marked improvement
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmarkedandimprovement
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marked
adjective
uk/mɑːkt/us/mɑːrkt/
A marked change or difference in behaviour or in a situation is very obvious ...
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improvement
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/us/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/
an occasion when something gets better or when you make ...
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(Definition ofmarkedandimprovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmarked improvement
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Six months later, echocardiography showed amarkedimprovement.
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There was amarkedimprovementin patients' orthostatic symptoms.
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In our experiments, amarkedimprovement, as reflected in a return to values characteristic of uninfected animals was observed by 7 days after treatment.
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None of them produced anymarkedimprovementin the goodness of fit.
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This behaviour suggests that the economists who dedicate themselves professionally to risk analysis detected amarkedimprovementin the country's fundamentals.
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There was amarkedimprovementof fatigue between day 0 and day 35 in both group, but no difference between groups.
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The most striking finding of our studies has been themarkedimprovementin the living standards between cohorts separated by just 12 years.
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Therefore, from a performance practice standpoint, the new implementation represents amarkedimprovementover the original.
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Amarkedimprovementin results was observed in pronunciation and a smaller one, not statistically significant, in fluency and vocabulary use.
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From 1860 there was amarkedimprovementwhich accelerated after 1870, and by 1890 male illiteracy declined to 3.6 per cent.
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The single bootstrap performed badly on average, but it showed amarkedimprovementfor a larger number of clusters per treatment arm.
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In the early 1860s amarkedimprovementcan be observed in the quality of food distributed to the prisoners.
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The verbal description of categories resulted in amarkedimprovementin the patients.
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Even a modest effort just outside the borders of the ranch would, however, result in amarkedimprovementin the situation.
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Under his leadership, as even critics agree, there was amarkedimprovementin municipal services.
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A dual-chamber pacemaker was amarkedimprovementon a single-chamber pacemaker, but the study included few patients.
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There was amarkedimprovementin concordance between the expert assessor and care staff with respect to judgements of dementia.
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This latter patient showedmarkedimprovementimmediately after balloon dilation, with the arterial oxygen saturation rising from 60 to 90%.
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Indeed, male illiteracy showed amarkedimprovementfrom 1860, but although female illiteracy had begun to improve from 1850 it was still high in comparison.
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