adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
relatively cheap
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The equipment is relatively cheap and simple to use.
relatively painless
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The interview was relatively painless.
relatively speaking
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Relatively speaking, property there is still cheap.
relatively/fairly/quite simple
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The rules are quite simple.
relatively/quite/fairly straightforward
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Installing the program is relatively straightforward.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cheap
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However, the very fact that they are mass-produced and relatively cheap means that they are too frequently seen.
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So is obtaining a relatively cheap military technology for its modernization efforts, and diversifying its trading partners.
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Local newspapers are widely read and relatively cheap to advertise in.
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We're talking relatively cheap mega-acres of land and the use of mass-production techniques.
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Microlights have at last achieved what they set out to be: a largely reliable and relatively cheap way to fly.
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It's relatively cheap and currently much is wasted by flare-off at extraction.
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Due to its small size and high fecundity it is relatively cheap to breed, buy and maintain.
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As yet the land is still relatively cheap .
easy
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Rocky terrain with relatively easy access is the shore to look for.
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Such networks are relatively easy to construct because they require fewer nodes and interconnects than other networks.
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It is, however, relatively easy to create conditions under which people will teach themselves.
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Within this range, it is relatively easy to achieve off-line training, convergence, and modification.
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The good news is that technical solutions are at hand, and the incentives to implement them are relatively easy to devise.
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Termites are often relatively easy to spot, especially in the early stages.
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After that, withdrawal from the drug is relatively easy .
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Okra is relatively easy to grow given sufficient space.
free
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If there is a relatively free choice of hotel site you go on looking until you find the ideal spot.
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Over the years, buffalo has proven relatively free from disease, therefore antibiotics are rarely required.
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Now, it seems, the Likud is back, with a relatively free hand on what to do next.
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Otherwise, clinically it appears to be relatively free from side effects.
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The special conditions at Westminster are one part of the explanation of the relatively free rein given to counter-insurgency and covert activity.
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After this stage, the young men, who are the warriors parexcellence, are relatively free of obligation until mature.
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From the ashes there arose, by public subscription, a new Daily Citizen, responsible and relatively free .
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The land itself is relatively free from trees, low, flat and well beneath sea level.
high
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Conclusions - Children classified as unoccupied are almost certainly living in poverty as well as experiencing relatively high risks of mortality.
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Some Democrats say it would require a relatively high tax rate near 20 percent to produce sufficient revenue.
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The real mortgage rate is currently a relatively high 7 percent, implying prices 10.5 percent higher than under rationing.
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In general, novels of this type are well researched and exhibit a relatively high quality of writing.
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The shirt-maker gave up her job, and they both lived on the pattern-maker's relatively high pay.
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I have relatively high stakes in conformity - I happen to have done fairly well out of it.
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An extreme event was taken to be any event in a geophysical system displaying relatively high variance from the mean.
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Nitrogen mustards in suitable doses damage only cells and tissues which normally exhibit relatively high rates of proliferation and growth.
inexpensive
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Corn, sunflower and grapeseed oils are all for general cooking and are relatively inexpensive .
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Fortunately, it is possible to achieve acceptable levels of SO2 by four Simple and relatively inexpensive measures.
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These are relatively inexpensive and can help to restore order to superficial chaos.
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Even relatively inexpensive hand-held calculators solve most compound interest and present-value problems quickly and easily.
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Your hotel offers a relatively inexpensive fixed price menu if you wish to take advantage of this.
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With the cost of news relatively inexpensive , there is more news being presented on television now than ever before.
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And they are still on relatively inexpensive terms.
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On the Rebound Since caffeine is relatively inexpensive and widely available, the dose escalation induced by tolerance is seldom burdensome.
large
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At this time of the year, the goats can forage fairly freely and will cover relatively large areas.
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The relatively larger supply of manufactures makes their relative price lower in the larger country.
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Some parts like transformers may be relatively large or heavy or might have unusual terminals or mounting requirements. 2.
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The tentacle pores are relatively large armed with one rounded tentacle scale.
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Headache does not occur until an intracranial mass is relatively large .
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It will be seen on the example artwork that there are several relatively large areas of copper.
late
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Though it did not appear until relatively late in his life, Locke had been working on the Essay since about 1660.
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Unlike venereal disease, leprosy came to Western attention relatively late .
