noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a book/volume/collection of poems
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She has a new collection of poems coming out soon.
a book/volume/collection of poetry
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He had two books of poetry published.
cranked up...volume
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We cranked up the volume .
slim volume
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a slim volume of poetry
the volume of sales (= the amount of goods a company sells )
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Because of its high volume of sales, the company can keep prices low.
the volume of traffic
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The new ring road will reduce the volume of traffic through the village.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
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Volume was 7. 9 million shares, more than three times the average daily volume during the past three months.
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The stock toppled 6 to 21 as 76, 000 shares changed hands, more than twice its daily average volume .
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Some 14. 7 million shares traded, almost five times its six-month daily average volume .
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Volume on the Big Board slumped to 130. 4 million shares, about one-third the average trading volume in recent weeks.
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That compares with three-month average daily trading volume of 570, 000 shares.
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Nearly 27 million shares traded Friday, higher than the three-month average daily volume of 12. 2 million shares.
daily
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These theories predict a positive relationship between daily volume and volatility, as illustrated in Fig. 8.4.
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Average daily share volume set a record at 346 million shares a day, according to preliminary data from the exchange.
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The stock toppled 6 to 21 as 76, 000 shares changed hands, more than twice its daily average volume .
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Volume was 7. 9 million shares, more than three times the average daily volume during the past three months.
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Such a high daily volume of transactions is currently not feasible because of the overhead involved.
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Some 14. 7 million shares traded, almost five times its six-month daily average volume .
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Average daily volume the past three months was 7. 4 million shares.
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The Brady bond market has grown to a volume 50 times greater than the daily volume in shares, traders said.
free
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This allowed them to include in their theory dissimilarities in free volume between polymer and solvent, together with the corresponding interactions.
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Thermal expansion of a liquid without change of phase can then be regarded as an increase in free volume .
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The larger the free volume , the more condensation will form.
great
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Despite the great volume of material that existed on the Mughals, I had always found them difficult to visualize.
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The higher import quota also means greater volume and higher profit margins for other refiners like Alexander&038;.
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Once you have picked up a signal you concentrate in that area until the signal is received at the greatest possible volume .
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Take care when doing water changes as they do not like great volumes of freshwater.
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This means that when heat is applied it will produce greater volumes of condensation.
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The computer can produce great volumes of rubbish at incredible speed.
high
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Whilst these claims may only be small in amount, they are high in volume .
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The extended contract and higher volume of service commitment provides Verio with an improved price beginning in January 1999.
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The left-hand graph shows that at low pressure the volume of a fixed amount of gas is high .
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Stock prices very often go up on high volume immediately after earnings are reported.
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The sheer efficiency of the drivers, especially at high volumes , can be disconcerting, and the sound is exceptionally bright.
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Last Thursday and Friday, options that could be exercised in January and February were being bought in unusually high volume .
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To the rear of the glazed, folding partition lay the larger, higher volume of the original school-room.
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The low cost strategy it employs is possible only with high volume production plants and low unit research and development costs.
large
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More favoured here was the use of promissory notes and bills of exchange in large volume and down to low denominations.
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Producing form letters in larger volumes is discussed in Chapters 19 and 20.
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For that period the buyers were therefore without its larger capacity and therefore unable to cater for a larger volume of business.
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The HMOs offer a physician group an exclusive contract to take care of a large volume of patients.
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Originally a single large volume , the Book of Kells was repaired and re-bound in 1953 in four volumes.
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It is the key format for handling large volumes of information.
low
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However, there are countervailing forces which might result in a lower volume of services.
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Its appeal is its ease of spreading and lower calorie content volume for volume.
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A number of brewers now use a device called a cask breather on low volume beers to prolong their life.
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He said he expects continued weaker prices and lower volume as companies curtail production.
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Until recently, that was the only cost-effective option available to low-volume car builders.
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How did mall stores battle back, saddled with higher rents, less floor space and lower volume than their competitors?
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It's the same sort of sound but much lower in volume and pitch - it almost sounds like a stomach rumbling.
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The bigger premises increased Lotus' overheads, which made low volume production cars unprofitable to manufacture.
sheer
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The sheer volume of insignia required for public services means that insignia can be given only the appearance of precious metals.
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The sheer volume of it suffocated every good intention.
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In any event the sheer volume and variety of bodies under departmental sponsorship often makes ministerial responsibility something of a myth.
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Most bankers say that the sheer volume of checks means that most banks only spot-check signatures.
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But the sheer range and volume of business with which the secretaries of state dealt made them important officers of government.
