noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
war of attrition
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
rate
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That compares with an attrition rate of just over a quarter during Ronald Reagan's presidency.
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It assumes a 5 percent annual attrition rate but that might be over-generous.
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The 2. 05 percent attrition rate the agency had managed to maintain promised to go straight through the roof.
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Their attrition rates generally are even higher than the rates at four-year institutions.
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The faculty was undistinguished, teaching methods uninspired, and the attrition rate , of course, appalling.
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The attrition rate was horrible, especially on the days that Nabers ordered strenuous exercise drills.
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Siemens builds an attrition rate into its design and does not anticipate that all students will finish.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a war of attrition
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It assumes a 5 percent annual attrition rate but that might be over-generous.
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One is to continue his war of attrition against parliament, albeit from a position of greater strength since the referendum.
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Part of the attrition on my military reserves had been the expenses.
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The 2. 05 percent attrition rate the agency had managed to maintain promised to go straight through the roof.
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Their attrition rates generally are even higher than the rates at four-year institutions.
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These are the economics, not of efficiency, but of attrition .
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Worse was expected to come as industrial and domestic consumption of electricity picked up after the attrition of the war years.