adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a quick/rapid calculation
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He did a rapid calculation.
a rapid expansion
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During the 1990s, there was a rapid expansion in student numbers.
a rapid rate
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The plant’s ability to thrive in these conditions is partly due to its rapid rate of growth.
in quick/rapid/close succession (= quickly one after the other )
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He fired two shots in quick succession.
rapid spread
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the rapid spread of cholera in Latin America
rapid transit system
rapid transit
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rapid transit networks
rapid
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The investigation is making rapid progress.
rapid
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From the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s there was very rapid growth.
rapid (= happening quickly )
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Recently there has been a rapid increase in fish farming.
rapid (= fast )
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We noticed a rapid decline in his health.
rapid
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Symptoms may include the rapid onset of nausea and vomiting.
rapid
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The post-war years saw a rapid rise in prosperity.
rapid/fast
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Symptoms include a rapid pulse and dry skin.
rapid/fast
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The rapid pace of change creates uncertainty.
rapid/swift
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Her rapid rise to the top is well deserved.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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It is often more energy-intensive with a more rapid deterioration than low-tech buildings!
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Their victory was even more rapid than that of the Arabs ten centuries later.
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Other projects made more rapid progress that new year.
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Budgets are lower, yet the production pace is more rapid .
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Industrialization in rural areas has increased, and has been more rapid than in metropolitan areas.
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As you get closer the beeping will get more rapid .
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In southern Britain, the process is more rapid .
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The crucial datum is this: the rate of gypsy-moth spread is now much more rapid than before.
most
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Change, in industry, commerce, and agriculture, was most evident and most rapid in the periphery.
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Quantitative assessments arc difficult to make, but the most rapid period of growth was probably from about I 580 to 1650.
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The regions with the most rapid growth rates were two of the more rural, East Anglia and the South West.
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By the beginning of 1947 the United States had almost completed tile most rapid demobilization in the history of the world.
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Bearpark expects the most rapid growth to come from services and systems integration, particularly in the open systems arena.
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But this same development model has recently produced the largest and most rapid reduction of poverty in history.
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Growth was most rapid in percentage terms around 1831 when it reached 1.55 percent per year and in absolute terms around 1870.
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Speech is the most rapid form of human communication - faster than both handwriting and the output from a trained typist.
so
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Not so rapid are the statistical analyses.
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In fact so rapid , I am astonished anyone should have noticed it.
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This contrasts with societies in which technological advance is so rapid that old people feel deskilled.
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When the grand collapse starts, it is so violent and so rapid that nothing can halt it.
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The glissando is so rapid that the repetitions of certain notes in it are not heard.
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So sad to see their decline - their so rapid decline - in other schools, elsewhere.
very
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The three sounds combine and blend, and the whole process is very rapid .
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Any abortive treatment must have a very rapid action because of the pain crescendo characteristic of these headaches.
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This allows for very rapid reproduction.
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And we are also experiencing mortality. in some areas very rapid mortality.
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They do not seem to have noticed that many predominantly market economies suffer from inflation, and often very rapid inflation.
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From the mid 1970's to the mid 1980's there was very rapid growth.
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Going farther back, into post-glacial times, we find evidence that erosion and deposition were sometimes very rapid indeed.
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This creates a thin surface layer with relatively low thermal heat capacity which allows very rapid summer heating even at subpolar latitudes.
■ NOUN
change
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Well, not too radical actually, since trades unionists are not noted for their enthusiasm for rapid change .
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Both the computer and financial services industries were undergoing rapid change .
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Computers for history teaching Computer technology is experiencing rapid change .
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They come into existence after relatively brief periods of rapid change in a small sub-population of a pre-existing species.
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In an area with such rapid changes in temperature as to erode hard rock into sand, soft shells would not have survived.
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Educators know that kindergarten is a stage of rapid change and development.
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Whatever the fortunes of the major political parties, it is likely that managers will be coping with rapid change .
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Technology is forcing rapid changes in the phone-book industry too.
decline
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This results, even in steady state, in a rapid decline in serum concentrations.
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Other factors besides family planning account for such rapid declines .
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That's quite a rapid decline .
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Then competition with Mission Valley shopping centers and suburban residential growth prompted a rapid decline .
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Her husband was told to expect that she would have a fairly rapid decline and would probably die within eighteen months.
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Through their research the class know that no railway will mean rapid decline .
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Then they began their mysterious and rapid decline .
deployment
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The army will expand from four to six the number of infantry battalions ready for rapid deployment .
development
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The other major trend that is taking place is the rapid development of colour publishing.
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The brothers moved quickly to grasp these rapid developments and establish their journalistic voice.
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Where fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals with high added value can be produced by biotechnology there will be rapid developments .
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The problem is not a function of demographics but of rapid development coupled with a lagging education system.