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These reflect a relatively late period of modest success for the town.
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Garner, 50, came to the subject relatively late in life.
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Considerable solution compaction between grains indicates that cementation did not take place until relatively late in the diagenetic history of the sediment.
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Sir Monty Finniston entered the industrial arena relatively late in life.
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The location of these buildings and the limited dating evidence strongly suggests that all three are relatively late in the morphological sequence.
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Their relatively late arrival in the quarter coupled with their costs and the narrow margins on the surprise Model 20 impacted earnings.
little
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Leasing schemes will allow large-scale investments to be financed at relatively little cost to the public sector borrowing requirement.
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As a result, import prices rise relatively little even when the dollar plunges.
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Oxygen had relatively little effect even on activated lymphocytes, which actually moved faster without air.
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Because black mom-and-pop stores ordered and sold relatively little inventory at a given time, they were low priority.
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This expansion is funded by governments who have relatively little capital.
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Several changes in the control unit were made in the 1960s but the technology remained expensive and had relatively little diffusion.
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Why is it that presidents come and go and yet accomplish so relatively little ?
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One problem with setting the neck so deep into the body is that relatively little space is left for pickup separation.
long
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Ear infections are most likely to occur in breeds with relatively long and heavy ears, such as spaniels.
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Prussia, like Britain, had a relatively long period of effective, legitimate government before the introduction of democratic institutions.
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Tumours contain a relatively high water content and therefore have a relatively long T1 and T2 compared with normal soft tissue.
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Impact of investment decisions on science and technology takes a relatively long time to show up.
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The majority had therefore experienced secure employment for relatively long periods of time.
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Neural networks used for robotics and control applications have been around for a relatively long time.
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Barat et Haimet is one of the robber's tales, relatively long and preserved in four large manuscript collections of fabliaux.
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She explained that the relatively long gaps between outbreaks immediately after 1800 were because of logging operations.
low
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Some warehouses have one crane in each aisle whilst others with relatively low rates of throughput depend upon crane transfer mechanisms.
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The only explanation for this relatively low price is that West must have signed a large number of photographs in her day.
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Because of the relatively low cost of such boards, the faulty one would just be dumped.
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I had wanted to cross a relatively low pass at the western end of the range.
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They have a relatively low shrinkage when they are dry.
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But because of relatively low efficiency, it was superseded by the internal combustion engine at the beginning of the century.
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In the summer of 1986, the legacy of Westland and local-government losses led to a relatively low point for the government.
minor
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It would be a relatively minor piece of work and could avoid accidents and even save lives.
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Much of the controversy centers on two relatively minor farm programs: peanuts and sugar.
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May I take issue with one relatively minor but important point?
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Thus far, only two relatively minor planks of the 10-point House-initiated legislative agenda have become law.
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Although the majority of sporting injuries are relatively minor , a substantial number are more serious.
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Most of the charges in both jurisdictions were relatively minor .
modest
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However, the falls were relatively modest and, in the case of the Crown Court at least, were soon reversed.
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Even a relatively modest addition to the liberal framework, universal health coverage, remains elusive.
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But the dividend income is relatively modest , and coming from abroad they are not a tax-efficient source of income.
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In 1996, Pryce spent a relatively modest $ 384, 780, and raised about $ 522, 000.
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No such joy for Sion Mills and Donemana - both teams lost in spite of being asked to chase relatively modest totals.
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Shop sales grew again in May, but the upturn was relatively modest .
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Since employment growth was relatively modest , the mass of means of production per worker more than doubled over the period.
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He goes on to support this with an appeal to the testator's intention, but it is a relatively modest one.
narrow
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Moreover, the range of earnings within agriculture is relatively narrow .
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In contrast, governments that put steering and rowing within the same organization limit themselves to relatively narrow strategies.
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The final variant on provision for cyclists occurs in areas where streets are relatively narrow and pass predominantly through housing districts.
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Hence, many projects benefit a relatively narrow group of people and impose costs on all taxpayers.
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We are best served by being very good in a relatively narrow field.
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Effective training is best delivered within a relatively narrow time frame.
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Far from being randomly distributed, nearly all seismic activity is concentrated in relatively narrow zones.
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So far, debate has been left to a relatively narrow group of specialists.
new
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Intensive indoor rearing of livestock is relatively new and people are only just beginning to realise what it means for the animals.
