increasing tendency
collocation in Englishmeaningsofincreaseandtendency
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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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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 ofincreaseandtendencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Undoubtedly, they are on the rise, due to theincreasingtendencyto perform caesarean sections.
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However, during the eighteenth century there was anincreasingtendencyto think about history by means of the linear model.
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This has led to anincreasingtendencyto emphasise the inseparability of material and form in much microsound-oriented computer music.
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These changing figures seem to reflect the community's rising trust in the doctor and the parents'increasingtendencyto invite him to attend their sick children.
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Its unconstrained growth is thus probably a consequence of its tolerance of a wide range of environmental quality andincreasingtendencyto migrate within and between host plants.
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Elbers (1988) suggested that this age difference reflects anincreasingtendencytoward precision in language - an effort to capture one's conceptual or perceptual experience as closely as possible.
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Particularly encouraging has been theincreasingtendencyto look at particular musical genres, formations, etc., as part of the whole musical field.
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This picture is complicated by theincreasingtendencyto question the traditional belief that watershed protection values provided by primary forest are unambiguously positive.
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Another disturbing trend is anincreasingtendencyfor development spending to be in the form of 'monuments', although this is not a phenomenon that can be easily quantified.
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Some of the increase, the author notes later, was produced by theincreasingtendencyto counter-sue, or for other neighbours and relatives to sue in their turn.
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But the post-1998 time trend suggests that, in each subsequent year (beyond 1998), there was anincreasingtendencyto violate that limit.
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In this country there has been anincreasingtendencyfor people to go on to it.
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There is anincreasingtendencyto use the green for parking.
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I am against theincreasingtendencyto impose on doctors duties which are not strictly medical.
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There has been anincreasingtendencytowards environmental pollution.
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There has been anincreasingtendencyto remove words and substitute symbols.
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There has been anincreasingtendencyto break down secrecy.
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