limited opportunity

collocation in English

meaningsoflimitedandopportunity

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limited
adjective
uk
/ˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/us
/ˈlɪm.ɪ.t̬ɪd/
small in amount ...
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opportunity
noun
uk
/ˌɒp.əˈtʃuː.nə.ti/us
/ˌɑː.pɚˈtuː.nə.t̬i/
an occasion or situation that makes it possible to do something that you want to do or have to do, or the possibility of ...
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(Definition oflimitedandopportunityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflimited opportunity

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Given thelimitedopportunity, and no increase in average effect, we believe that synergistic epistasis is unlikely to explain our increased estimate of mutation rate.
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Care was taken to ensure experimental insects were fed from containers which would provide them withlimitedopportunityfor associative learning.
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This positioning is partly due to historical patterns of institutional and individual racism, discrimination, andlimitedopportunitystructures.
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Diversity and difference are thus erased, and there islimitedopportunityfor the recipient to represent visions of an alternative project.
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Most roles that therapy radiographers occupy havelimitedopportunityfor autonomy, and this may further explain some elements of dissatisfaction in the workforce.
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Due to the complexity of the plan, with 850 different corner conditions at angles such as 85° or 105°, there waslimitedopportunityfor repetition in the formwork.
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They havelimitedopportunityto grow crops that would complement the staple rice diet and thus improve family nutritional status.
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Mill's writings also suggest that his variant of utilitarianism can address the possibility of adaptation in the face oflimitedopportunity.
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Pitts noted that generally teachers are expected to meet the needs of all their students, but they are given onlylimitedopportunityto discover what these needs are.
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I agree that it is a verylimitedopportunity.
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He says that, in fact, increasing activity there gives only alimitedopportunityfor employment.
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So long as that is so, it is right that there should be only alimitedopportunityfor the electorate to express its opinion.
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Recently he has been moved into a larger room and is in contact with other foreign prisoners, with alimitedopportunityto take exercise.
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However, those mechanisms are normally afforded onlylimitedopportunityto work because asbestos waste has to be sealed in plastic bags to protect handlers.
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There is onlylimitedopportunityto build on brownfield land to control urban sprawl.
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In my view there has been only alimitedopportunityhere to voice the critical comments that we aired in our deliberations in committee.
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Formerly, many parents had alimitedopportunityto choose, depending on whether their children had been successful in the 11-plus examination.
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If we do not take advantage of whateverlimitedopportunitythat devaluation may bring, we shall be facing this problem again and again.
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It will be a verylimitedopportunity, but one which will meet the point.
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