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This was a relatively new point of view.
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The Golden Nugget U. This relatively new species shows just how colourful the hypostomus family can be.
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The sweeter, more nutritious, relatively new varieties of ruby grapefruit made for fine eating at home.
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Video is a relatively new medium for in-house communications and is used by some companies to great effect.
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But the relatively new drug nelfinavir may pose a challenge.
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Yet this emphasis is relatively new .
painless
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The sores are usually relatively painless , and this procedure, like the urethral investigation, need give no cause for alarm.
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To be honest, it was relatively painless .
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Although a few had had quick and relatively painless births, many had found it a very painful experience.
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Dinner itself was a relatively painless affair.
poor
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And some airlines are more affected by flying short hops and in areas where weather is relatively poor .
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The Office of Government Commerce was set up last April to draw a line under this relatively poor performance.
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On their own they are relatively poor cleaning agents.
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Before 800AD, bones dug up in the Ohio valley are relatively poor in the heavier form of carbon.
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But for many deaf children this route to reading is restricted because their knowledge of speech sounds is relatively poor .
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Its headquarters are in a small town in north-west Bosnia, a relatively poor region.
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Reggie Miller scored 20 points, but it was a relatively poor outing for him considering his history against the Hornets.
rare
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Much of this ambiguity arises through relatively rare usages of the words.
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Although television and newspaper reports about malformed children abound, it is reassuring to appreciate that abnormalities are relatively rare .
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Fortunately, full-blown flu epidemics are relatively rare .
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But, given that penguins are relatively rare birds, that turned out to be prohibitively expensive.
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Others find things are worse but this is relatively rare .
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Pech-Merle also contains some of the relatively rare engravings of human female forms.
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Nevertheless, the expulsion of a bishop was a relatively rare phenomenon.
recent
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The concept of clients' involvement and taking their views into account in service provision is still relatively recent .
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That has been so, at least, until relatively recent times.
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The Open Directory is a relatively recent project, that's compiled by about 25,000 volumes.
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This experiment is still relatively recent , and must therefore, be judged with caution.
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The concept of aggression, however, is of relatively recent origin.
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Indeed, the notion that all students should engage in serious academic work and learn it deeply is a relatively recent phenomenon.
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Karpov played a relatively recent refinement of white's play on the seventh move.
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In any event it seems likely that language is a relatively recent development in the human species.
safe
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Security advisers are confident the prince will be relatively safe from hostile forces.
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In spite of the adverse effects, the benzodiazepines are relatively safe drugs.
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Monasteries and nunneries were relatively safe from attack until the Dissolution and would have no need for elaborate and impractical tunnels.
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We then take him on to a relatively safe highway.
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A small monetary union here would be relatively safe , under almost any conceivable scenario.
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Women gained access to relatively safe abortion, and thus gained control over their own fertility.
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Mr Stringer now appears relatively safe , but he could have been the victim of his own success.
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Where parking is off-street the streets seem relatively safe , but where it is not there are obvious dangers.
short
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Schools Specialised buildings for the education of children have a relatively short history in Britain.
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Organisms such as these are useful in the lab because of their simplicity and relatively short growth periods.
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Far more hoards have survived from both these relatively short periods than from the immediately preceding or succeeding periods.
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In a relatively short season of television, Ellen demonstrated what in real life often takes a lifetime.
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Uneven allocation will thus lead to some subjects having relatively short notation at the expense of others with relatively long notation.
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While early constitutions tended to be relatively short and general, many recent constitutions are quite detailed.
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On the whole, though, relatively short sentences offer the advantage of helping you to keep your writing clear and understandable.
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Meadows' career in acting would prove relatively short , however.
simple
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Recruitment and selection is therefore a series of logical and relatively simple steps.
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This scheme often works because users tend to choose relatively simple or familiar words as passwords.
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However, this relatively simple and straight forward view has, for a variety of reasons, been rejected by many sociologists.
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Couples with no need to itemize deductions can use the 1040A, another relatively simple form.
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The Qizilchoqa graves are relatively simple in their construction.
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It is a relatively simple matter to translate the structural possibilities of this model into ideal types of heroic action.
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The algorithms required for most data processing are relatively simple .
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Although we are all aware of relatively simple security measures such as password controls, doing a thorough job requires experience and expertise.
small
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However they caution that the relatively small numbers of students in both studies makes it difficult to draw any firm generalisable conclusions.
