adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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less
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Bath, beautiful as ever, is less prosperous than it was.
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The middle classes, who used to be the backbone of the regime, are becoming less prosperous .
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Its only hope of meeting targets was to purchase the right to pollute from less prosperous nations.
more
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That alone will provide the resources that are essential if we are to build a steadily more prosperous society.
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To recover, psychologically, it was not enough to become more prosperous than ever.
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The North-East is much more prosperous than ten years ago.
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Migration, for example, may be an enforced personal tragedy following persecution or a voluntary choice for a more prosperous life.
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Perhaps she does not realise that that is a characteristic of people becoming more prosperous .
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Money you could have used to make your future, and that of all your employees, more secure and more prosperous .
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Before the war it was reserved for Budapest's more prosperous citizens.
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Now that we are a little more prosperous , the habit of bringing a bottle seems to have dropped off.
most
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I remind the Minister that Gateshead is far from being one of Britain's most prosperous towns.
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They've become one of the world's most prosperous nations by engineering their flood-risks to an acceptably low level.
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The company has also chosen the most prosperous and diversified of all the Windward Islands.
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Du sseldorf, by contrast, is one of the most prosperous cities in the country's western zone.
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In the region's most prosperous countries, it is doubling every four to six months.
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What had once been the greatest and most prosperous of Elf realms had effectively ceased to be.
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Firstly, the Angevin government in Aquitaine commanded the support of the most prosperous and populated towns.
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His most prosperous theme is that the frustration is damaging his health.
relatively
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All study practices were in relatively prosperous areas: none was in receipt of a deprivation allowance.
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Other surveys, including those carried out in relatively prosperous areas such as Bristol made similar estimates.
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For a relatively prosperous family, spending on cooking probably drops to less than 5 percent of the annual income.
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Despite the economic problems and some unrelated political problems of the 1960s, the country remained a relatively prosperous one.
■ NOUN
area
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Similarly, in the North there are prosperous areas within otherwise depressed regions.
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Other surveys, including those carried out in relatively prosperous areas such as Bristol made similar estimates.
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Regional policies designed to promote employment sought to maintain population levels in the less prosperous areas by curbing voluntary out-migration.
country
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In the region's most prosperous countries , it is doubling every four to six months.
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It's a medium-sized, prosperous country town.
future
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Above all, I want to help my farmer constituents towards a prosperous future .
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Your Board and employees at all levels send you our very best wishes for a prosperous future with Palatine.
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Only then will my family-and my country-have any chance of a peaceful and prosperous future .
town
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I remind the Minister that Gateshead is far from being one of Britain's most prosperous towns .
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Male speaker It's precisely prosperous towns like Wallingford which are suffering from the recession.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a prosperous American businessman
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After the war, Germany became one of Europe's most prosperous countries.
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Deng was the son of a prosperous landowner.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although these were prosperous years, disposable income of individuals increased by only about 2 I percent.
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Corinth's peculiar position created two prosperous harbours, Lechaion in the west- and Kenchreai in the east.
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His father was a prosperous woollen-draper and former mayor of Maidstone.
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I am proud to report that the condition of the country as a whole is prosperous .
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In the region's most prosperous countries, it is doubling every four to six months.
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It is the middle class that can truly make a nation prosperous and strong.
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Merry Christmas and a prosperous and healthy New Year to you all.
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The impoverished crossed in steerage for fifty dollars; the prosperous strolled first-class decks and drank champagne at captains' tables.