brief account
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbriefandaccount
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brief
adjective
uk/briːf/us/briːf/
lasting only a short time or containing ...
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account
noun
uk/əˈkaʊnt/us/əˈkaʊnt/
an arrangement with a bank to keep your money there and to allow you to take it out when you ...
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(Definition ofbriefandaccountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofbrief account
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Section 2 provides abriefaccountof the discounting issue.
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We give here abriefaccountof each case.
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Here is abriefaccountof the main difficulty.
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We give abriefaccounthere of the socio-demographic variables.
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Surely, thisbriefaccountof belief needs refinement, but it suffices for the present purpose.
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We give here abriefaccountof the application of clustering to text mining.
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Only abriefaccountof the tests of importance for this paper will be presented here.
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We provide abriefaccountof the scientific rationale behind the approach presented here.
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To answer these questions we now turn to abriefaccountof extant scholarly approaches.
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In order to compare his results with ours, we present abriefaccountof an operational semantics for annotated terms.
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It gives abriefaccounton representation theory of finite groups with applications to enumeration of algebraically represented maps.
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The next section provides abriefaccountof the semantic dimensions of the term ' politeness ' in its eighteenth-century usage.
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It concludes with abriefaccountof the steps that were taken to enhance the ' credibility ' of the data.
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Given the selective nature of the work, abriefaccountof the contents of each chapter is perhaps helpful.
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Inevitably in such abriefaccountcomplex social relationships are simplified to some extent, but the dominant trends are unmistakable.
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Abriefaccountof insect population dynamics precedes a discussion of the causes of epidemics of pests and vectored diseases.
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I am giving only abriefaccountof the proposals.
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I have given a verybriefaccountof it.
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But before that the reader will no doubt like abriefaccountof some of the material presented, and who the speakers were.
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Presented here are a check-list, an identification key to puparia, and abriefaccountof each species including its distribution and host-plant range.
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This observation leads me to give abriefaccountof the urban development of the city, of how it grew out of marshes and waters.
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