adult population

collocation in English

meaningsofadultandpopulation

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adult
adjective
uk
/ˈæd.ʌlt/
us
/ˈæd.ʌlt/
grown to full size ...
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
us
/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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(Definition ofadultandpopulationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Over the last years, percutaneous mitral valvotomy has largely replaced surgical intervention in the treatment of mitral stenosis in theadultpopulation.
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The most commonly used measure was the percent of theadultpopulationunemployed (n=63).
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There is little expertise on combined treatment approaches (psychological and pharmacological) in theadultpopulation.
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This is remarkable in the light of the fact that it currently attacks about 2% of theadultpopulation.
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The youngest segment of theadultpopulationis therefore the most under-represented in the personal networks of older people.
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And 39 per cent of theadultpopulation, as many as 225 million people, remains illiterate.
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These percentages compare to 13.0 per cent and 11.7 per cent for theadultpopulation.
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The literature addressing the effects of depression and anxiety on sleep in the generaladultpopulationis voluminous.
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These findings are incontestable evidence that on some major issues voters were more conservative than the entireadultpopulationin 1996.
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Even in theadultpopulation, the evidence does not extend to the natural history of combined disorders, and this includes outcome.
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This is representative of 75 % of the nationaladultpopulation.
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It is impossible to disentangle them using only data on changes in theadultpopulation.
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During a 3-month period, nearly 30% of theadultpopulationreported dyspepsia.
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Reductions in g only become important when it is not possible to impose these high mortalities on theadultpopulation(fig. 5d).
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Only an unusually muscular state could push 3 percent of itsadultpopulationinto the criminal justice system.
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These changes in the average height of children were mirrored by changes in the average heights of theadultpopulation.
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The strongest correlation is for the percentage of theadultpopulationbelonging to nature and ecology groups (0.59).
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To our knowledge, correlation between the results of these assays has not yet been reported in a solelyadultpopulation.
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To our knowledge, it is the first study to compare these methods in a strictlyadultpopulation.
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