serious deficiency

collocation in English

meaningsofseriousanddeficiency

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serious
adjective
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/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us
/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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deficiency
noun[C or U]
uk
/dɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/us
/dɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/
a state of not having, or not having enough, of something that ...
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(Definition ofseriousanddeficiencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is aseriousdeficiencysince, basically, the coagulation cascade is a series of enzymatic reactions that are amplified and accelerated at each step.
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Listeners might like to know that it lasts just under 15 minutes, the lack of printed timings being this production's oneseriousdeficiency.
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Two thousand seven hundred tons was allocated to complete an order placed in 1947, when there was aseriousdeficiencyin timber supplies.
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It is clear that there is aseriousdeficiencyin certain fields of industry.
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That is aseriousdeficiencyin the regulations.
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Is not theseriousdeficiencyof occupational pension schemes that most of them do not carry transferability rights?
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This is aseriousdeficiency, for it means that in a lengthy period of hostilities this country will have no capability of military expansion.
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There is aseriousdeficiency, in that it does not require companies to undertake an impact survey of the results of refineries on the environment?
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Is it not aseriousdeficiencythat the young workers scheme, deliberately introduced to reduce young people's wages, has no training element in it?
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That is aseriousdeficiencywhen we are discussing a new form of sentence.
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In those circumstances, the single incident would trigger an assessment to establish whether there was a pattern ofseriousdeficiency.
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We all know that at the outbreak of the war there was aseriousdeficiencyin this preparation and training.
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This country has a continuing and veryseriousdeficiencyin its balance of payments.
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As we know, thatseriousdeficiencycontinues from year to year.
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There is a veryseriousdeficiencyin the financial accounts of all local educational authorities caused by this deficiency in this particular form of grant.
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That was a veryseriousdeficiencyin his speech.
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Without such a transfer there would be aseriousdeficiencyto the north and west of the area.
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It has mainly occurred in the very large estates of over £1,000,000 in the aggregate, and in these aseriousdeficiencyhas manifested itself.
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Any continuance or extension of strikes, and any further increase in the cost of living must result in a mostseriousdeficiencyon railway working.
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Oneseriousdeficiencywas the sending of a modern fleet to war without its own long-range radar eyes.
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