slow erosion

collocation in English

meaningsofslowanderosion

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slow
adjective
uk
/sləʊ/us
/sloʊ/
moving, happening, or doing something without ...
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erosion
noun[U]
uk
/ɪˈrəʊ.ʒən/us
/ɪˈroʊ.ʒən/
the fact of soil, stone, etc. being gradually damaged and removed by the waves, rain, ...
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(Definition ofslowanderosionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Regrettable though that would be, it would be far better to do that than to allow a furtherslowerosionof the exchange rate.
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I have talked about theslowerosionof civil liberties.
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They mean that we must continue to campaign because there isslowerosionof those powers.
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The alternative to planned action along these lines isslowerosion, which can only mean disaster.
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There has been aslowerosionof teachers' pay and facilities in schools.
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It is lost by theslowerosionof civil liberties, usually at times of economic distress or war.
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The responses to my inquiries refer toslowerosionrather than dramatic closures and to lower basic standards.
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This uncertainty which it should have been the object of the legislation to end will continue and can only mean aslowerosionof the port's prospects.
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These streams have deep ravines and often waterfalls where hard rock layersslowerosion; they are said to be "hanging valleys".
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Sustainable techniques attempt toslowerosionthrough the use of cover crops in order to build organic matter in the soil.
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Fifty-eight breakwaters, built by 1992 toslowerosion, have captured the sand and significantly slowed its movement eastward.
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It has also been used by libertarians to warn aboutslowerosionof civil rights.
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Shade trees will raise the amount of infiltration andslowerosionof the soil.
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The thicker coating has aslowerosionrate, resulting in a life expectancy of approximately 25 years depending upon environmental conditions.
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The second millennium, however, also saw the beginning of aslowerosionof the pre-eminent position held by plants as sources of therapeutic effects.
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However, the loose composition of the island was subject toslowerosionthat eventually washed away the lighthouse in 1950.
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The natural stream at the bottom was subsequently channelized toslowerosion.
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The rush of water deepened the washout, but theslowerosionprotected downstream interests from the wall of water that would have resulted from a total dam collapse.
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