major reservoir

collocation in English

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major
adjective
uk
/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us
/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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reservoir
noun[C]
uk
/ˈrez.ə.vwɑːr/us
/ˈrez.ɚ.vwɑːr/
a place for storing liquid, especially a natural or artificial lake providing water for a city or ...
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(Definition ofmajorandreservoirfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, ruminants appear to be themajorreservoirfor this bacterium.
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Themajorreservoirfor the organism is infected humans.
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Municipal authorities built most of themajorreservoirsystems and much of the infrastructure of the water industry over many decades.
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Not only is there the oilfield—which they believed existed—there is a second, deeper,majorreservoirof oil.
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I suggest that the siting of thismajorreservoirwould be a good matter to go to such a commission.
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Therefore, all those who are upset aboutmajorreservoirschemes should think very hard indeed when voicing their objections.
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Construction began in 1909 on amajorreservoir.
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The organism'smajorreservoirin companion animals is within domestic cats and dogs.
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Trichophyton mentagrophytes has amajorreservoirin rodents, but can also infect pet rabbits, dogs and horses.
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Domestic intermediate hosts (cattle, sheep, goats and buffaloes) are major reservoirs for the disease in humans.
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The obtained data thus suggest at least two major reservoirs, one in the mantle and one in the continental crust.
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I understand that the levels of major reservoirs are somewhat lower than normal but are not giving any cause for concern.
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The journal demonstrated that there are conflicts already at some of our major reservoirs.
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They range from sinking boreholes, to the construction of local pipeline transfer schemes, to the building of major reservoirs.
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These include sinking boreholes, the construction of local pipeline transfer schemes and the building of major reservoirs.
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What would happen, for instance, if some of our major reservoirs were destroyed and there was a water famine in some of our big cities and industrial centres?
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Individual reservoir capacities and percent of full are given for the major reservoirs.
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There are 4 major reservoirs located around the village to aid the agriculture.
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The state has more than one thousand major reservoirs, of which the largest two hundred have a combined capacity of over 41000000acre.ft km3.
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He built 1470 reservoirs the highest number by any ruler in the history - repaired 165 dams, 3910 canals, 163 major reservoirs, and 2376 mini reservoirs.
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