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That is, what can be realistically added is relatively small , in the range of ten or fifteen percent.
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There are few more cost-effective ways to invest relatively small sums of money than reinstating the support funding for tourism.
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Most of us really want to preserve a relatively small amount of data.
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Evaporation is a relatively small loss in this country and may be taken as 0.05 inches per day.
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A number of reports about relatively small incidents could add up to a pattern of abuse that called for action.
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The world's relatively small wealthy population is probably getting too large for it.
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We have used glass block, and it was expensive to have even a relatively small window made.
stable
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However, the prices of rugs from each individual weaving group remain relatively stable in relation to those of others.
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It is to be deceived by a relatively stable evolutionary strategy, to mistake the means for the end.
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The Cartier market has previously been relatively stable at auction.
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The existence of rules that ensure that complex and relatively stable structures emerge in the universe suggests an intelligent rule-giver.
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Thus the relatively stable East Midlands Platform has not undergone post-Permian vertical movements of some 2500 m indicated by the vitrinite data.
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Larger companies in the industry acquired smaller companies, while the overall market demand for propane remained relatively stable .
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Between 1982/83 and 1984/85 the level of taxation remained relatively stable .
unscathed
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The government was relatively unscathed by scandals at Lloyd's, the collapse of Johnson Matthey, and the Guinness saga.
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I breezed through college relatively unscathed .
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The forefoot showed excessive wear while the heel remained relatively unscathed .
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average remained relatively unscathed during the last six months, attracting more positive money flow.
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Most significant for Ipswich, though, is that they seem to have come out of their winter blip relatively unscathed .
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Much has been made of the fact that San Francisco emerged relatively unscathed from Loma Prieta.
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Byrne dragged Stephen's body to a relatively unscathed section while Hunt went in search of help.
weak
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Such a state of affairs provides the seller with a unique opportunity to exploit the relatively weak bargaining position of the investor.
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Sometimes the child who is relatively weaker in visual-spatial abilities may be stronger in the auditory-verbal processing area.
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Hot, hydrothermally altered ground and relatively weak fumaroles, but no active hot springs, are found on these volcanoes.
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Norris has a relatively weak chin but more experience than Trinidad, which could give Whitaker some trouble.
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However the study shows that the degree quality of the AEs is relatively weak .
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With a child who is relatively weaker visually you can emphasize play that builds these skills.
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Performance was relatively weaker with small scale acoustic recital and chamber material where a certain hardness sometimes intruded.
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Like many children who are relatively weak in these skills, the elementary school years were hard for Louisa.
young
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It is relatively young , with a probable age of no more than a few million years.
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And why, after all that, did she have to die so relatively young ?
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None had the craggy furrows of old tree bark, so these were relatively young and in their prime.
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Audio is a relatively young industry.
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We would like to recruit secretaries who are relatively young and who might possibly, but not necessarily, be ordained.
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While the city is relatively young , age alone provides insufficient explanation.
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The parliamentary party was thus a relatively young group of men, with the most privileged also the youngest.
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She had no judicial experience and was relatively young , a liberal and a woman.
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remain
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The forefoot showed excessive wear while the heel remained relatively unscathed.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average remained relatively unscathed during the last six months, attracting more positive money flow.
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There have been no problems in staffing the committees and the membership has remained relatively static.
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Demand is projected to remain relatively flat.
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Access data is only useful when records remain relatively constant in their activity.
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As compared to other business upswings, real wages during this growth period have remained relatively stagnant.
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Between 1982/83 and 1984/85 the level of taxation remained relatively stable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It's a relatively inexpensive restaurant.
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The phone has been relatively quiet today.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He predicted marketing would be hardest hit, while research would be relatively spared.
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However, even relatively rhythmic and non-contact activities may be associated with substantial injury risks.
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More important, however, is the occasional presence of an initial relatively symptom free period, which can mislead the clinician.
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Okra is relatively easy to grow given sufficient space.
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Termites are often relatively easy to spot, especially in the early stages.
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The relatively recent outbreak of street violence and protests largely reflect the frustration of young people unable to find jobs.
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The effect of this shift was a highly synchronized but relatively mild recession.
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These relatively complex communicative demands establish the conditions in which simple gestures, such as pointing, are particularly useful.