separate instances

collocation in English

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separate
adjective
uk
/ˈsep.ər.ət/us
/ˈsep.ɚ.ət/
existing or happening independently or in a different ...
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instance
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪn.stəns/us
/ˈɪn.stəns/
a particular situation, event, or fact, especially an example of something that ...
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(Definition ofseparateandinstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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On the other hand, where identical discrepancies occur in the analysis of separate instances of identical wording, each instance is counted separately.
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First, the class system supports the modular decomposition of functionality, partitioning each operation into separate instances for each building block.
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Any programming solution that reappears in separate instances maybe identified as a 'pattern', and be subsequently re-used as a unit.
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This idiom for combining signatures is roughly equivalent to passing two separate instances of the same structure to an algorithm, the mechanism that we used above.
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They need be no more than, for example, two separate instances of loitering near shopping bags.
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There are obviously two separate instances where my concern could arise.
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These were two separate instances.
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There were two separate instances.
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All of these are separate instances.
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He pleaded guilty to 15 separate instances of money laundering in which he pocketed more than $100,000.
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This can either be achieved by using multiple separate machines to run the game or by running multiple separate instances of the game.
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Specifications are sometimes referred to as' counts' or separate instances of a particular offense which are connected to specific factual evidence.
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Investigators reported 46 separate instances of malicious outside interference before the culprit was identified.
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His initial prison sentences were due to separate instances of activist-related activity.
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The separate evolution of camera eyes in vertebrates and cephalopods (and insects, and many more, in as many as fifty separate instances), is an example of isomorphism.
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One part of the problem of universals is determining what it is for two tokens (or separate instances of something) to be of the same type.
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Separate instances of the channel in this case will be uncorrelated with one another, owing to the assumption that each of the scattered components fades independently.
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