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But the issue was fascinating because of other things, heralding the rapid development of technology in the next century.
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In Phoenix the community development block grant was implemented within this context of rapid development.
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The eighteenth century was not an age of rapid development in military techniques.
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This is an area of rapid development with little or no environmental considerations.
expansion
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Modern art is directed at a public largely untutored in the fine arts amidst a rapid expansion of the means of communication.
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The rapid expansion of enrolments, teacher numbers and the volume of materials and support services meant that budgets grew very rapidly.
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Inevitably with the rapid expansion of the past few years the University is experiencing difficulties in providing sufficient academic as well as residential accommodation.
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Institutions took the hint, and began their current binge of rapid expansion .
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Its rapid expansion is causing severe strains on its current buildings on Corstorphine Hill.
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Since 1979, the rapid expansion of union education in Britain has gone into reverse.
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Heclo points to the rapid expansion of the number of groups and their representatives in Washington in the 1970s.
eye
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If rapid eye movements accompany dreaming, does it mean that our eyes are following the action of the dreams?
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The sleeper is awakened when rapid eye movements indicate that dreaming is taking place.
fire
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The rapid fire of questions was deliberate, she knew, designed to scare her into blurting out the truth.
growth
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Despite the rapid growth of recent years, poverty is proving stubbornly hard to eradicate.
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The recession, inflation, and high food costs caused rapid growth in the number of food co-ops.
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The inflation rate was fuelled by a relatively rapid growth rate which in 1989 reached 5.4 percent.
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Employment of local government inspectors is concentrated in cities and in suburban areas undergoing rapid growth .
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All sorts of companies seem to be capable of rapid growth .
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Unfortunately they are seldom present in small quantities for long, as they soon cover the bottom from their rapid growth .
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Bearpark expects the most rapid growth to come from services and systems integration, particularly in the open systems arena.
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It forces real interest rates into the stratosphere and makes rapid growth extremely difficult.
improvement
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With the exception of western humanitarian aid, none of their hopes of an rapid improvement in the economy was fulfilled.
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She seemed to have made a rapid improvement in health since I last saw her.
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Its workforce needs rapid improvement to suit, its management levels and vision upgrading.
increase
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There was a rapid increase in the output of journals and books and in the range of and demand for newspapers.
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However, the rapid increase in the number of science policy-making organs does not necessarily imply efficiency.
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But by around 1020, the quality of Norman coins declined markedly as a concomitant to the rapid increase in quantity.
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The report also notes a rapid increase in the number of single-parent households.
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Younger age groups are experiencing a rapid increase in the proportion of minorities among their ranks.
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The rapid increase in the number and diversity of states has had long-term consequences for global politics.
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With the rapid increase in biotechnological research, stricter controls with powers of enforcement may well prove necessary in Britain.
movement
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He sat where medical students usually sat, hands clasped before him, watching the rapid movement of the green-robed figures below.
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It is only rapid movements up that become uncontrollable.
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For hard-liners, on both sides, the rapid movement toward a new world structure was alarming.
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Watching rapid movements can aggravate giddiness.
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The first rabbit stopped in a sunny patch and scratched his ear with rapid movements of his hind-leg.
pace
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Gripping the sides of the sidecar, he urged Yanto to increase the already rapid pace .
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C.-Only eight games into the season and the Raiders are on a rapid pace to being written off.
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The very rapid pace of change in the computer market does mean that second-hand computers can be excellent value.
population
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Reckless economic development and rapid population growth threaten the world's fragile environment.
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Life in Cairo often manages to work even under the oppressive condi-tions of poverty and rapid population growth.
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Where there is a high population density and a rapid population turnover, the church must achieve visibility.
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But with rapid population growth, all the negative effects of poverty and ill-conceived government policies are magnified.
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Countries with slower population growth saw their average percapita incomes grow 2.5 percent more than those with more rapid population growth.
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The effects of rapid population growth are everywhere.
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Congestion and land hunger were particularly acute in Lewis, because of the rapid population increase.
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Elsewhere, the effects of rapid population growth are far more severe.
progress
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Other projects made more rapid progress that new year.
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The doctors were surprised at his rapid progress .
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Leaning rather than pulling is a recurrent theme in windsurfing which, once mastered, leads to rapid progress .
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Mr Holmes a Court is thought to have taken advantage of the share's rapid progress , selling his 2 percent stake.
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But if rapid progress in combating poverty was possible in Britain over the past 100 years, then it is possible elsewhere.
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After one treatment the fish has made rapid progress and is now able to swim upright.
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Teachers using Fast Forward find the material is already under control and organized ideally to ensure rapid progress .
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Modern fax technology has made rapid progress .
rate
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Communication by electronic means is growing at a rapid rate throughout industry and government organisations.
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Do we carry on burning fossil fuels at rapid rates ?
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Shaw's brand Own label development continued at a rapid rate .
