adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beginners’/elementary/intermediate/advanced class (= teaching different levels of a subject )
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An advanced class might be available.
a developed/advanced nation (= one that has many industries )
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In the developed nations, many students go on to university.
a great/advanced age (= a very old age )
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My aunt died at a great age.
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Kirby is not alone in wanting to run his own business at an advanced age.
Advanced level
advanced technology
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The labs use advanced technology to study the function of various cells.
an advanced civilization
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Philosophy is a luxury of an advanced civilization.
an advanced country
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technologically advanced countries such as Japan
an advanced learner
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Mastering idioms and phrasal verbs is frequently the greatest challenge facing the advanced learner of English.
an advanced stage
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Negotiations are at an advanced stage.
an advanced state of sth
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The dead bird was in an advanced state of decay.
an advanced/modern society
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The Greeks formed the first advanced societies in the West.
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This kind of hatred and violence have no place in a modern society like ours.
an elementary/intermediate/advanced course
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an advanced course in art and design
economically developed/advanced (= modern, with many different types of industry )
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the economically developed countries of Western Europe
technically advanced
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Agriculture is becoming more and more technically advanced .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
far
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Newington Butts had the dark, deserted look of night far advanced .
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The body had been unrecognizable, because decomposition was so far advanced .
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One thing he did was to reassure them that planning was not as far advanced as they had feared.
further
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Preparations for the projected automation of the music catalogue were further advanced .
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Students return to Edinburgh in the fourth year to take further advanced courses appropriate to their final examinations.
less
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Equally, science would be much less advanced than it is if the only available data were intuitive estimates of quantities.
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Section A is an intensive language course for beginners or less advanced students.
more
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It would provide the multitudinous popular committees and activities with a more advanced form of organisation and structure.
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Monday, 9 March the curriculum group now comments on a more advanced draft of the program quite a few changes.
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However, the cancers associated with strictures in our series tended to be more advanced than those that did not cause strictures.
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Over the past few years, pike fishing and associated tackle has become more advanced and refined.
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The nineteenth century Germanic philologist Jakob Grimm believed that grammatical gender was in some sense a more advanced form of natural gender.
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Just as Batman had Robin, you may have an assistant who can manage something a little more advanced than recent work.
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The greatest problem at the orientation stage is getting the balance between orientation and more advanced instruction.
most
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Up until now most advanced snowboarders have firmly resisted anything except a non-release binding.
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The system is said to be the most advanced in the world, and has already led to several arrests.
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An entire fleet of the most advanced ships was sent to get it back.
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In other words, the human mind was arguably being stretched throughout the most advanced civilisations of the time.
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In this respect, too, the Demoiselles was related to much of the most advanced painting of the period.
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I consider their most advanced processes and how I can interact with them.
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The most advanced technology involves the use of viruses which have been engineered for safety and to accept human genes.
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It bound together the most advanced sections of the working class.
technically
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Most polyester duvets contain the most technically advanced non-allergenic filling which have the advantage of being machine washable.
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In this respect the Empire is the most technically advanced human nation of the Warhammer World.
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The more technically advanced agriculture becomes, the smaller is its dependency on natural endowments.
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Isn't it time this sort of facility was universal - at least in the technically advanced world?
technologically
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But in those days, we thought we were quite technologically advanced people and life was good.
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The Dublin brewery is, as a result of this investment, one of the most technologically advanced of its kind.
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The most technologically advanced race in the universe, and all they do is seek knowledge.
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This research will explore the changing relationship between these three sectors through a study of one technologically advanced company.
very
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They are technically very advanced , they must be utterly reliable and effective for they are vital to industry.
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On the other hand patients presenting with very advanced disease were not included through compassionate avoidance of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.
well
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Plans for the reoccupation of Malaya were well advanced and some ships had already put to sea.
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The Thirty Years War was more a symptom than a cause of processes already well advanced .
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Even though some bushes may have well advanced young shoots they will still respond with strong new growth.
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The four inside stays are now being assembled, two are complete and the other two are well advanced .
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The reorganisation of the Pattern Room was also completed and the installation programme of the plant monitoring system was well advanced .
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There are clear signs that the process is already well advanced .
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In all the group companies, the process is well advanced .
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By 1978 work was well advanced and parts of the system were actually up and running.
■ NOUN
age
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At the advanced age of 71, Charles Bronson's wizened features are returning to the big screen.
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When talking about the elderly in this sense we are referring to people in an advanced age group of well over eighty.
capitalism
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The development from liberal to advanced capitalism has two characteristics.
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In advanced capitalism neo-Marxists argue that the factors responsible for recruiting people into organized expressions of discontent broaden.
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In the countries of advanced capitalism , on the other hand, sub-central government is rather more than an administrative device.
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Modern functionalist approaches continue to emphasize that state intervention is best explained by an impersonal logic of the development of advanced capitalism .
