adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
increasingly likely
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The project looked increasingly likely to fail.
increasingly popular
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Business management courses are increasingly popular.
increasingly unlikely (= more and more unlikely as time passes )
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It looks increasingly unlikely that the Bank of England will cut interest rates.
increasingly unpopular (= more and more unpopular as time passes )
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The war was becoming increasingly unpopular.
increasingly violent
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Over the past year, his behavior has become increasingly violent.
increasingly worried
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The family became increasingly worried about her safety.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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apparent
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Tracy shows us her feelings a lot more, increasingly apparent in video shots of her when she received the Beefeater trophy.
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It is now increasingly apparent that the entire universe from vast galaxies to microscopic cells unfolds through systems of spontaneous self-organization.
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Recently, it has become increasingly apparent this economic approach is limited.
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So let us turn to another increasingly apparent fact: Gore probably won more votes than Bush in Florida too.
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This will become increasingly apparent throughout the rest of this book.
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Not withstanding his attempts to appease conservative critics, Mr Frohnmayer's aversion to placing any restrictions on artistic freedom was increasingly apparent .
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It is increasingly apparent that the context of an election is important in shaping its result.
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As we emerge from the recession that will become increasingly apparent .
aware
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He slid on top of Solveig, kissing her, increasingly aware of ripples in her body beneath him.
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But after so many of these experiences, we ought to be becoming increasingly aware of the danger.
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The major political parties, the Conservatives and the Liberals, were increasingly aware of the need to compete for working-class support.
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Archaeologists are becoming increasingly aware of the high cost and destructiveness of excavation.
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The Trust has become increasingly aware , as funding becomes available, of the unrivalled educational resource of its properties.
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In the work of both painters one becomes increasingly aware of the fact that they are making use of a variable viewpoint.
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Colleges and Catholic schools at a time when both are increasingly aware of the need to co-operate more closely with each other.
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She was increasingly aware of the way he was holding her.
clear
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It's becoming increasingly clear that Class War's gone soft, what with the film and the book.
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And it became increasingly clear to his closest friends that he could not live comfortably with success.
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Lessons from the past Since the 1960s the impact of good management at school level has been increasingly clear .
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After Galileo s stargazing it became increasingly clear that the Earth was just another planet, part of some one else s heavens.
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But there was a better notion; it grew increasingly clear in his mind.
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That message will become increasingly clear .
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But it became increasingly clear that he did not.
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What is increasingly clear , however, is that the effects of advertising do not depend only on what the advertiser does.
competitive
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Training for partners and staff is necessary and costly although important in an increasingly competitive market.
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Warner Digital Studios is one of a handful of studio in-house operations that have entered the increasingly competitive visual effects business.
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The continuity of such investment is key to the generation of consistently improving operating results in increasingly competitive markets.
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Finally, it is essential to develop more cost-effective rockets in an increasingly competitive international market for commercial and scientific launch services.
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In an increasingly competitive market, there is evidence of quantitative and qualitative success.
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Conditions of service are attractive and increasingly competitive .
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They were, however, undergoing significant change in response to an increasingly competitive and volatile business environment.
complex
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Second, the information technology market is becoming increasingly complex .
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Subsequent period-doubling bifurcations appear as r is increased, resulting in increasingly complex periodic solutions.
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The adventure will become increasingly complex , deadly and demanding as it progresses.
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Very enjoyable when young, but increasingly complex with bottle age.
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During the past decade fundraisers' search for new donors has been increasingly complex and expensive.
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With Gibbons to guide me, I examine them one by one, and my salads grow increasingly complex .
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Even the General Staff is but one actor in an increasingly complex policy process.
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But it was the omnipresent manufacturer's logo woven into increasingly complex designs that really offended the fashion police.
concerned
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Local conservationists have become increasingly concerned about the impact of the booming trade in wild fungi in the region.
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Five years ago, increasingly concerned about the environment, he decided to work directly for an environmental group.
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Research is increasingly concerned with evaluation of services as well as assessment of need.
