later stage

collocation in English

meaningsoflaterandstage

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later
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈleɪ.tər/
us
/ˈleɪ.t̬ɚ/
happening at a time in the future, or after the time you ...
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stage
noun[C]
uk
/steɪdʒ/
us
/steɪdʒ/
a part of an activity or a period ...
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(Definition oflaterandstagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflater stage

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The presence of sympathetic cells has been reported as taking place at a muchlaterstagein development.
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In most other countries, such disturbing thoughts enter legislators' minds only at a muchlaterstageof the electoral cycle.
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The book would be most suitable for those at the early graduate student orlaterstageof their career, working within neuroscience (broadly defined).
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Like native children, ethnic minority children will first learn the meaning of words through perception and at alaterstagethrough linguistic information.
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However, the rest of the book is concerned only with free pronouns, suggesting that this section was added at alaterstage.
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The stages may overlap, in that further evolution of one stage may continue to complexify after evolution of alaterstagehas commenced.
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Risk in this case relates to the probability of the necessary introduction of major design change at alaterstage.
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Clear expositions at the beginning of the lesson helped to avoid the need for troubleshooting at alaterstage.
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The status for an event star ts out :alive, but will switch to :inactive should the event be "undone" at somelaterstage.
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However, these observations in mice may not have much practical application as human infections are usually diagnosed at alaterstage.
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Phonemes and features become the basic units at alaterstageof development.
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Extrapolating from these observations, use of intensifiers with predicate adjectives could be taken as evidence for alaterstagein the delexicalization process.
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Structures specific to a particular language are however not evidenced until alaterstage.
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Similarly, adding lexical entries at alaterstageis also relatively simple, since these will frequently inherit most of their information from another entry.
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Swelling of the slug mantle, indicative of thelaterstageof infection, became apparent approximately two weeks after application of the nematodes.
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And, what is crucial, structures may coexist at a given interim stage that do not coexist at alaterstage.
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Sometimes a referral to the case record form or a separate protocol, which was going to be submitted at alaterstage, was made.
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Now, we must ask ourselves if it is indeed possible to get from the earlier stage to thelaterstagesketched above.
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