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Much the same point may be made about the representative assemblies of advanced capitalism .
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Second, the development of advanced capitalism produced both a large oligopolistic business sector and a large oligopolistic labour union movement.
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Will mankind, even under advanced capitalism , let alone any future more liberated society, ever cease to sing and dance?
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It abandons the attempt to detect a class struggle between exploiters and exploited within advanced capitalism .
capitalist
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My own study below is no exception and I would not claim an all-embracing explanation of advanced capitalist society from it.
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There may be similar trends in imprisonment in other advanced capitalist societies which face similar economic and social problems to Britain.
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Writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he argued that advanced capitalist societies were caught up in a major contradiction.
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The rivalry and interaction between advanced capitalist economies is a feature of this theoretical framework which is absent from world-system theories.
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However, even in advanced capitalist countries, the economic effect of degradation and erosion may not be negligible.
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The measured unemployment rate for the advanced capitalist countries had fallen below 3 percent.
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The propertied class is overrepresented in the governing institutions of all advanced capitalist states.
computer
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The information on the form is processed by our advanced computer system, which calculates all tax and National Insurance contributions.
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Unlike all those old spaceships, there is no way you could have done this without using advanced computer graphics.
country
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Table 16-5 shows data for several advanced countries in 1983.
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Employment in industrial production has itself declined in Britain and many other advanced countries during the postwar years.
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Although standards of living rose in the advanced countries , the economic gap between élite and mass remained everywhere enormous.
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Much of this work may well,of course, be servicing industry - in the advanced countries as well as in the developing countries.
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These deficits, combined with substantial outflows of capital, provided the other advanced countries with additional dollar reserves.
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Equal opportunity legislation exists in most advanced countries but this is not yet reflected in equal pay rates.
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Diphtheria, whooping-cough and scarlet fever rapidly declined in advanced countries .
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A major development encouraging trade between the advanced countries was tariff cuts.
course
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Short, long and advanced courses are available.
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Registration Students entering an advanced course of study are normally registered from 1 October.
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On the job training can lead to City &038; Guilds qualifications, as well as to more advanced courses and professional qualifications.
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In addition, some authorities have transferred to their colleges of higher education advanced courses previously located in other major establishments.
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To date advanced courses have been designed on an input model with emphasis being on the content.
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The last nine months have also seen continuing development in the National Certificate and in our advanced courses provision.
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Doing the advanced course directly after the basic was an excellent idea.
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An advanced course develops existing expertise - exploring factors that influence the customer, business, produce and sales-person.
disease
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Because of the side effects, this treatment programme has been used only in young, fit individuals with locally advanced disease .
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These dismal survival figures are due to the fact that most patients in the United Kingdom present with advanced disease .
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On the other hand patients presenting with very advanced disease were not included through compassionate avoidance of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.
economy
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In advanced economies the cheque and associated electronic transfer techniques have become the chief means of payment in the business world.
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And where would the trigger for worldwide revolution come from - advanced economies or those still in the process of industrialization?
form
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It would provide the multitudinous popular committees and activities with a more advanced form of organisation and structure.
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Another advanced form of processor is hypertext.
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The nineteenth century Germanic philologist Jakob Grimm believed that grammatical gender was in some sense a more advanced form of natural gender.
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And that's one reason why I spent a middle-sized fortune in the most advanced form in Intelloid in the universe.
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He also instructs them in advanced forms of the system.
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Before the coming of the Etruscans there was no advanced form of art and architecture.
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I contend that such Biros employ an advanced form of camouflage.
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Since the theory is more general it is also more complicated and, in its advanced forms , more abstract.
level
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The six carefully graded stages take students from elementary to advanced level .
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They demand an advanced level of quality technical sales support and the tailoring of research and technology to meet customer requirements.
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At the advanced levels of the art, use of the butterfly knives is incorporated in a set form, or pattern.
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Spontaneous natural selection requires an advanced level of organization at the micro-biological stage.
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Subjects not studied at school can be taken up and pursued to an advanced level .
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At a more advanced level , management and leadership development courses cover administration, planning, communication and facilitation skills.
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Final-year units also treat general theoretical and practical concerns but at a more advanced level , and in a more concentrated manner.
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The student first masters manipulation of the single sabre, then at a more advanced level , the twin swords.
material
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Level Most public library authorities place a strong emphasis on introductory materials and standard works, rather than on advanced material.
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Faraday/Industrial Division: Light on polymers - photochemistry and advanced materials .
society
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This applies especially to the life of the more affluent, most of whom are concentrated in the advanced societies .
stage
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Accountants Ernst &038; Young, which is handling the sale, said negotiations were at an advanced stage .
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Developments had either been realised or were at least in the advanced stages of negotiation in the bulk of its area.
