!