growing population
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrowingandpopulation
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growing
adjective
uk/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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(Definition ofgrowingandpopulationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The large andgrowingpopulationimposes great pressure on available natural resources.
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The new university is intended to assist in answering the tertiary education needs of the rapidlygrowingpopulationof the region.
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Reasonable lower limits of thegrowingpopulationshould therefore be used, rather than mean values, as are often used in calculations of ordinary population growth.
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Given thegrowingpopulationof older adults, the need to improve our understanding of late-life depression is increasingly urgent.
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Itsgrowingpopulationand dingy slums were cause for elite concern, so some light was aimed at security.
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Therefore, services and social care for the poor and unemployed or thegrowingpopulationof the aged need more and more local investment and stimulation.
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This method was used to find the average age of a selected allele in an exponentiallygrowingpopulation.
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This would endanger economic growth, which depends upon agrowingpopulation.
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First, social marginal damage of pollution increases: with agrowingpopulation, more people suffer from environmental pollution, which is a public bad.
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Ironically, in the face of chronic malnutrition and the challenge of feeding agrowingpopulation, the world faces an obesity epidemic.
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The elderly population is the largestgrowingpopulationgroup today.
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The world'sgrowingpopulationand increasing income imply increased demand for agricultural goods.
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Thegrowingpopulation, along with water scarcity, brought poverty to the area.
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Indeed, as the food and fiber requirements ofgrowingpopulationincreased, coupled with the need to generate foreign exchange, increasing agricultural productivity became a vital national concern.
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But it was equally home to many who had opted for the city and a large part of thegrowingpopulationwere children who knew no other home.
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Total energy consumption in 2020 at a lower level than that in 1990 with agrowingpopulationimplies a lower per capita availability of energy with higher per capita incomes.
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