growing concern
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrowingandconcern
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growing
adjective
uk/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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concern
noun
uk/kənˈsɜːn/us/kənˈsɝːn/
a worried or nervous feeling about something, or something that makes you ...
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(Definition ofgrowingandconcernfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Growingconcernover environmental degradation has lead to increasingly stringent regulations to control actions that harm the environment, both at the national and international levels.
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Projects are emerging that reflect thegrowingconcernwith preservation and access to our electroacoustic heritage.
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There isgrowingconcernwith the environmental costs of agricultural production34.
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There isgrowingconcernthat selection of medical device products is based on nonclinical factors such as financial relationships (17;19).
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Fortunately, there seems to be agrowingconcernamongst musicians and scholars to tackle this topic and reveal many artistic secrets.
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Thegrowingconcernregarding propriety in all things made classical antecedents important for the justification of all matter or behaviour that might attract censorious attention.
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Nonetheless, there has recently beengrowingconcernover the convergent validity of phoneme awareness tasks and the nature of the underlying construct that is tested.
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The attention to correctness reflects agrowingconcernwith purity in language.
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It was a matter ofgrowingconcern, and the poor themselves were becoming the objects of study and reflection.
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Crucial to this re-evaluation was agrowingconcernwith environmental management.
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The second trend is thegrowingconcernwith making archaeology more meaningful and accessible to a wider public.
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A swelling army of masterless men and landless, or nearly landless, vagrants became agrowingconcernfor elites.
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The industrial pressure for water was reinforced by agrowingconcernamongst urban property owners generally about water requirements for fire prevention purposes.
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The new approach is also fed bygrowingconcernabout the limitations in the governance of the model, based upon knowledge as a public good.
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The elderly audience - agrowingconcern.
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This is an area ofgrowingconcern.
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Thisgrowingconcernto create a more holistic archaeology that is socially responsible and politically aware emerges as one self-defined, highly compelling mission of this archaeological generation.
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This is agrowingconcernof mine.
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However, while the new antidepressants are safe and effective for treating adults with depression, there isgrowingconcernabout the risks of prescribing antidepressants to children.
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