noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
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It takes too long, and high birthrates themselves inhibit development.
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Demographers estimate that about 60 percent of recent urban growth has resulted from high birthrates in the cities themselves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In California, the average birthrate was just slightly above the national pace.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But with no corresponding drop in birthrates the population line was propelled into the demographic stratosphere.
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Each extra year of school also reduces the birthrate and cuts maternal deaths.
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Even if birthrates decline it will be necessary to generate millions more jobs, more schoolrooms, more acres of agriculture.
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It was a time when teen birthrates soared.
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Shrinking numbers Falling birthrates and statistical ambiguities aside, there has none the less been a major exodus.
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The birthrate could only just keep pace.