verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a company grows/expands
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The company has expanded year on year.
an industry grows/expands
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The clothing industry grew rapidly during the 1960s.
broaden/expand sb’s horizons
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a course of study that will broaden your horizons
broaden/expand your knowledge (= increase your knowledge )
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The course is designed to help students broaden their knowledge of modern American literature.
develop/expand the economy
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The tax cut should help to expand the economy.
expand/improve your vocabulary ( also enrich your vocabulary formal )
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Reading helps to expand your vocabulary.
extend/expand the scope of sth
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They may extend the scope of the project.
rapidly growing/changing/expanding etc
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the rapidly changing world of technology
the economy develops/expands/grows (= becomes more successful )
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The economy grew by 3% last year.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
greatly
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In December 1990 the already extensive presidential powers were greatly expanded with the creation of a new state leadership structure.
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In California and Florida, state funding and technical assistance for career academies have greatly expanded the number of such programs statewide.
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By 1958 much trade discrimination had been eliminated, and both production and the volume of trade had greatly expanded .
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And our sociological horizons have greatly expanded .
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This has been greatly expanded to provide a deeper experience for visitors.
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The bar scene greatly expanded in the seventies as well.
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The powers of the Federal government were greatly expanded .
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We present twelve different categories of these, but the number could be greatly expanded .
rapidly
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Where internet trading will continue to expand rapidly is in business-to-business transactions.
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Since the I950s, world trade has expanded rapidly , driving incomes higher along the way.
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The story starts in the middle of the last century when Darlington was expanding rapidly .
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She added to his rapidly expanding jewelry collection.
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Peterborough is expanding rapidly as a New Town.
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The benefit has been expanding rapidly since a 1989 lawsuit forced the government to ease requirements for coverage.
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The Boston economy expanded rapidly during the 1970s and the shift from a manufacturing to a service base accelerated during that time.
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And the rapidly expanding public school system itself created a huge demand for teachers.
■ NOUN
activity
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Funding is being sought to allow the network to expand its outreach activities .
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During his senior year, Jeff is expanding his activities .
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At the centre of these events was the announcement that Sellafield wanted to expand its activities .
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In western countries, in modern times, economic growth and expanding public activity have, with rare exceptions, gone together.
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But the zemstvos in particular rapidly expanded their activities during the ensuing decades.
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Many of these companies may also benefit from economies of scale as they expand into such activities .
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It was a close-knit community with no ambition to expand its interests and activities .
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Up to the infamous Distillers bid, Saunders did much to revive the brewing group's fortunes and expand its activities .
area
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Furthermore, training provision is being expanded into areas such as International Trade and Management.
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Huizenga plans to expand into the areas of electronic security and billboard advertising.
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Cashline has recently been expanded into new areas of operation, including airports, shopping centres, supermarkets and petrol stations.
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As the medical establishment tightened its monopoly on diagnosis and prescription, it also expanded the area under its control.
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The possibility of expanding into other areas outside canoeing is also being considered.
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Future plans include expanding their service area to include South Dakota, Wisconsin and Montana.
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He expanded the area of cut grass to encircle nearer trees - this was his own idea and it pleased him hugely.
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Telephone experience, especially in the expanding call centre area , is valued.
base
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From a small, localised clientele, the company has now expanded into a customer base which stretches from Southampton to Wick.
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So, too, they can be eroded by others who seek to expand their own bases of power.
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Therefore, will he use all the influence of his Department to expand the shrinking manufacturing base of Britain?
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When times are hard, more people apply to be representatives and Betterware expands its distribution base .
business
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The business continued to expand , and a high sport occurred when the King himself opened an account in 1800.
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But how long can the coffee retail business continue to expand ?
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And there are other more mature markets in which our business can be expanded further.
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But outside the studio, his control of Ray Charles as business commodity expanded .
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The first three years went well and the business continued to expand .
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We hope your business needs to expand .
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The split also will free the other businesses to expand at a quicker pace, giving them what Dun&038;.
capacity
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Transaction costs have encouraged firms to expand their own internal capacity in preference to extensive reliance on outside suppliers.
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Chellam also said the memory-chip maker will expand production capacity more than 40 percent this year.