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It is not only sheer volume but the nature of the noise that arouses sleepers.
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Aim to increase the proportion of carbohydrates in your diet rather than the sheer volume .
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In contemplating the lair of Ed and Klara Durbeck, the temptation is to gape at the sheer volume of the contents.
slim
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I made a careful note of this exchange in the slim volume in which I stashed anything that sounded like wisdom.
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Each is a slim volume but so packed with useful information and recipes that the price of £4.99 seems modest.
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She brought to light a slim black volume and tossed it to Rex.
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This slim volume is essential reading for all involved with Letters of Credit.
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This is a suitably slimmer volume on one of his wives, Rita Hayworth.
small
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The process produces a much smaller volume of chemically inert radioactive waste than conventional ion exchange techniques.
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Never think that I dismiss lightly the hard work and devotion that go into each small volume .
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But this was not just the effect of slower markets and smaller volumes on commission and fee income.
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So small volumes of lung tissue are exposed to high doses of alpha radiation.
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Ignatius of Loyola, the small volume that was the fountainhead of Jesuit spirituality.
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This is a small , chatty volume of the kind that White has turned out in recent years with great success.
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How could such a small volume produce such a colossal amount of energy?
total
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It was just 6% of total world factoring volumes in 1991, according to Factors Chain International.
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Nasdaq market decliners beat advancers 1, 496 to 1, 442 on total trading volume of 142. 7 million shares.
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The total volume is said to contain more than 6,500 pages.
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Wieczorek estimates the total volume of rock as 80, 000 cubic yards.
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The total volume of resources applied by the health services is essentially an arbitrary figure.
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The total volume of the brown shales is 12, 600 cubic miles as determined from a study of well cuttings.
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The exchange said Brady bond trading accounted for 77 percent of its total trading volume in 1995.
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And Department of Education figures show that total loan volume increased 50 percent between 1992 and 1996.
■ NOUN
cell
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Associations have been shown between low packed cell volume or red cell volume, or both, and the respiratory distress syndrome.
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We have shown that red cell volume predicts outcome in preterm infants.
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Unit cell volumes of two other crystal forms of CypA-CsA complexes are consistent with ten molecules per asymmetric unit.
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The above cell volume regulatory mechanisms have usually been demonstrated by suddenly exposing cells to large changes in medium osmolality.
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Therefore, cell volume regulatory mechanisms might also play a major role in balancing ion fluxes across the two membranes.
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For those not requiring red cell transfusion there was no difference in packed cell volume between the groups at 1 month.
companion
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The Society now wishes to produce another companion volume in the form of illustrations of labelled and name-stamped London furniture.
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Perhaps a companion volume on dynamic headspace is in the offing?
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Along with its companion volume this book can be recommended to newcomers, and to more experienced workers.
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A companion volume to the Handy album, and very nearly as good.
control
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They laugh Quechua at me while one removes the volume control and drops it some distance away.
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In an auditorium everyone has their personal volume control .
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Insert the jack plug into the stereo unit earphone socket and turn the volume control to a low level.
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A volume control is also attached to the headphone cable.
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There's some kind of dried food stuck on the volume control .
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If the rating is not marked on the switch or volume control it isn't worth the risk.
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You mention that the noise increases as you reduce the volume control on the guitar.
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Next in line is a separate volume control for the clean sound, giving a sort of pseudo-twin channel operation.
traffic
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This was planned to reduce traffic volume by 40 percent.
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As traffic volumes increase, the demand for office and commercial developments, instead of residential uses, grows.
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It shows steady increases in accidents with injuries, as traffic volumes mounted.
■ VERB
increase
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If it does not vary at all, increase the volume a little.
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The easiest, and worst, response to external noise by the typical headphone user is increasing the volume .
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As the organization has expanded, the demand for manpower related information has increased in terms of volume , range and depth.
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Stirring effects the introduction of air and increases the volume of the mix 100 percent or more.
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Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods increases the volume of waste and should be undertaken only when necessary for safety reasons.
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During the spring the Sol becomes a torrent as melt waters vastly increase the volume of water.
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And increasing its volume only reduces its effectiveness by altering the way it processes sound pulses.
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Legislation has increased in volume and complexity over the years.
produce
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It produces condensed volumes of modules which can be reproduced on paper, microfilm or microfiche.
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Distinguished practitioners and academics have produced volumes about managerial work and proposed a variety of conceptualizations.
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The process produces a much smaller volume of chemically inert radioactive waste than conventional ion exchange techniques.
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One family close by produced children in such volume that the parents ran out of names and began giving them numbers.
