verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attempt
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From this view any attempt to quantify or verify the meanings is misleading.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In the UK, the operation will not be performed until the risks are better understood and quantified.
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It's difficult to quantify how long it will take to finish the project.
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It is impossible to quantify what an active cultural life does for a city.
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Just quantifying your financial goals will make you feel more in control of your future.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But can the numbers and purchasing power of those following the Yuppy life-style be quantified?
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Even so, Sir Matthew admitted that the wider implications of the weak housing market on the industry were hard to quantify .
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Like study of the forest, it may take a generation to quantify the effect on fish stock.
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Similarly, insects and land snail shells are identified, sorted and quantified in the same way as animal and plant remains.
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The incidence of elder abuse is hard to quantify .
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The research should help quantify the differences between older and younger drivers.
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Their objective was to develop a model which quantified the permeability of rock as drilling proceeded.
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This, the Riemann curvature tensor, quantifies space-time curvature.