unprecedented expansion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunprecedentedandexpansion
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unprecedented
adjective
uk/ʌnˈpres.ɪ.den.tɪd/us/ʌnˈpres.ə.den.t̬ɪd/
never having happened or existed in ...
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expansion
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪkˈspæn.ʃən/us/ɪkˈspæn.ʃən/
the increase of something in size, number, ...
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(Definition ofunprecedentedandexpansionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The unforeseen andunprecedentedexpansionin student numbers in the 1995–96 academic year changed that.
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The post-war period has witnessed anunprecedentedexpansionin the history of world trade.
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We have since invested more than £11 billion as part of anunprecedentedexpansionof early years provision.
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At a time when there is anunprecedentedexpansionin broadcasting opportunities, nobody wants to preclude decent.
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There has been anunprecedentedexpansionin higher education in the past 10 years, from 780,000 students in 1979 to over 1 million students now.
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They have led the way in theunprecedentedexpansionof higher education during the 1980s by improving their efficiency and increasing their enrolment of students.
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Further, there has been a rapid andunprecedentedexpansionof prosperity in the last 35 years.
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The cosmetics industry has in recent years gone throughunprecedentedexpansionand the current legislation no longer provides the necessary legal certainty.
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Over the past 10 years there has beenunprecedentedexpansion.
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It has presided over anunprecedentedexpansionin world-wide wealth creation.
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Primary school teachers are, of course, drawn predominantly from the training colleges, and we have responded to the needs of the situation through theunprecedentedexpansionof the training colleges.
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The enormous and, at the time,unprecedentedexpansionof output and wealth in the 19th century was associated with the even faster growth rate of trade.
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I think that most of those who have spoken have agreed that the universities and the rest of higher education have been through a period ofunprecedentedexpansion.
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As a result, the city is now going through a fervent period of renewal, rebuilding, andunprecedentedexpansion.
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The neighborhood is undergoingunprecedentedexpansion, much to the dismay of current residents, who shed a tear of nostalgia over the destruction of their childhood memories.
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Bates led anunprecedentedexpansionin appointments of women and minorities to state boards and commissions.
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