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Incidentally, it is a good idea to take photographs where possible as sites are still disappearing at a rapid rate .
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Hopefully increased competition will stimulate a more rapid rate of innovation.
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Sometimes in history there is a rapid rate of change.
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We may be undergoing a rapid rate of change in our knowledge base now, and that may be hard to assimilate.
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Given the School's rapid rate of growth, more part-time tutors are needed across the full range of management activities.
reaction
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The latest addition is International Blue Shield, aiming to provide rapid reaction teams when an unexpected threat emerges.
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Conditions like these would likely trigger a rapid reaction .
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The system efficiently delivered the rapid reaction force it was designed to produce.
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Andrei Krestyaninov, a commander of an elite rapid reaction force leading the attack, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
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Developed countries speak of rapid reaction forces as the future of their military strategies.
response
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Get rapid responses to queries people raise in their staff meetings.
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That kind of rapid response will not be available on the space station, because the shuttle will be docked.
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This ideally matches the requirements of the servos and ensures a smooth and rapid response .
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D.. Augment rapid response capabilities for vaccine delivery and expand evaluation of vaccine efficacy and the cost effectiveness of vaccination programs.
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The gentle and yet rapid response that one achieves has to be experienced to be understood.
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Duty and intake systems to detect incipient problems early and to provide a rapid response . 3.
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Coun Hughes urged Mr Threlfall to consider a rapid response unit to deal with emergencies.
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This allows a rapid response to any divergences from expectations and for counter action to be agreed.
rise
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If there is surprise among outsiders at his rapid rise , within the bank it is seen as totally predictable.
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Not even cool weather can stop the rapid rise of red numbers, or so it seems.
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Her rapid rise to the top is well deserved and she does not suffer from having political labels stuck on her.
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He had speculated, with good reason, on the rapid rise of the shares.
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The iceberg is the result of a rapid rise in vehicle theft by young persons which goes back some time.
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Underscoring the rapid rise of the group, Internet stocks are not yet measured by the Dow Jones industry groups.
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This inpart reflects the recent very rapid rise in interest-bearing sterling deposits, due to high real interest rates.
spread
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The rapid spread of small arms and light weapons facilitate the recruitment of child soldiers.
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The result has been a rapid spread of unsightly buildings across the countryside.
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All three factors are thought to have played a part in the rapid spread of the disease.
succession
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That was the first wonderful release, others were to follow in rapid succession .
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There, during an eight-year period in the late 1970s and early 1980s, large trees began dying in rapid succession .
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Following him, there was a rapid succession of occupants.
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When a user browses the Web, objects are retrieved in rapid succession from often widely dispersed servers.
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Increasingly, the tendency is to work for a large number of companies in rapid succession .
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I stood fearfully against a board as in rapid succession the knives flashed through the air and encircled my body.
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Female red-legged partridges and Temminck's stints produce two clutches in very rapid succession .
transit
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He was the chief architect in charge of the then-burgeoning rapid transit system - and it turns out he was also a painter.
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These findings are consistent with decreased transit in the proximal and rapid transit through the sigmoid colon in patients with active colitis.
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Historians have tended to overlook the possibilities of more rapid transit where the cargo concerned was profitable enough to merit it.
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At least 150 miles of new rapid transit and underground railways are envisaged in the next 20 to 30 years.
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Like some other rapid transit systems, this plan utilises only former and existing railway routes.
turnover
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Myddle parish saw nothing like the same rapid turnover of personnel.
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A population of mice may yield up to six times its weight because of rapid turnover and high metabolism.
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The effect of adversary politics in Britain is intensified by the rapid turnover of government personnel.
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Those lymphocytes responsible for recall responses have a more rapid turnover , implying that long-lived memory is not maintained by long-lived T-lymphocytes.
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They tend to rely on a rapid turnover of stock, to keep down inventory levels.
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In tne fast food business, every second counts and a rapid turnover of customers is essential to maximise profit margins.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at a good/rapid/fast etc clip
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He was walking along at a good clip , his eyes idly panning the facades of the brownstone houses.
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Up ahead, a thoroughfare Traffic was going across the intersection at a good clip in both directions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Rapid learning: Learn to speak a new language in 12 weeks!
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a rapid increase in the population
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Adolescence is a period of great and rapid change.
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She made a rapid recovery after her operation.
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The college offers a rapid programme of training for librarians.
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Will cast a rapid glance at the clock.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After one treatment the fish has made rapid progress and is now able to swim upright.
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But this same development model has recently produced the largest and most rapid reduction of poverty in history.
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For hard-liners, on both sides, the rapid movement toward a new world structure was alarming.
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Investments in public transport in these areas have concentrated on expensive high technology systems of rapid rail transit.
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That was the first wonderful release, others were to follow in rapid succession.
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The rapid force of airbag inflation saves adult lives.