growing tendency
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrowingandtendency
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growing
adjective
uk/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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tendency
noun[C]
uk/ˈten.dən.si/us/ˈten.dən.si/
If someone has a tendency to do or like something, they will probably do it or ...
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(Definition ofgrowingandtendencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is complicated to make an assumption of thegrowingtendencyof the small dilatations.
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Most of this increase was due to agrowingtendencytoward early retirement among men.
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Spurred on by a sense of crisis and agrowingtendencyto separate accidents from other problems of working class life, the trickle became a flood.
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Here is a book which is the ultimate in thegrowingtendencyof dealing with theory without specific textual examples.
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There was, however, agrowingtendencyto treat behaviour as a kind of bodily rhetoric, through which individuals expressed inner psychological states associated with ideals of gentlemanliness or courtliness.
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While there are those who would restrict its use to informal speech or writing, there is agrowingtendency to consider it acceptable on any level of speech and writing.
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First, it identified agrowingtendencyto justify aggressiveness and expansionist policies on the grounds of imperial necessity.
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The table shows agrowingtendencyfor births to be concentrated in the age group 20-29, and a general decline in the age groups older than this.
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Observers have noted agrowingtendencyto interpret the criteria for refugee status in an increasingly restrictive manner.
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As also identified in a previous analysis, there was agrowingtendencyamong educated and active family members to become involved in off-farm employment whenever opportunities were available.
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Wright, by contrast, suggests that 'this trend merely manifests agrowingtendencyfor writers to put into written forms things that they have always and easily said' (1994a: 467).
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There is agrowingtendencyto curb the right of asylum.
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There is one further problem in particular, namely thegrowingtendencyto separate information from commentary.
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There is agrowingtendencyin agriculture to take in casual labour.
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There is agrowingtendencyfor politicians to do too much.
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There is agrowingtendencyto pass legislation giving organisations unnecessarily authoritarian powers.
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My postbag indicates agrowingtendencyto regard this problem as one of importance.
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I suspect that there is agrowingtendencyto lump unions and management together as "them".
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The time has come to demand an inquiry into thisgrowingtendencyto increase hours.
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