Collocations withexpansion
These are words often used in combination withexpansion.
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aggressive expansion
Its aggressive expansion in neighbouring countries is doing nothing to further this aim.
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ambitious expansion
I should also like to mention the museum's ambitious expansion plans.
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campus expansion
It is currently undergoing campus expansion and upgrading of facilities.
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clonal expansion
In peach growing areas, increases in resistance levels could therefore result from advantageous genes spreading through a panmictic population and clonal expansion.
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colonial expansion
Numbers due to large genetically homogeneous population sizes are different from those due to colonial expansion and assimilation.
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constant expansion
Even before it opened, city officials and the public looked forward to constant expansion of the system.
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continual expansion
Temporarily, because of economic difficulties, there has not been that continual expansion.
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continued expansion
Those who favour the continued expansion of population seem to regard the maximization of human numbers as a goal in itself.
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continuing expansion
The same sort of process governed the continuing expansion of the city in subsequent periods: types gradually evolving, becoming established and proliferating.
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continuous expansion
Accordingly, the basic growth mechanism is a continuous expansion of varieties in the sector of high-tech capital goods.
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dramatic expansion
Subsequently, there has been a dramatic expansion in the production and export of processed wood.
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economic expansion
It was written in years of extraordinary economic expansion and revolutionary turmoil.
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enormous expansion
The exclusive presence of a six-layered cortex in the dorsal pallium of mammals and its enormous expansion during evolution has long intrigued many scientists.
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excessive expansion
He says that there was excessive expansion of the economy over about two years.
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expansion draft
This decision marked the first time in expansion history that leagues were required to share expansion revenue or provide players for another league's expansion draft.
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expansion franchise
The team was founded as an expansion franchise in 1997, and played their first game during the 19981999 season.
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expansion joint
The expansion joint hinges provide for angular movement and will resist pressure thrust forces.
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expansion module
The query expansion module uses different kinds of semantic links, together with frequency data, to find related terms.
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expansion of agriculture
The spatial expansion of agriculture is determined by what farmers can earn from clearing forest compared to other income sources.
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expansion of tourism
Dramatic growth in private and informal sector constructionrelated industries has been rivalled only by the expansion of tourism.
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expansion pack
The 2 million unit sales were enough to spawn an expansion pack and several sequels to the game.
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expansion port
However, future applications may be hindered by rigidity of the expansion port access lumen, which cannot accommodate instruments and articles with irregular shapes.
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expansion project
The 'most suspect ' of these ' foreign enterprises ', the creation of new taxes for the expansion project would introduce an ' infinite variety ' of 'contentions ' among the inhabitants of the city.
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expansion team
He led the team in hits, (154) stolen bases (15), runs scored (62), and his.310 batting average set an expansion team record.
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expansion valve
Namely, the concept is composed of a condenser, a compressor, an expansion valve, and an evaporator.
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expansion velocity
Ions in these groups have different average expansion velocity and longitudinal velocity spread.
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explosive expansion
It is interface technology more than anything else that triggered such an explosive expansion: a click on the mouse is all users need to traverse links across the world.
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fiscal expansion
In this case the costs of a fiscal expansion for domestic residents are completely offset by the gains, with no effect on consumption.
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future expansion
Perhaps a future expansion of the model could attempt to encompass apraxia fully.
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geographical expansion
It seems likely that just as the movement's localism constrained geographical expansion, so its rootedness in the culture of workplace association circumscribed its social appeal.
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gradual expansion
As regeneration progressed, there was a gradual expansion of the visual field.
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imperial expansion
Imperial expansion brought with it, then, a clearer forging of national identity.
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industrial expansion
Entry rates for 1941-42 were extremely high as the demand for war production spurred industrial expansion.
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major expansion
It is most unlikely that there will be any future major expansion in grass drying.
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massive expansion
The author also identifies post-war disquiet with modernist architecture as a factor underlying preoccupation with the massive expansion of housing during the 1930s.
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modest expansion
Still, a modest expansion of day-care provision was projected to allow women to work, thus averting the feared shortage of labour in the industrial sector.
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monetary expansion
The sources of the problem are internal : controlled prices, monetary expansion, and corruption.
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pace of expansion
Yet the pace of expansion of out-of-centre retail developments shows no signs of slacking.
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period of expansion
The 1970s were a period of expansion in the care of elderly people.
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planned expansion
In addition, the government has recognised that this planned expansion will require commensurate expansion of the childcare workforce.
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proposed expansion
In the latter case, one can expect the proposed expansion to depend crucially on the interplanetary magnetic field conditions.
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rapid expansion
The rapid expansion of the private sector into these areas is unlikely to benefit the bulk of the country's elders.
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recent expansion
Hypotheses of mutation-drift equilibrium were rejected, thereby suggesting a recent expansion in population size.
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significant expansion
To start with, the nation's anti-government culture influenced both politicians and citizens to resist any significant expansion of federal government.
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steady expansion
Another central feature of post-war economic development was the steady expansion of the public sector.
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subsequent expansion
Second, there were quite striking differences in contraction and subsequent expansion of import volumes.
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sustained expansion
The forging of multilateral relations has not led to sustained expansion, and the cultural, social and human partnership is highly inadequate.
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territorial expansion
The territorial expansion of economic activity was accompanied by the emergence of an increasingly dense network of interstate collaboration in matters of financial regulation.
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thermal expansion
The mechanical stresses occur as a result of thermal expansion of the metal at the metal-glass boundary.
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tissue expansion
Tissue expansion is used when there is insufficient tissue after mastectomy to create the desired size and shape of each breast in a single stage.
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tremendous expansion
Pressure on land was practically unknown until the tremendous expansion of coffee plantations in the 1850s and 1860s.
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unlimited expansion
It is said that floating is not a painless cure—that it will not enable us to embark on unlimited expansion, ignoring the exchange rate.
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unprecedented expansion
The unforeseen and unprecedented expansion in student numbers in the 1995–96 academic year changed that.
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vast expansion
In addition to global market forces, the vast expansion of state power has greatly influenced mobility in the twentieth century.
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