growing disparity

collocation in English

meaningsofgrowinganddisparity

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growing
adjective
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/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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disparity
noun[C or U]
uk
/dɪˈspær.ə.ti/us
/dɪˈsper.ə.t̬i/
a lack of equality or similarity, especially in a way that is ...
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(Definition ofgrowinganddisparityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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What is especially noteworthy is thegrowingdisparityin heights during the period we are comparing.
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There was a trend ofgrowingdisparitybetween the two samples : the upper classes were becoming taller while the average stature of the labouring classes was declining or stagnating.
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And our very successes in some fields of education may obscure thisgrowingdisparity.
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That is the main reason for thegrowingdisparitybetween the various regions.
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Where, however, the family increases you get agrowingdisparitybetween unemployment benefit and unemployment assistance.
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That would lead to agrowingdisparityin children's educational opportunities between one school and another in the same community.
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Secondly, there is agrowingdisparitybetween the limits in question for candidates in borough constituencies and candidates in county constituencies.
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Therefore, in order to maintain a peaceful and stable society the issue ofgrowingdisparityin earnings must be addressed.
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Yet they have not admitted to our own people thegrowingdisparityin our strength.
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Without true social cohesion it will be increasingly difficult for police to respond to thegrowingdisparityand diversity of demands being made upon them.
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And someone has more recently said that in our time there is agrowingdisparitybetween strong physics and weak sociology.
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There is, indeed, agrowingdisparity, as we all recognise, between rich and poor nations—and, indeed, it is agrowingdisparity.
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I refer to the continuallygrowingdisparitybetween the living standards in the developed and in the underdeveloped countries.
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Many people could be put to work in a way which would strengthen the country's economic infrastructure, and which would reduce the enormous andgrowingdisparitybetween north and south.
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Surely the greatest of all the political problems which face the civilised world is thegrowingdisparity in living standards between the developing and the developed countries.
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One aspect of the current situation that is often overlooked is thegrowingdisparityin size and even interests between the existing labour force and former pensioned employees.
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Companies serving the public need some form of social consent and that is not best served by agrowingdisparityin pay between the top and the bottom.
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Thisgrowingdisparitybetween the reward of the farm worker in the country and the town worker is only one of several factors in this exodus from the villages.
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Unless we are careful to vet what local authorities are doing, to publish what they are doing and to ginger them up, there will be agrowingdisparitybetween areas.
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