pattern of distribution
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpatternanddistribution
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pattern
noun
uk/ˈpæt.ən/us/ˈpæt̬.ɚn/
a particular way in which something is done, is organized, ...
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distribution
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌdɪs.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/us/ˌdɪs.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/
the process of giving things out to several people, or spreading or ...
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(Definition ofpatternanddistributionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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No consistentpatternofdistributionof these different morphologies has been detected.
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Thepatternofdistributionwas the same in primed and control seeds.
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However, the social context strategy strayed from thispatternofdistribution.
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It is reasonable to think that electoral outcomes affect thepatternofdistributionof government expenditure.
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Thepatternofdistributionof the different types of ceramics appears slightly more complex.
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To a greater or lesser extent, depending on the country, a modification in thepatternofdistributionof pension policy appears in all major reformers.
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Indeed, any attempt to impose somepatternofdistributionwill violate one or the other of these rights, and so be unjust.
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There might be disagreement, and yet apatternofdistributionmight be stable; there might be agreement, and yet a pattern might be self-under mining.
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The second research question asks whether there is a differentpatternofdistributionand use depending on the position of actually and in fact within an utterance.
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The latter may provide benefits too small or universal to affect the overallpatternofdistribution; or they may provide others too thoroughly concealed to show up in official statistics.
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Democratic elections have yet to result in intensified pressure to transform thispatternofdistributionin the short term, in part because labour continues to exert disproportionate political influence.
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Of course one would be conceding (or claiming) too much if one were to conjecture that unanimous altruism went hand in hand with a particularpatternofdistribution.
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Such a structure could generally be described based on the amount andpatternofdistributionof genetic diversity within and between different geographic or genetic groups.
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In consequence, more places will be available and thepatternofdistributionimproved.
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I want to see a newpatternofdistribution.
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The level of the increase and thepatternofdistributionare partly a matter for international agreement and partly a matter for negotiation.
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