running parallel

collocation in English

meaningsofrunningandparallel

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running
adjective[after noun]
uk
/ˈrʌn.ɪŋ/us
/ˈrʌn.ɪŋ/
happening on a particular number of ...
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parallel
noun
uk
/ˈpær.ə.lel/us
/ˈper.ə.lel/
something very similar to something else, or a similarity between ...
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(Definition ofrunningandparallelfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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No lateroadmarginal ridge, but possible doublure suggested by a narrow furrowrunningparallelto the ventral margin and demarcating flattened marginal area.
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Two arms are indicated on the frontal side of the sculpture, firstrunningparallelto the torso, then flexing slightly inward.
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Is the light blue edgerunningparallelto the black one or the illusory light blue filling in the inner space?
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One student used experiences from her participation in a course in choral conducting, which wasrunningparallelwith the analysis teaching, as the basis for her diary.
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I regard this asrunningparallelto the other steps that we are taking to achieve the primacy of the police.
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What is to happen to these two different schemes, not onlyrunningparallelbut cutting across one another?
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In 1973, because there was to be a local government reorganisation in 1974, there were two authoritiesrunningparallel—a shadow authority and the new authority.
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However, other amendments to other legislation arerunningparallelwith this.
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Other developmentsrunningparallelto the new road scheme consist of residential, commercial, high-tech, leisure and public development.
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Runningparallelto those problems and across all rural areas — remote and less remote — are the current difficulties being experienced in farming and agriculture.
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Runningparallelmust be a long-term policy which ends bulk buying and frees cement and other industries from the perpetual political threat of interference.
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However,runningparallelto that, there has been a huge increase in point-to-point flights.
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Runningparallelto that development has been the growing tendency to divorce political action from the rule of law and to substitute violence for debate.
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Clearly, the new idea of pay for technical efficiency with,runningparallelto it, pay for disciplinary authority is on the right lines.
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I should be quite content with primary and junior schools and good secondary schools and university courses with, of course, the technical schoolsrunningparallel.
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So, to a large extent the two techniques arerunningparallel.
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While a disciplinary committee existed on a ship, at the same time, andrunningparallelto it, another type of legislation existed.
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Under this legislation, private operators will berunningparallelservices subject to withdrawal or alteration at whim.
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We need far more effective evaluation and reporting on activity, and fewer free-standing, short-term initiativesrunningparallelto mainstream services.
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