specific area

collocation in English

meaningsofspecificandarea

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specific
adjective
uk
/spəˈsɪf.ɪk/
us
/spəˈsɪf.ɪk/
relating to one thing and not ...
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area
noun
uk
/ˈeə.ri.ə/
us
/ˈer.i.ə/
a particular part of a place, piece of land, ...
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(Definition ofspecificandareafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofspecific area

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Prior to the first session, we asked each participant to think of aspecificareaof their playing or performance they wanted to improve.
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Creative ideas come from a deep well of experience and training in aspecificarea, whether it's music, painting, business, or science.
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The planets also exert their influence omnidirectionally, with no way of directing the influence of each planet over aspecificarea.
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Another morespecificareawhere standard analysis does not seem to be capable of reproducing certain stylized facts is that of financial markets.
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The instructor should try to focus on a veryspecificareaso that students can get to know it well.
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Unfortunately, the authors were unable to make evidence-based recommendations regarding the treatment of bereaved persons, other than for the veryspecificareaof bereavement-related depression.
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The rest of the chapter describes a set of tasks that are appropriate for systematically deducing a child'sspecificarea(s) of difficulty.
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The results obtained indicate that molecular analysis of the mumps virus is a useful method for evaluation of viral circulation in aspecificarea.
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The conclusion shows how a more nuanced understanding of structures, institutions, agency, habits, and deliberation, can inform research into aspecificarea, namely the analysis of labour markets.
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Roymans' article is an original and valuable contribution to an interpretation of the 'cultural biography' of the landscape of aspecificareaby combining archaeological and folkloric evidence.
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Nevertheless, this book will be of interest to some scholars withspecificareaexpertise, as well as to readers engaged in policy debates about land reform and resource use.
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Although the coat formed a barrier that enclosed the embryo, the barrier was normally breached only in aspecificareawhere unique cell-wall characteristics made the break probable.
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The importance of defining thespecificareaof cognitive functioning impacted by chemotherapy is to direct and inform appropriate interventions that may help those cancer patients who have undergone chemotherapy.
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Taking into account that evidence is intended to influence a certainspecificareaof public health, the type of evidence must be fit to the problem at hand.
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This allows the distribution of organics or mineral types within small clumps of materials to be determined simply by selecting thespecificareafrom which to gather the spectral data.
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We must therefore defend the permanence of a social group living in aspecificareaof the city when that area is about to undergo a process of physical renovation.
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That is now one of the priorities we must address and try to achieve some progress in thisspecificarea.
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Each of these organisations concerned itself with aspecificareaof activity and, in our opinion, the results have been positive.
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I shall refer to one veryspecificarea: the environment.
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