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A bladder which is frequently emptied does not expand to its full capacity and needs gentle stretching to bring this about.
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Officials say they will expand glyphosate capacity by about 50 % over the next three years.
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Its expanded capacity could provide enough water for an additional 1 million Phoenix-area residents, experts say.
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Satellite communications have recently expanded the capacity of governments to use the media to communicate with other governments.
company
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So, when a company first looks to expand abroad, the same process needs to be adopted.
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But after his retirement, Alsop &038; Company managers sought to expand the business through speculation.
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From a small, localised clientele, the company has now expanded into a customer base which stretches from Southampton to Wick.
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The company also is expanding into the cellular phone business.
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Mr Lessard says he is not looking to sell the company and would rather expand Metro beyond the province's borders.
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The rise in imports reflects the efforts of foreign companies to expand sales networks and improve service here.
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A company may expand by increasing the share capital and the number of directors.
economy
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Private enterprise now accounts for half the economy and is expanding by 25% a year.
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A national economy that is expanding without creating inflationary pressures that would force the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.
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The Boston economy expanded rapidly during the 1970s and the shift from a manufacturing to a service base accelerated during that time.
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All this changes drastically in industrial societies, where the economy is perpetually expanding .
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Its economy is rapidly expanding , partly thanks to its many natural resources and its enormous reserves of hydro-electric energy.
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Thereafter, however, the economy expanded considerably.
effort
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Virtuoso trombonist he is not, though his efforts to expand the instrument's profile must be admired.
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Even to suggest that efforts he made to expand the labor force by increasing the domestic birth rate would seem slightly artful.
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After 1972 the semi-autonomous administration made efforts to rehabilitate and expand the system.
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Serious efforts are made to expand the labor force.
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It was a mighty effort to expand and complete a process of reform that had its roots in the New Deal.
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Many authorities were making a conscious effort to expand the social group from which their secondary pupils were drawn.
firm
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Transaction costs have encouraged firms to expand their own internal capacity in preference to extensive reliance on outside suppliers.
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A firm looking to expand will not simply contemplate recruiting new partners or opening up new branch offices.
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The size and the number of actuarial firms is expanding rapidly in response to the demand for their services.
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As the two firms expanded they inevitably found themselves close to each other's turf.
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Note that the ability of firms to expand output in this situation depends upon the existence of unemployed resources in the economy.
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Whether by some form of contract or by increasing local capital, firms can continue expanding their economic involvement.
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Also, as owning firms have expanded they have diversified and have found themselves in competition with their consortium offspring.
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Many are firms that expanded and invested with no expectation of 15 percent. interest rates.
horizon
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You might have some fun, make new friends, expand your own personal horizons .
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Art escaped his kin to expand his horizons , so he knows exactly what drove Mark away.
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His mission in life is to expand the horizons of those around him.
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And it will expand her horizons .
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This resistance can only be overcome as you gently persuade and cajole subordinates to expand their horizons .
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Like millions of other women around the world, she has learned that work outside the home has expanded her horizons .
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Try to find a copy if you are considering expanding your horizons .
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Another possible use of video in a training programme is to trigger new ideas and expand trainees' horizons .
industry
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It is important that the people are involved, because the industry itself is expanding at an extraordinary rate.
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Will the industry expand or contract?
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We must be prepared to adapt as some industries and occupations expand and others contract.
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Both of our conditions therefore say that trade is beneficial if on average the output of highly monopolized industries expands .
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When the industry is expanding and labour is scarce, management will obviously have less control over productivity.
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Stimulated by technological progress, the cotton industry expanded more and more.
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From 1950 the chemical industry expanded quickly with the use of oil both as raw material and as fuel.
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As the partial equilibrium analysis suggested, a procompetitive effect, with monopolistic industries expanding , is expected from trade.
market
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Instead the market has expanded , giving all operators the opportunity to make a profit.
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As the special economic zones expanded , the scope of the market expanded.
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According to the company, the market is expanding fast: three-quarters of its sales were made in the past 18 months.
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If the food market expands , they reason, it could reduce the need to spray crops with harmful pesticides.
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But why did they choose to build on their own valuable market places instead of expanding outwards into suburbs?
