adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
period
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During the intervening period , prices had tripled.
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But in the intervening period their triumph seemed beyond doubt or challenge.
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Contracts are typically for a three- or five-year term and can prove inflexible in the intervening period .
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Clearly, the intervening period since the Minister's statement of August 1976 had led to some clearer thinking.
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For a considerable part of the intervening period there was recurrent civil strife between magnate and dynastic factions.
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It is scarcely found in the intervening period , but its presence here is no accident.
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In the intervening period the decision of the Comintern Congress had become public.
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I spent most of the intervening period in the National Portrait Gallery.
variable
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In effect, teachers become intervening variables in their own experiments.
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I regard organizational climate as an intervening variable which affects the results of the operations of the organization.
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Let us therefore assume that nervous disorders act as an intervening variable .
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The techniques themselves are identical whether the variable being controlled is a prior or an intervening variable in the relationship being investigated.
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If it disappears when an intervening variable is controlled, the mechanism linking the two variables has been interpreted.
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In multivariate procedures the controls are deployed as potential intervening variables .
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If we want to argue that the causal mechanism is fairly direct, we have to control for similar intervening variables .
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But in their professional role, teachers are, of course, in charge: they are not intervening variables but intervening agents.
years
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But some underlying patterning remains, despite the intervening years and the subtle shifts in values and beliefs.
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They'd answer the outside world by giving their own authorised version of the intervening years .
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Some time, then, during the intervening years , he had been granted a barony.
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In the decline the church had experienced in the intervening years , fewer catholic school children had opted out.
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There is literally nothing of an official nature which can serve as a guide to possible fluctuations in the intervening years .
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Agricultural surpluses have become commonplace in the intervening years and this is preventing increased production from upping incomes.
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It is interesting to speculate on the possible reasons for his total obscurity during the intervening years of the Restoration.
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There's been no increase in the intervening years .