overall trend
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoverallandtrend
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overall
adverb[before noun]
adjective
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈrɔːl/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈɑːl/
in general rather than in particular, or including all the people or things in a particular group ...
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trend
noun[C]
uk/trend/us/trend/
a general development or change in a situation or in the way that people ...
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(Definition ofoverallandtrendfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Although this is a strongoveralltrend, it conceals some variability within the group.
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Theoveralltrendwas, therefore, towards common expenditure patterns between the services considered.
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Theoveralltrendin mortality is represented by the five-year moving average.
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The solid line is fitted by eye and simply reflects theoveralltrend.
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There are, however, important exceptions to thisoveralltrend.
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Theoveralltrendof this contact is north-south, although local variations occur.
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Theoveralltrendwas thus still an increase of attrition risk as time lapsed.
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The distribution pattern in a 4-ha area of 11 selected primary forest canopy tree species revealed anoveralltrendin recolonisation of this species category in the secondary forest.
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Theoveralltrendfor the whole cycle is calculated from the same set of receptive fields, but shown over a slightly longer distance, for clarity of presentation.
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In lemons, the relative mean proportions were not as stable through time even though theoveralltrendwas also male biased.
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The monthly incidence per 100 000 person-years is shown on top, and below it is theoveralltrendin the incidence.
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Theoveralltrendin the sign (direction) of the purging effect on neonatal survival across species, however, was highly significant.
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We can identify two regularities in these graphs: the relationship between the three types of link entropies and theoveralltrend.
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However, the variances and means were approximately the same for -1 and 1, suggesting that theoveralltrendis accurate.
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But, significantly, theoveralltrendof increased use of -ly with modifiers can be also traced to the individual adverbs.
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In these studies, there were interactions in both directions but nooveralltrendto synergism was seen.
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Theoveralltrendhere confirms the finding for subject relativization that whpronouns are used more in formal texts.
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Certain wards gave results which did not conform to theoveralltrend.
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Theoveralltrendwas that the larger the buildings plumbing had been, the more samples were positive for legionella and the more bacteria could be found.
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