marked lack
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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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(Definition ofmarkedandlack-offrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In contrast, however, there is amarkedlackof research on the effects of the economic containment policy.
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This dual marginalisation of being female and also nonparticipant in capitalism (often without income or on low income) is also explored here with amarkedlackof self-conscious polemic.
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In the policies of the banks there is amarkedlackof uniformity as between different parts of the country.
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They have had one common characteristic—amarkedlackof success and lack of response.
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In general those bodies have shown amarkedlackof enthusiasm for the proposal.
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There certainly has been amarkedlackof investment in the steel industry, particularly in the period before nationalisation.
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I should also like to suggest that there was a verymarkedlackof sufficient steel and of sufficient labour.
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The chief characteristic of that relationship was amarkedlackof change.
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Indeed, there was amarkedlackof bitterness, for which we should be grateful.
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There is amarkedlackof sanitary accommodation.
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Despite, or because of, the enormous length of the documentation before us, there is amarkedlackof precision about the content of the budget.
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There was amarkedlackof further specialised training once in post.
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Employment structures have been dominated by coal and other basic industries, with amarkedlackof the service sector engine of regeneration.
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There were amarkedlackof significant poets until the 8th century.
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Age plays a role too; children under 5 years old demonstrate amarkedlackof delayed gratification ability and most commonly seek immediate gratification.
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The new club has had amarkedlackof success, however.
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