successive period
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsuccessiveandperiod
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successive
adjective[before noun]
uk/səkˈses.ɪv/us/səkˈses.ɪv/
happening one after the other without ...
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period
noun[C]
uk/ˈpɪə.ri.əd/us/ˈpɪr.i.əd/
a length ...
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(Definition ofsuccessiveandperiodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Much more bacteria were isolated from the tonsillar swab and for a longersuccessiveperiodthan from the nasal swab.
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For eachsuccessiveperiodthere were more additional men classed as not able than were classed as able-bodied.
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Since any errors in extrapolation cumulate over eachsuccessiveperiodof the life cycle, these mistakes can cause first-order problems in the solution.
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Eachsuccessiveperiodof 52 weeks constitutes a "levy period".
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Subsequent financial years shall be eachsuccessiveperiodof twelve months.
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Eachsuccessiveperiodof 52 weeks constitutes a levy period.
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He wi11 also be able to exercise this right once during his second year, once during the third and fourth years, and once during everysuccessiveperiodof two years.
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Seeds with long germination times could pass through successive periods of exposure and burial as chowchillas and other vertebrates repeatedly visited an area.
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The course was divided into four successive periods of three to four weeks for the purpose of data analysis.
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The values were plotted against the number of females recovered in the five successive periods up to 23 weeks.
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For reasons of computer time and costs the simulation was stopped when the differences in successive periods became small.
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Note that inter-period constraints are permitted between successive periods only.
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Furthermore, there are temporal constraints among instantiations of program variables in successive periods; such relationships cannot be captured by simple linear programming models.
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In the first experiment, a difference of 20 % was detected between the two successive periods with basically no mortality during the second period.
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First, since the money wage is fixed for two successive periods, it is a kind of average of the optimal one.
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Capital flows are defined by the difference between foreign assets in two successive periods.
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If one agent defects, all agents will return to the closed-loop equilibrium strategies for all successive periods.
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By allowing the conidiospores to grow for three successive periods of 5 days even very low initial virus concentrations had time to reproduce to a detectable level.
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Successive periods of abandonment of agricultural fields and pastures and the expansion of land under preserve protection have resulted in a mosaic of secondary vegetation and old-growth forest.
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Colonial bureaucratic corruption is then examined in two successive periods of dictatorial power : that exerted by captain generals (1833-68) and that prevailing in colonial civil war (1868-78).
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