noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
low
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As a result a third, lower tier to the court system, the police courts, was added in 1843.
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The lowest tier on the tea tray holds four glass containers of jams and custard and the promise of scones to come.
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The lowest tier of planks cleared his head by at least a foot.
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Some were perhaps not unhappy at the abolition of the counties, for certain powers returned to the lower tiers of government.
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A lower tier of 10,000 seats will be ready for the 1993 Five Nations.
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Must we take a fund soas to avoid having our patients condemned to the lower tier of a two tier service?
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Green Belt functions were transferred to the lower tier authorities who are now required to prepare unitary development plans for their areas.
new
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Without these skills, we risk creating a new tier of unregulated and unaccountable decision-making.
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The legislation transformed it into a new central bank and introduced a new tier of commercial banks and other lending institutions.
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Labour offers to all those who want simpler local government a new tier of expensive regional government.
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When the London Stock Exchange's new third tier market started up, most punters were interested.
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It appears that even now we are witnessing the establishment of a new and uppermost tier in the hierarchy of precious metals.
top
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You could add a smaller top tier of curtains which could be drawn at night should you want complete privacy.
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Of those, 71% moved to a top tier auditor while only 8% moved away from the largest firms.
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These could form a top tier of targets which could be developed for application to individual businesses.
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What, then, about the top tier ?
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The top tier of hangars was in darkness.
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The most important developments, however, were to occur in the top tier of designated districts - the Partnerships.
upper
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The descent to the Main Cliff and Upper tier remains serious, but no workable remedy has been found so far.
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Tastes for variety are assumed to be of the S-D-S form, and the upper tier utility function is Cobb-Douglas.
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Look especially for the frieze of statues on the upper tier .
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Let the upper tier utility function be Cobb-Douglas.
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The solution is to drape the upper tiers of stadiums with colorful banners and herd spectators close to the pitch.
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What happens when upper tier preferences can not be represented by a Cobb-Douglas utility function?
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In the 1983 to 1987 Parliament, we removed the metropolitan upper tier .
■ NOUN
system
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There's no point in the fund holding system unless there is a two tier system.
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The tier system gives both light and privacy.
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The critics are making a fundamental error in labelling this the start of a two-tier system .
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The two tier system mentioned some time ago was needed now and a greater standard of excellence was essential in practical embalming.
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We are seeing the beginnings of a two tier system .
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More importantly, a different tier system is developing in different parts of the country.
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He says we're going toward a two tier system and those dependant on the state are seen as failures.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mason occupied two spaces on a tier of seats normally reserved for the board of directors and important visitors.
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The strong economy has done little for workers at the lowest tier .
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We always sat in the top tier of seats.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand.
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It is the second tier of visual cortex that specializes.
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Statues by the hundred sat around and above him, tier upon curving tier.
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The legislation transformed it into a new central bank and introduced a new tier of commercial banks and other lending institutions.
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The second tier of the programme is in-house training.
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The two tiers are not intended to exist in a hierarchical relationship to each other.