burst of activity

collocation in English

meaningsofburstandactivity

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burst
noun[C]
uk
/bɜːst/us
/bɝːst/
UK
the act of breaking open so that what is inside ...
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activity
noun
uk
/ækˈtɪv.ə.ti/us
/ækˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/
the situation in which a lot of things are happening or people are ...
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(Definition ofburstandactivityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There are some early prescriptions and musings, but the advent of sound on film occasioned the firstburstofactivityin the 1930s.
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The curve indicates that this peak is due to a smallburstofactivityfollowing a short period when the activity was a little less than it might have been.
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Many of these performances left much to be desired, but now, twenty-five years on, there has been anotherburstofactivity, with several new recordings of a much higher standard.
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At the start of the first approach of each series there was aburstofactivitythat tended to persist during the remainder of the movement.
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Occupancy rates are so high, that when hospitals do get aburstofactivitythey can't cope.
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This had all the advantages of having people there for the short-termburstofactivity; and then they were free to move on elsewhere.
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They are trying to reduce waiting lists by treating more patients through a short-termburstofactivity.
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Thisburstofactivityis largely due to the fact that at last the workers are demanding that something should be done.
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It would be reasonable to assume that, in the year following such aburstofactivity, fourth round licensees had relatively little exploration work which they wish to undertake immediately.
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Topics of scientific research are like living organisms which start with aburstofactivity, attain maturity and then quite rapidly wither away, to be replaced by new topics.
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In the long view it is a steady effort over a period of years, and not a sudden, franticburstofactivity—which may have been inadequately planned—which counts.
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On-cells show aburstofactivityimmediately preceding nociceptive input, and are theorized to be contributing to the excitatory drive.
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Some systems refresh every row in aburstofactivityinvolving all rows every 64 ms.
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During sleep these spindles are seen in the brain as aburstofactivityimmediately following muscle twitching.
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There was aburstofactivityto get things ready in time.
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Burstofactivityin patterns of behaviors occur through coupled oscillators using pulsatile signals, better known as pulse-coupled oscillators.
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After theburstofactivitythe blood flow to the cerebral cortex in the area affected is decreased for two to six hours.
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He realizes that the dreams were true, and in a manicburstofactivity, paints over all the mirrors in the apartment.
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In a finalburstofactivity, he amended the meeting's concluding resolution on foreign relations to reflect his conviction that imperial conferences were consultative not policy-making bodies.
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Conversely, long-distance cortical-cortical connectivity would be decreased because its development depends on spatiotemporally coherent bursts of activity.
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