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These adjustments carry through to the resource market as expanding industries demand more resources and contracting industries demand fewer.
network
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Proceeds will be used to expand existing networks and to build new ones, the company said.
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The best social principle to follow may be to build the enterprise upon existing and expanding social networks .
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The idea is to expand its network business for the international arena, especially the telecommunications market.
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The rise in imports reflects the efforts of foreign companies to expand sales networks and improve service here.
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Docherty declined to say how much the companies are investing together in expanding the network .
number
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Degrees such as media studies have enjoyed huge growth as universities have expanded the number of places to meet ambitious government targets.
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In California and Florida, state funding and technical assistance for career academies have greatly expanded the number of such programs statewide.
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It is certainly encouraging that parents, not government, are choosing to expand the number of integrated schools in the Province.
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Have physicians' fees fallen relative to other prices in response to the growing competition among the rapidly expanding numbers of physicians?
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The T9000's built-in communications links enable the internal bandwidth of the parallel processor to expand proportionately to the number of processing nodes.
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With growing demand, Mike could exercise exchange leverage over an expanding number of people ready to change.
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It is clear that it could be borne only if society itself were expanding in wealth and numbers .
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Quality, creativity, and originality do not expand automatically as the number of outlets increases.
operation
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It is investing heavily in research and development, and is expanding its marketing operation this year.
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Offsetting that, homebuilder Crossman Communities Inc. said it would expand its Columbus operations .
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In the years that followed it expanded operations without seeking local approval, earning little goodwill in Guadalcazar.
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Twinlab and Rexall both have expanded operations in recent months.
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Hence, the trucking companies have expanded their operations .
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After the Watts rebellion, Johnsoh asked Hoover to expand his intelligence operations to include riot prediction.
opportunity
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But as internet opportunities expand it is coming into its own.
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It is an opportunity to expand the responsibilities of John Langley, an up-and-coming salesman getting some great results in the north.
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 brought him an excellent opportunity to expand his business and he seized it with relish.
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It also offers the ideal opportunity for employees to expand their work experience.
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Many labour-only subcontractors have grasped the opportunity to expand initially to a labour and material sub-contractor and subsequently to a general contractor.
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This offers you an opportunity to expand the scope of adventuring in the Castle greatly.
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I hope, therefore, that it will look at the opportunities for expanding the scheme.
plan
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Fierce protests greeted ReChem's recently announced plans to expand near Southampton.
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Future plans include expanding their service area to include South Dakota, Wisconsin and Montana.
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The business will employ 36 workers at first with plans to expand .
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Giddy from their wartime success, the Communists launched an ambitious plan aimed at expanding the economy by 14 percent a year.
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The wreck of Braer will not cause the oil industry to ground its plans to expand .
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The first phase of the plan involves expanding its existing solar station beside the closed Rancho Seco nuclear plant this year.
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That was commissioned to take account of plans to expand the cross-London commuter Thameslink rail service.
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Our recently announced plans to significantly expand our hosting infrastructure are moving rapidly.
program
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Harley-Davidson is pushing to introduce more people to its products with an expanded rental program .
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Proceeds help expand the raptor program , a series of natural hunting and group behavior demonstrations by those ever-gorgeous Harris hawks.
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Plans were to expand the program to 300 students by 1997.
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Both of these Republican presidents undertook aggressive antitrust actions, and both strongly supported, and expanded , federal housing programs .
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President Bush wants to expand the housing program started in 1992, when his father was president.
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Plans are to enroll 100 participants from five high schools this summer and then expand the program in future years.
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Senate bill would expand the voluntary program to the entire nation for the next three years.
range
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The redshank has vastly expanded its breeding range in Shetland in the last thirty years or so.
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To achieve electoral success, pragmatic parties might shift their position or expand the range of viewpoints they encompass.
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In this way, the child learns to expand his/ her range of alternative coping strategies.
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In fact, though, various developments are expanding the range of public engagement.
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The presence of these additional mystical agencies complements the non-mystical causes already examined and thus expands the range of explanation.
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Since then, the death cap has been steadily expanding its range , helped along recently by a string of rainy winters.
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Jez San finds that games consoles are shrinking in size but expanding in range and addictiveness potential..