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I am increasingly concerned that validators increasingly fail to use as an important criterion the total experience of a student.
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Police became increasingly concerned for their prisoner's health over the weekend.
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Feminist psychologists are also increasingly concerned to avoid dogmatism and prescription.
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Field studies were also important for early efforts to monitor the environment, an area with which governments were increasingly concerned .
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Nevertheless ecology has started with that which is obvious to the eye and is increasingly concerned with what is not.
difficult
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But debts were becoming increasingly difficult to bring home.
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Not only were the funds difficult to find but it was becoming increasingly difficult to justify such expenditure on newspapers.
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But landing Domingo has grown increasingly difficult .
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Life becomes increasingly difficult for those who refuse.
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Otherwise, it will then become increasingly difficult to re-establish your authority at a later stage.
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Warm, affectionate moments may become less frequent and increasingly difficult to achieve.
important
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Its role, however, is increasingly important as an ancillary to selling both in the receiving and giving senses.
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Even with the occasional gaffe, marketers say placing products in movies is an increasingly important way to enhance exposure.
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The use of corpora is becoming increasingly important in the production of dictionaries.
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This latter aim is increasingly important amidst debates about what health insurance should cover.
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This use of new spatial sensations was to become an increasingly important feature of Braque's work.
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It became increasingly important that observed falls be linked to recovered samples of meteorites.
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But it is becoming increasingly important that an accord on foreign corporate investment is negotiated between leading industrial nations.
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That makes film sales an increasingly important measure of profit.
likely
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The increasingly likely dismissal of President Abdurrahman Wahid is grabbing most attention.
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It is increasingly likely that many of the lessons learnt at Wharram Percy apply to settlements elsewhere in the country.
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As stockpiles dwindled, the continuing impasse in negotiations rendered military conflict increasingly likely .
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Despite some similarities, it seems increasingly likely that the pathogenic mechanisms of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are distinct.
popular
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It's increasingly popular and this book's a practical guide to using the remedies.
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The most strident noise was the beep-beep of small motor-scooters which were becoming increasingly popular .
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It is becoming increasingly popular - why not go along to a meeting near you?
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Because bond insurance helps municipalities trim borrowing costs, it has become increasingly popular nationwide.
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This method is becoming increasingly popular and has great benefits in terms of aerobatic flying.
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Such high-octane tours have become increasingly popular .
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But kidnapping as an income source is an increasingly popular and frightening practice.
■ VERB
become
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It becomes increasingly more important to keep your body still, especially when putting.
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Still, industry sources acknowledge that stars have greater leverage in such negotiations as the search for prime-time hits becomes increasingly desperate.
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Third, the market - and especially the financial sector - is becoming increasingly global in nature.
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As Tim grew older, his father became increasingly involved in parenting.
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Her mind was taken up with puzzling over a fact which had become increasingly clear the longer she stayed in the apartment.
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My constituents who are in prison - I hope not for too long - are becoming increasingly disaffected.
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But as the separation from her husband lengthened, she found herself becoming increasingly despondent.
come
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It was the post-conciliar Church that came increasingly to recognize this as the norm, at least for smaller congregations.
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None the less the motivation for it would come increasingly from the scholarship roles of the sociologists in society.
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Members of congress increasingly came to believe that they could insulate themselves against electoral defeat by assiduous attention to constituency casework.
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In addition, concrete operational children increasingly come to regard punishment by reciprocity as more appropriate than expiatory punishment.
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Völkisch opinion on these subjects came increasingly to the fore with simplistic solutions that fitted in well with the Junker statusquo.
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Adding to the burden, the money available to students and their families for swelling college tuition increasingly comes with a premium.
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But in the late 1960s the relative autonomy of the teaching profession over the curriculum came increasingly under attack.
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Whereas William Wilson remained an abstract figure for him, Work had increasingly come to life.
feel
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Now that they had left Naples way behind them she felt increasingly less secure.
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As the farmers who held out felt increasingly alone, their methods grew more and more violent.
