increasing quantity

collocation in English

meaningsofincreaseandquantity

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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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quantity
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈkwɒn.tə.ti/us
/ˈkwɑːn.t̬ə.t̬i/
the amount or number of something, especially that can ...
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(Definition ofincreaseandquantityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Increasingquantityis viewed as a destructive force in the development process, rather than as a productive one.
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They are broadcast inincreasingquantity.
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Municipal corporations of the developing countries are not able to handle theincreasingquantityof waste, which leads to uncollected waste on roads and other public places.
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Crucially, the new ideal of openly expressed sentiment was widespread, conveyed through anincreasingquantityof literature to an increasing readership, and it possessed a moral authority.
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I am, however, glad to see theincreasingquantityof home-produced beef.
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In any affluent society there is anincreasingquantityof money to be spent.
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We shall see anincreasingquantityof fuel oil becoming available.
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With the increasing number of donations, there is anincreasingquantityof blood products.
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Anincreasingquantityof milk is being produced which the milk boards can sell only at low prices for manufacture.
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What starts as a small quantity of stationery, by the nature of this operation becomes anincreasingquantityof stationery.
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As has been said, it is essential that theincreasingquantityof legislation should not be allowed to diminish its quality.
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Is it not possible to produce some additional incentive for consumers during the summer months so that thisincreasingquantityof coal can be removed?
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Goods and crops, mainly sugar cane, were carried with efficacy and inincreasingquantity.
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Byincreasingquantity, thickness and closeness, a darker area will result.
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For one thing anincreasingquantityof imported beef is not frozen but merely chilled, and when beef is merely chilled it goes into circulation much more quickly.
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However, with the introduction of rail transportation and steamships,increasingquantityof post quickly made the building insufficient.
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These trends mean that anincreasingquantityof produce need not physically pass through the central market, though the operations of buying and selling would continue to be centred there.
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We cannot look, as we have in the past, to any large quantity, still less anincreasingquantity, of animal feeding-stuffs of a concentrated character coming from overseas.
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This has consequences in mineral exploration, for mine depth, the energy intensity of mining, and theincreasingquantityof waste rock.
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