I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
jet lag
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I’m suffering from jet lag but I’ll feel better after a good night’s sleep.
old lag
suffering from jet lag
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I’m suffering from jet lag but I’ll feel better after a good night’s sleep.
time lag
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There is generally a two-year time lag in the information being made available.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
behind
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This was because according to Morgan kin terms lag behind .
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The nation overall made more progress during the 1990s than did large cities, which lagged behind in almost every measure.
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Therapeutics may lag behind , possibly for decades, so I will abstain from discussing these aspects here.
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Some sectors, moreover, lagged behind completely, by force of circumstances or on account of reluctance to abandon traditional ways.
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Commercial people lagged behind , but they were ahead of the textile workers, the first working-class group to show strong limitation.
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Her good readers are voracious and read their weight in books every week, while the slow readers lag behind .
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In every area of skills training Britain lags behind .
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But in other ways the colony lagged behind , especially when government expenditure was at stake.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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This year, private fund-raising for the museum has lagged.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Agriculture was lagging behind the general prosperity levels.
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At the same time in October, 56. 4 percent of companies beat estimates while just 32. 2 percent lagged.
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Cyclical, industrial stocks lagged badly amid disappointing earnings and worries about flagging economic growth.
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In the total absence of black dancers, Covent Garden lags behind other ballet companies in the West.
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Nails was ahead but Hoomey was lagging.
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Some sectors, moreover, lagged behind completely, by force of circumstances or on account of reluctance to abandon traditional ways.
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Therapeutics may lag behind, possibly for decades, so I will abstain from discussing these aspects here.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
time
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But in a way that time lag , though it could be frustrating, was also a blessing in disguise.
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As Chapter 4 noted, the average time lag between daily use and first contact with an agency was 2.6 years.
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But there will inevitably be time lags and imprecision in the process.
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No time lag should come between demand and supply.
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The time lag in the nocturnal response is quite marked - averages point nine plus of a second greater.
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That there was a time lag heartened me.
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It is difficult to make a case that the time lag in getting innovations to the market-place has decreased in recent years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another lag , for example, is that between changes in instruments and the achievement of the employment and prices objectives.
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But for a lag in publication caused by the war, his volume would have missed the story of the camps.
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But there will inevitably be time lags and imprecision in the process.
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No time lag should come between demand and supply.
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The jet lag induces a mild form of hallucination.
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With a variable lag the Fed would have to know the lag for each specific case in which it is considering policy.