overall volume

collocation in English

meaningsofoverallandvolume

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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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volume
noun
uk
/ˈvɒl.juːm/us
/ˈvɑːl.juːm/
the amount of space that is contained within an object or ...
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(Definition ofoverallandvolumefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoverall volume

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The obvious answer to this problem was to reduce theoverallvolumeof the artwork.
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The volume of items prescribed by extended formulary nurse prescribers or supplementary nurse prescribers is still a small proportion of theoverallvolumebut it is increasing.
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Altering either theoverallvolumeof a sound or its min distance can be used to affect how the sound functions in the game world.
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Consistent with the lack ofoverallvolumedifferences for either the neocortex or the subcortical structures, there was also no difference in total cerebral volume between the groups.
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Strikingly theoverallvolumeof usage of complementary childcare was significantly higher than the overall use of market-based childcare.
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Addition of dislocation creep to such a deformation mechanism association would not alter the requirement ofoverallvolumeconstancy at any stage.
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A simple formula - volume of customs receipts divided by the percentage of the total merchandise they represented and multiplied by 100#$ - will yield acceptableoverallvolumeestimates.
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However, the key issue must be to reduce theoverallvolumeof animal transportation.
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This clearly is leading to a substantial downturn in theoverallvolumeof mail.
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And they have agreed on theoverallvolumeof payments appropriations.
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The reserve would not affect theoverallvolumeof the agricultural budget.
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Theoverallvolumeof work will contract over time.
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Although theoverallvolumeof provision is the same, the service is different.
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Firstly, theoverallvolumeof complaints and of cases handled is actually stable.
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Should we not cut down these exports and reduce theoverallvolumeof this traffic?
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Alternatively, possibly more beneficially, it might permit an increase in theoverallvolumeof service.
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There is no reason to think that autoguide will increase theoverallvolumeof traffic.
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To achieve this objective of putting a larger proportion of theoverallvolumeof traffic back onto the railways, we need to create appropriate framework conditions.
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Theoverallvolumeof local authority expenditure continued to increase in every year up to and including 1984–85.
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