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We're expanding the range , so there's bags of variation there.
rate
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It is important that the people are involved, because the industry itself is expanding at an extraordinary rate .
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M3 expanded at an annual rate of 1. 9 percent in the first 11 months of 1995.
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All this is perhaps inevitable in a subject which is expanding at the rate of around 1000 research publications a year.
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London expanded at a remarkable rate .
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The population of the town soon began to expand at a phenomenal rate .
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Branson, he argued, was attempting to expand at a faster rate than the resources of the company allowed.
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It was a route she chose originally because she did not have enough capital to expand at the rate business demanded.
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At that rate the flow of bank lending is, and the money supply is expanding at a corresponding rate.
role
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Achieving environmentally-sustainable mobility must include an expanded role for public transport, and requires many kinds of action.
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Encourage women to play expanded roles in their communities?
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The role of the teacher could be expanded to encompass the role of researcher.
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These are not encouraging recommendations for expanding the role of public opinion in major decision making about affairs of state.
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Computerisation allows doctors to expand their largely reactive role of sitting in the surgery waiting for ill patients to come to them.
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Republicans were suspicious about what they saw as an expanding role for the government.
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Eleven years ago I wrote to the then President of our Institute making the case for expanding the role of the Institute.
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This new and expanded role for employees will exert enormous pressures on employees and companies alike to invest in education and retraining.
scope
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Since about 1840 they had been expanding the scope of their products to include the whole range of cotton-processing machinery.
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As the special economic zones expanded , the scope of the market expanded.
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He might have expanded the scope of this intriguing remark.
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By 1996 the strategy had succeeded in significantly expanding the scope of school-to-work in Tulsa.
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Beto continued the policy but expanded the scope of inmate productivity to include building on a large scale.
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This offers you an opportunity to expand the scope of adventuring in the Castle greatly.
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The remaining seven chapters, many of which have been introduced in the second edition, considerably expand the scope of coverage.
service
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When the war began the civil service was expanded to cope with a multitude of new tasks.
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Later, Daley would shrink civil service and expand the patronage army.
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There is sometimes a tendency for a generalist service to expand into specialisms with which it is in daily contact.
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At the same time, health and welfare services will have to expand for a growing and aging population.
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So the role of the civil service expands not merely because ministers are overwhelmed with work but because Parliament is also.
system
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The most difficult part of the Boards' programme of expanding the distribution system was in rural areas.
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He hopes to expand the existing tram system that ferries visitors from outlying parking lots to key spots through out the park.
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And the rapidly expanding public school system itself created a huge demand for teachers.
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Consider how easy it is to expand the system both in terms of users and in terms of extra facilities.
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The immediate need is to expand the entire system .
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The money was desperately needed to expand the system to accommodate an ever-increasing population.
universe
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This is the direction of time in which the universe is expanding rather than contracting.
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The same can be said of the postmodern discovery that the universe is expanding .
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That motivation disappeared when it was discovered that the universe is expanding .
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But as the universe expanded , the temperature of the radiation decreased.
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And why is the direction of time in which disorder increases the same as that in which the universe expands ?
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The new simulations, it is claimed, show that instead the universe will go on expanding for ever.
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In the present epoch the systematic red shift of galactic spectra indicates that the Universe is expanding .
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Will the universe eventually stop expanding and start contracting, or will it expand for ever?
■ VERB
allow
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Funding is being sought to allow the network to expand its outreach activities.
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However, be sure the gap is wide enough to allow the wood to expand and contract.
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Rather, the best argument for privatisation is that it would allow the railways to expand their services.
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But that method would not allow Texas to expand its Medicaid program.
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Computerisation allows doctors to expand their largely reactive role of sitting in the surgery waiting for ill patients to come to them.
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The electricity can then be regenerated by allowing the air to expand in a turbine.
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Popular schools will be allowed to expand , and more schools will be able to apply for technology funding.
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This soft filling is intended to allow the fire-back to expand under the fierce heat without cracking.
begin
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The object thereupon begins to expand , and it will rapidly pick up speed.
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The problem began to expand to levels at once more profound and absurd.
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The cramped dock area began to expand eastwards across the newly exposed terrain.
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Broadcasts to a limited audience begin today, while expanded programming starts on April 15.
