high incidence

collocation in English

meaningsofhighandincidence

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high
adjective
uk
/haɪ/us
/haɪ/
(especially of things that are not living) being a large distance from top to bottom or a long way above the ground, or having the stated distance from top ...
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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 ofhighandincidencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Cells with ahighincidenceof texts are shaded.
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The villagers reported ahighincidenceof rule breaking.
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In all cases, breeders had not selected them because they had ahighincidenceof disease.
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They were generally welcomed by residents because of thehighincidenceof violent crime which the police were unable or unwilling to check.
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An operative time of 4 hours was also associated with ahighincidenceof complications.
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Thehighincidenceof complications was related to excessive shunt, especially with the prostheses sutured on the ascending aorta or on the brachiocephalic artery.
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This pronounced temporary drop correlates with ahighincidenceof invasive disease caused by encapsulated bacteria.
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One plausible explanation for observed stem increases in this plot is an unusuallyhighincidenceof large tree-fall events.
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Farmers who settled in this region, utilizing practices developed in more humid regions, experienced ahighincidenceof crop failure.
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This highly significant contribution indicates that some locations have a consistentlyhighincidenceof this disease.
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This may also have contributed to the comparativelyhighincidencedetected.
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Our results are very similar to those reported throughout the state, and reflect thehighincidenceof the disease in the last 12 years.
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This is predominantly because of thehighincidenceof chromosomal or other structural anomalies associated with diaphragmatic hernia.
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Coronary arterial disease, in particular, has ahighincidence, causing serious myocardial dysfunction and sudden death.
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A further cause of particular concern is thehighincidenceof sudden and unexplained death in survivors of early shunts.
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They were particularly agitated byhighincidenceof armed robbery in their towns of residence.
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Despite such ahighincidencewithin the overall spectrum of depressive disorders, bipolar affective disorder is frequently misdiagnosed.
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