adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
approach
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Crumley starts by analysing the piecemeal approach to development and lack of adequate environmental control in the Cairngorms.
fashion
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The changes in the state sector before the 1980s have occurred in a relatively piecemeal fashion .
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To his disappointments it developed in a piecemeal fashion .
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The charges against Sutyagin can, therefore, be established only in piecemeal fashion .
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It is only during this century that statutory services have been developed and they came in a very piecemeal fashion .
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They may conceive of it in piecemeal fashion , recognising particular boundaries as and when it is unavoidably necessary to do so.
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The process of drainage and enclosure was probably occurring in a piecemeal fashion all through the late Saxon period.
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The cuckoo's adaptations were simply too perfect to have evolved bit by bit, in piecemeal fashion .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Improvements have been largely piecemeal , without adequate government support.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both were piecemeal efforts, too far from the city centre, whose shops and businesses drive the local economy.
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Milosevic has granted piecemeal concessions while sowing the kind of confusion that he has used in the past to stymie opponents.
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Nor did they see any future in piecemeal political reform of the autocracy.
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She was struggling to save a patchwork system of segregated education by piecemeal projects.
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The proposals are intended as a package and not for piecemeal negotiation.
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The use of resources was a piecemeal affair.
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To his disappointments it developed in a piecemeal fashion.
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Why is it fair to pass piecemeal reforms for powerful industries?