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Negotiations are at an advanced stage .
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In advanced stages of instruction students are guided towards techniques of self-defence, under realistic conditions.
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At advanced stages of learning the student mounts his attacks in twisting, spiralling movements.
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But the deal collapsed when it reached an advanced stage an advanced.
state
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The post-graduate course in restorative art was in an advanced state of preparation.
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But running through all these was the belief that an advanced state could not be run without a bureaucracy.
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Currently, time-consuming psychological tests are carried out only when a patient is in an advanced state of dementia.
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She was in an advanced state of pregnancy and her first child was born on the spot by caesarean section.
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She was in the bedroom at the time and in an advanced state of pregnancy.
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One day I found a dead blackbird, already in an advanced state of decay, in the road outside my house.
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However, Fahey and Narayanan comment, in practice scanning frequently detects environmental change that is already at an advanced state .
student
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Section A is an intensive language course for beginners or less advanced students .
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Psychological studies have confirmed this: the more advanced students have much less aggressive personalities than the average person.
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It is designed to provide advanced students with all the grammatical and semantic information they are likely to need.
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This makes it accessible to elementary as well as more advanced students .
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Genes probably goes beyond most introductory courses and will also prove useful to advanced students .
study
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The third level takes students into advanced studies .
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Each course involves more advanced study of the topic in question than at ordinary level.
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At postgraduate level the Bucher and Fraser Scholarships provide opportunities for further research or for advanced studies in composition or performance.
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The department is accordingly a highly suitable base for postgraduate students seeking to pursue research or advanced study in comparative law.
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The student engages in advanced studies or chooses a career related to the foreign language study.
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These advanced studies build into the planning model information which is specifically relevant to a chosen retail market sector.
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For more advanced study , it is important for the reader at least to be aware of these complications.
system
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It incorporates all the Solaris Workgroup technologies plus advanced system administration, commercial-grade input-output and enterprise-wide installation.
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Socially useful designs of advanced systems would develop these techniques further.
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More advanced systems have screen resolutions of 1024 x 1024 or greater.
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More complicated fish may need more advanced systems .
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Notice, however, that it isn't the Apple/Taligent effort or even Apple advanced systems that is spearheading the effort.
technique
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We are establishing an ethical committee to look at the effects of advanced techniques in animal breeding.
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In essence we aim to provide a personal service of the highest standard by combining advanced techniques and specialist knowledge.
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After that come more advanced techniques which students need to perform for the next grading.
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These advanced techniques involve partnering up with a fellow student and following a step-by-step routine of attack, defence and counter-attack.
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It covers: The basic and advanced techniques required for instrument flight.
technology
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We may have to wait for much more advanced technology before we can do that.
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Moreover, Hewlett-Packard is not yet convinced that the market is ready for such advanced technologies on the desktop.
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The most advanced technology involves the use of viruses which have been engineered for safety and to accept human genes.
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However, restoration of priceless cultural objects needs the continued input of advanced technology .
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It is a name which combines traditional craftsmanship, award winning artistry, and the benefits of today's most advanced technology .
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With Autoseeker fitted you only have to make one simple phone call and Autoseeker's advanced technology does the rest.
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Designing, building, and delivering advanced technology for domestic and foreign governments, the military and commercial customers.
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Before becoming a guitarist he played clarinet and uses advanced technology to approximate the breathy sound of a wind instrument.
work
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It is recommended for publishing students as it gives a useful background to advanced work .
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He wondered whether, before ordination, he should stay at Cambridge a little longer to do more advanced work .
years
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Male speaker Inevitably at her advanced years , it's difficult for her to overcome.
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She addressed her young guest with civilities suitable for a personage of advanced years and uncertain appetite.
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As you probably know, Herr Sanders is a gentleman of advanced years , inclined to be a little vague.
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Towards the rector he was a polite listener, a concession to the man's advanced years and his calling.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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advanced students of English
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By this time, Greg's illness was too far advanced to be treated.
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Many of the nations of southeast Asia will one day be as advanced as Japan or South Korea.
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Modern armies consist of fewer soldiers and more advanced weapons systems.
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Social problems such as teen pregnancy, drug abuse, and high divorce rates are often common in the most advanced countries.
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The bomb-detection equipment now used in most airports is very advanced .
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The factory has installed advanced machinery at enormous cost.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All other students take a course in advanced texts from the Hebrew Bible.
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Most 11-year-olds are not being encouraged to develop advanced reading skills; a small but significant number are illiterate.
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Over the same period, research on advanced nuclear reactors will be eliminated and one of the two uranium enrichment plants closed.
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Perhaps the main problem for these Marxist writers is the aristocracy of labour in the advanced industrial countries.
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There were lectures on quite advanced medical care, on intelligence-gathering, signalling and demolitions.
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What would happen if other advanced nations did the same?