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I have felt increasingly uneasy about such motions in recent months.
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Rather than seeing a light at the end of the sanctions tunnel, Hussein felt increasingly boxed in.
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He knew he was quite safe, yet he felt increasingly tense as he ascended the steep path in the faint light.
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In time, however, a definite emotional feeling begins to arise whereby one feels increasingly attuned to the Cosmos.
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This is specially calibrated to feel increasingly firm as the speed rises.
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As his silence stretched from seconds into minutes, I felt increasingly embarrassed.
grow
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Meanwhile, state propaganda grows increasingly powerful.
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But the sound of it has been growing increasingly insistent, and George W Bush has become its latest target.
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We ran out of crisps and conversation and were growing increasingly legless and puzzled.
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Predictable starting up a corporate hierarchy grows increasingly uncommon, and frequent movement around the webs of organizational activity is increasing.
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Such excellence threw the next hour into even sharper relief with two sides growing increasingly scrappy.
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The antiabortion movement grew increasingly aggressive and violent after Reagan took office in 1981.
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Wounded loyalty and dignified pathos were her line on stage, although off-stage she grew increasingly self-assertive.
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The feminist therapists returned in the afternoon to watch the panel in action-and grew increasingly distressed as they witnessed the proceedings.
look
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Seasoned observers of Angeleno politics can only just believe it, but it looks increasingly as if the fat-cat will win.
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As he proceeded, both Challenger and Summerlee looked increasingly astonished.
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And Audrey, who looks increasingly like a Cabbage Patch doll, changed her mind about marrying Fred.
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But already the whole scheme was looking increasingly doubtful.
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For unexpected professional and family reasons this looks increasingly unlikely.
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So it is not surprising that the property sector is increasingly looking at opportunities on the Internet.
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And it is looking increasingly as if the date will be as much Mr Mandela's own decision as the government's.
seem
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We must not disable or marginalise them in a society that increasingly seems interested only in the successful.
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But his personal life seemed increasingly to meander and lose point.
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In his later years Howard seems increasingly to have retired from public life.
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From political correctness to the flagging tenure system, the right of unadulterated academic lip flapping seems increasingly embattled.
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Consequently, this fixation on the earliest, nurturing and nutritive superego-precursor seems increasingly to express itself in the form of drug-addiction.
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It will continue to make decisions whose predictable outcomes make the prospect for improvement seem increasingly remote.
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In parliamentary systems, too, Prime Ministers seem increasingly active in managing their media relations.
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The main Conservative claim to national support, therefore, namely that they had worked an economic miracle, seemed increasingly shallow.
use
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It is being increasingly used to detect weakly magnetized features such as postholes, and more deeply buried sites.
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From the eleventh century onwards Persian was increasingly used for books on popular science.
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This is because popular photography is increasingly used as social-historical evidence.
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They accumulate the trust and dependence of lawmakers, who increasingly use lobbyists to do research on technical bills.
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The analogy of war and invasion is increasingly used to make sense of events.
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The D trumpet has been increasingly used by modern composers, notably Britten.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Increasingly , humans and animals are in competition for the same land.
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Increasingly , people are relying on interactive media for a variety of services.
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As she watched him, Jody felt increasingly sure that she had made the right choice.
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As the years passed, Celia became increasingly lonely and withdrawn.
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It is getting increasingly difficult for the US to remain competitive in consumer products.
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The rebel group's actions have become increasingly violent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As resources become increasingly scarce, choices have to be made and priorities set.
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As the trial progressed, and the evidence mounted up, it became increasingly difficult to take the plea seriously.
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From the 1950s onward, these goals became increasingly entangled.
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His primary insight being anatomical, Kuypers was concerned with increasingly powerful ways of tracing fibre connections.
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Modern economies are increasingly interdependent; policy-relevant research therefore requires large-scale, carefully targeted initiatives.
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The campaign was snowballing and life was getting increasingly hectic.
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The increase in manufacturing unit wage costs is at its lowest level since 1989 and is increasingly in line with Britain's main competitors.