growing incidence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrowingandincidence
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growing
adjective
uk/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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incidence
noun[C usually singular]
uk/ˈɪn.sɪ.dəns/us/ˈɪn.sɪ.dəns/
an event, or the rate at which ...
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(Definition ofgrowingandincidencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thegrowingincidenceof corporate taxation to fund development schemes is a case in point.
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Second, they report agrowingincidenceof conflict within them, and that implies that an increasing number of townsmen were competing for scarce resources.
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She handed me a petition that highlighted thegrowingincidenceof unacceptable violence against shop workers.
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One wonders whether such an enormous sum of money—it is growing every year—must necessarily be paid by society to fund thegrowingincidenceof sickness.
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I have some statistics which highlight thegrowingincidenceof juvenile crime.
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Secondly, another aspect of road safety is the problem of fumes from cars and thegrowingincidenceof asthma in recent years.
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Itsgrowingincidenceis not in dispute, though proven cases of illness that can he traced back to food are very few.
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That increase recognises thegrowingincidenceof fly posting, and the need for a more punitive deterrent for those responsible for that environmental crime.
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In the view of many residents, thegrowingincidenceof crime dates back some five years.
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A further point made in opposition to the argument for change related to thegrowingincidenceof young marriages, and the general social undesirability of encouraging them.
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I do not have to try any harder because there is enough evidence of thegrowingincidencenot only of hooliganism but of loutish behaviour and violence.
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This practice contributes in part to thegrowingincidenceof antibiotic resistance, a trend exacerbated by the widespread use of antibiotics in medicine in general.
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The new system was launched partly to provide an alternatively to agrowingincidenceof increasingly costly litigation, and to head off the threat of a new privacy law.
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