increased consumption
collocation in Englishmeaningsofincreaseandconsumption
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increase
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.kriːs/us/ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or size ...
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consumption
noun[U]
uk/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/us/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/
the amount used ...
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(Definition ofincreaseandconsumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As a note of caution, however, we should expect a couple of possibilities that may either slow down or hinder the chances ofincreasedconsumption.
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If the price were too low, supplies too ample and shops too frequent, there would beincreasedconsumptionof opium.
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One therapeutic area that is particulary prone to anincreasedconsumptionof high-cost pharmaceuticals is oncology.
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Increased infrastructural supply lessens the environmental costs of consumption, and, the other way round,increasedconsumptionincreases the marginal benefit of pollution-reducing infrastructure.
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Consequently, there are some immediate positive distributional elements of this policy, but they are conditional uponincreasedconsumptionof natural resource capital, and an increase in urban unemployment.
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In that model,increasedconsumptionvolatility due to transaction costs reduces the willingness of agents to bear aggregate risk, which can lead to a higher equity premium.
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Taking into consideration theincreasedconsumptionby patients due to their longer survival, the predicted cost-effectiveness ratio was 2,363 per quality-adjusted life-year gained.
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Blue collar did not pass into white by way of relocation, higher wages andincreasedconsumption.
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The increase both in livestock numbers and in the non-grain sectors resulted inincreasedconsumption of grain within agriculture, with less for extrarural marketings and for export.
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Sixty minutes of circulatory arrest caused anincreasedconsumptionof oxygen at 10 minutes of rewarming.
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This increase will in turn lead toincreasedconsumption.
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Theincreasedconsumptionand consequent higher growth rates could be explained by the higher concentrations of nitrogen and sugars in sun-exposed leaves sampled at the forest edge.
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Moser (1998) observed that when a poorer household experiences a fall in income or hasincreasedconsumption needs, a key risk-mitigation strategy is to increase the number of breadwinners.
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If we add to those this demand today for a freeing of petrol restrictions then we shall have a tremendouslyincreasedconsumptionof petrol.
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There has been a very considerablyincreasedconsumption.
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She estimates, supposing the additional sugar were made available to take the ration off altogether, that there would he anincreasedconsumptionof 300,000 tons.
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Thisincreasedconsumptionis due largely to the substitution of hardwood for scarce softwood to the greatest possible extent.
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My judgment is that advertising does not lead toincreasedconsumption.
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He seems to be arguing forincreasedconsumption, increased public expenditure and increased investment.
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The position this winter will be very much more serious owing to theincreasedconsumption.
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