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Large multinational corporations produce and acquire vast volumes of information in the course of their business.
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The Society now wishes to produce another companion volume in the form of illustrations of labelled and name-stamped London furniture.
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This means that when heat is applied it will produce greater volumes of condensation.
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The computer can produce great volumes of rubbish at incredible speed.
publish
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In 1860 Louis Martinet published two volumes of photographs o principal works of contemporary art.
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A detailed index was published in a separate volume .
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It is published in 15 volumes by the Royal National Institute for the Blind.
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Its deliberations were published in two volumes by the University of Chicago Press, and subsequently reprinted several times.
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The Department of Health has published nine separate volumes of guidance on the Children Act.
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It was published in volume form in May 1839.
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This edition was published in 1950 as volume v of his Boswell, together with a separate Index to the whole.
reduce
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The use of a Working-Set database reduces the overall volume of text stored.
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Evaporated milk is sterilized homogenized milk that has been reduced in volume by about 60 percent loss of water.
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The chief aim is to reduce the solid volume of waste, offensive odours and to effect pathogen removal.
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It is subversive to companies that sell remediation-which explains why solid waste companies often block efforts to reduce the volume of garbage.
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Market loans reduce the volume of idle cash held by banks.
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Concentrated milk is prepared from pasteurized milk; the removal of water reduces volume to about one third.
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This was planned to reduce traffic volume by 40 percent.
speak
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Other than the face, hands are the most visible part of one's body and invariably speak volumes about a person.
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His grin spoke volumes to the back row.
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To many this brashness spoke volumes about the form which urban redevelopment was taking.
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But the juxtaposition of the two buildings speaks volumes about the rapid disappearance of regional, vernacular, even weirdo architecture.
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Her daring novel speaks volumes about the power of the imagination to transform an unbearable reality.
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Often, though, he speaks volumes when he chooses not to speak at all.
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A headhunter for ten years, Kinnaird has just been commissioned by his first female client, which speaks volumes .
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One can speak volumes with a few little sounds, given the proper context and intonation.
trade
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This month trading volume , now quoted in euros, has averaged Euros 190m.
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Nasdaq market decliners beat advancers 1, 496 to 1, 442 on total trading volume of 142. 7 million shares.
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So far both have traded in low volumes .
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Volume on the Big Board slumped to 130. 4 million shares, about one-third the average trading volume in recent weeks.
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That compares with three-month average daily trading volume of 570, 000 shares.
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All of the exchanges have upgraded their technology and communications systems to safely handle more trading volume .
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The exchange said Brady bond trading accounted for 77 percent of its total trading volume in 1995.
turn
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Insert the jack plug into the stereo unit earphone socket and turn the volume control to a low level.
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We turned the volume down but stayed up talking.
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Tim Renton is obviously the kind of person who would turn the volume down on a Johnny Mathis 78.
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He turned the volume up as loud as it would go and stared at the familiar faces on the screen.
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I turn the volume low, to stop picking up snatches of conversation from next door.
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They turned the volume high as it would go and moved the radio off the counter, down behind the stand.
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Others can make a loud noise when stopped and you have to turn the volume down.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
speak volumes (about/for sth)
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But the juxtaposition of the two buildings speaks volumes about the rapid disappearance of regional, vernacular, even weirdo architecture.
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His grin spoke volumes to the back row.
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Jack's tone spoke volumes, but Polly was trying not to listen.
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Often, though, he speaks volumes when he chooses not to speak at all.
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Other than the face, hands are the most visible part of one's body and invariably speak volumes about a person.
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The 8 successful trips so far speak volumes.
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The perpetual grin and I-just-won-the-lottery look on his face spoke volumes: The guy was ecstatic.
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Your body language will speak volumes about your happy state. 4 Inhibition decreases.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a volume of poetry
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a 13-volume report
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After 1998, there was a rapid fall in the volume of trade.
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Bill had the volume on the stereo turned up all the way.
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Help me figure out the volume of this fish tank.
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sales volume
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The volume of traffic on our roads has risen by 50% in the past three years.
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The period from 1940 to 1949 is in Volume 9.
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The shifting of continents has an impact on the volume of water the oceans can contain.
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The unit is equal to the volume of a container measuring 8 by 8 by 20 feet.
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This button here controls the volume .
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Turn the volume down - I can't hear myself think!
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You can use the remote control to turn the volume up or down.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In recent years, the volume of traffic has been doubling annually.
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In the 12 months to October its volume sales grew 101 % according to ACNielsen.
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It was a bizarre, almost surreal volume .
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That is the task of other volumes and even more of other authors.