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The population of the town soon began to expand at a phenomenal rate.
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Within hours the bubble had begun to expand and rise, sucking in the surrounding air.
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Gradually, the number of individual objectors prepared to enter the fray began to expand outside the initial handful.
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The soul begins to expand , the blood begins to flow more sweetly in your veins.
continue
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This was on entirely modern lines and has continued to expand right up to the present time.
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But how long can the coffee retail business continue to expand ?
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Where internet trading will continue to expand rapidly is in business-to-business transactions.
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Freedom of movement and economic choice and even in some ways commentary have continued to expand .
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We will continue to expand higher education and training.
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However, it is continuing to expand its in-store banking centers, which are a lower-cost way to deliver financial services.
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Whether by some form of contract or by increasing local capital, firms can continue expanding their economic involvement.
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Building after building, the Puzzle Palace continued to expand its empire.
expect
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The public-sector deficit was expected to expand from 33,900 million pesos in 1989 to at least 55,100 million by the end of 1990.
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And existing child care programs are expected to expand .
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He can well afford extravagances and is expected to expand his art collection still further.
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It was absolutely no good just giving them a sketch and expecting them to expand on it using their own initiative.
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Currently, some 450 intermediaries are linked to the service and this is expected to expand .
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They expect to expand at the expense not of each other but of traditional restaurants.
help
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It also helps students to expand and develop vocabulary, which is one of the key needs at this level.
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But far more volunteers are needed to help the hospice expand it's reach.
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Volunteers are still needed to help the hospice expand its current home sitter service.
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However, modernisation will help to expand the programme further, including film shows, shadow puppetry and matinees - presently impracticable.
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This would help expand Moby's loyalties and prevent him from becoming too dependent on his main daytime companion.
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Computers will help expand personal creativity, too.
hope
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Sparc Technology will also sell Sun system designs, hoping to expand indirectly into the portable, X terminal and embedded markets.
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He hopes to expand the existing tram system that ferries visitors from outlying parking lots to key spots through out the park.
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It is then hoped to expand its use to other joint surgery which requires precision drilling.
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Officials hope to expand the effort to the San Antonio Zoo this year.
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Your reactions are important as we hope to expand our range of environmentally-friendly goods in future offers.
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Murdoch said he hopes to expand beyond what those two companies offer and use satellites for data transmissions via computers.
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John Lewis hopes to expand its range to include 2500 items by autumn 2001.
seek
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First, the agency may seek to expand a given government programme by systematically overstating the benefits or understating the costs.
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But after his retirement, Alsop &038; Company managers sought to expand the business through speculation.
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Section 8 grants A road haulage business seeking to expand need not restrict itself entirely to the road transport industry.
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So, too, they can be eroded by others who seek to expand their own bases of power.
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Competition between love of words and of the world they seek to represent expands in Ulysses.
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Corporations involved in the escalating race to acquire media properties seek not only expanded profitability but also increasing influence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dr. Martin also helped expand housing opportunities for people with AIDs.
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Heat makes the gas in the container expand .
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Medical insurance companies expanded rapidly during the 1980s.
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Metals expand when they are heated.
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Pepsi has aggressive plans to expand overseas.
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She intends to expand the company's operations in the US.
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The agency hopes to expand coverage of new musical talent on its Internet site.
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The business was growing rapidly and beginning to expand abroad.
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The population of Texas expanded rapidly in the '60s.
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The sports and leisure market is expanding more quickly than ever before.
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The universe is constantly expanding.
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The university is planning to expand the number of students to over 20,000.
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They fund programs that expand health benefits to wider segments of the community.
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Trade between developing countries and industrialized countries is beginning to expand .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Domestication of new animals for their products will probably expand to meet the demands no longer met from wild stock.
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Gradually, the number of individual objectors prepared to enter the fray began to expand outside the initial handful.
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New Historicism's usual response to this is to expand on Montrose's point about the inevitability of critical partiality existing.
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The 1980s saw the romance movement expand and change directions somewhat.
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The containers are made of peat and wood fiber laced with soluble fertilizer and peat pellets that expand when watered.
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The Drugs unit aims to expand pupils' knowledge of drugs so that they appreciate that only some drugs are socially acceptable.