adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
march
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For more than a century factory acts and ever shorter working hours marked the onward march of industrial progress.
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If the onward march of globalisation can not be halted, the case for a more effective regional policy has become unassailable.
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Practical gardening Organic gardening continues its onward march through our bookcases.
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It's as if he has been holding up the onward march of history, and history can not wait.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the onward march of scientific progress
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tickets for onward travel
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the time, GeoRef covered the period from 1969 onward , and GeoArchive from 1974 onward.
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From the age of six onward , Vologsky had been able to apply almost total recall to figures of any sort.
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Given his rate of drift, within ten or fifteen minutes the home-base would pass onward beneath him.
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Her thoughts were so jumbled that they could only drive her onward .
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His life has a sense of purposive onward movement.
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The parquet is responsible for the onward transmission of the documents via central government agencies.
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There was great discussion about the onward route.