Collocations withopportunity
These are words often used in combination withopportunity.
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abundant opportunity
There should be abundant opportunity to discuss this in the future.
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adequate opportunity
There is now widespread agreement that reading disability in children of normal intelligence who have had adequate opportunity for reading instruction is language-based.
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ample opportunity
This style of interactive policy implementation gives ample opportunity for entering into co-productions with relevant social actors.
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arbitrage opportunity
There are others who could borrow and go short, but they're not smart enough to know that the specific arbitrage opportunity is available.
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economic opportunity
The paper will then proceed to elaborate the use of multiple nationality to diminish commercial risk and seek economic opportunity.
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educational opportunity
An interpretation consistent with the results below suggests that a woman's right to vote is not a sufficient condition leading to equal educational opportunity.
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employment opportunity
Nixon served as chair for a committee organized to oversee equal employment opportunity in government contracting.
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enormous opportunity
This presents educators with an enormous opportunity for innovation.
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entrepreneurial opportunities
However, an undeveloped market restricted entrepreneurial opportunities and income.
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equal opportunity employer
It is important for any public sector employer to be an equal opportunity employer, but that is especially important in the criminal justice system.
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equality of opportunity
There is a need to locate specific learning difficulties in the broad context of inclusion if equality of opportunity is to become a reality.
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excellent opportunity
This provides an excellent opportunity to investigate the relationship between the outcome of an infection and the immune response.
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exciting opportunity
We believe that the inclusion of time-varying predictors in hazard models represents an exciting opportunity for two reasons.
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extraordinary opportunity
It has also been an extraordinary opportunity to encounter other practitioners with whom we share the same values of creation and creativity regarding our craft.
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golden opportunity
Instead, it is underedited and overpriced: the publishers missed a golden opportunity.
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great opportunity
A great opportunity was lost for meaningful and thoughtful reflection on healthcare reform and why we need it.
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greatest opportunity
From these data, a converse hypothesis might be advanced : children with the smallest phonemic repertoires will have the greatest opportunity to evidence change.
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historic opportunity
It is an historic opportunity to unite the whole continent.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
increased opportunity
Occupational pension scheme membership had remained stable over the period from 1987 to 1993-4, in spite of increased opportunity to join a scheme.
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increasing opportunity
Increasing opportunity cost of labor has already resulted in rising trends in herbicide use and the associated environmental consequences.
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inequality of opportunity
Accordingly, while future persons will face inequality of opportunity, this is clearly not a case of unjust discrimination.
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investment opportunity
It is, of course, difficult to predict how these and future changes in the investment opportunity set will influence surplus distribution in the future.
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job opportunity
Able-bodied family heads, with some exceptions, would be required to accept a "training or suitable job opportunity," or lose their portion of the family's grant.
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lack of opportunity
It includes positive and negative items describing the perception of the future in terms of success, darkness, lack of opportunity and faith.
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limited opportunity
Given the limited opportunity, and no increase in average effect, we believe that synergistic epistasis is unlikely to explain our increased estimate of mutation rate.
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lost opportunity
This might be seen as a lost opportunity.
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lucrative opportunity
You can hear the civil war internally as our lucrative opportunity to make the album of our career slithered through our hands.
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marketing opportunity
The tax-free shops have risen to the challenge and created a marketing opportunity, as we knew they would.
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marvellous opportunity
They have a marvellous opportunity to make progress.
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mating opportunity
In the tropics the optimal male strategy involves devoting more effort to parenting and less to seeking mating opportunities.
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missed opportunity
This is by no means a fatal flaw, i but it is a missed opportunity.
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networking opportunity
To provide a networking opportunity for staff in the borough who are interested in health issues.
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numerous opportunities
Growth in the organic sector has provided numerous opportunities for all agents along the supply chain, from organic producers and handlers, to retailers.
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once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
Let me repeat, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
perfect opportunity
The new observatory provided a perfect opportunity for the exercise of his penchant for spectacular instrumentation.
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promotional opportunity
Exactly what arrangements are to be made for the loss of promotional opportunity in the railway industry if traffic is lost from rail to road?
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rare opportunity
One has the rare opportunity to prise underneath the 'official mind' of patriotism, and to gauge public reaction through press reports and periodical articles.
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recreational opportunity
Echaurren's writings show that he saw the night largely as a security problem; the minister seems to have seen it as a recreational opportunity.
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restricted opportunity
One problem with this argument is that a person who lacks talent may also claim to have a restricted opportunity range.
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scoring opportunity
The sides were evenly matched thereafter with both sets of backs depriving the other of a scoring opportunity.
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splendid opportunity
I had squandered a splendid opportunity.
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tremendous opportunity
This is important because of the high burden of disease among inmates and the tremendous opportunity to provide screening and treatment in correctional facilities.
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unequal opportunity
The implications of the principle thus depend on what the non-responsible causes of unequal opportunity are taken to be.
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unique opportunity
A unique opportunity has been seized to gather information on the industrial landscape of shore whaling.
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unlimited opportunity
There is virtually unlimited opportunity for misunderstanding through failed communication, so substantial effort is required to ensure effective communication.
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unparalleled opportunity
This corpus thus provides an unparalleled opportunity to compare the linguistic input to a diaspora community with the language spoken there today.
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unprecedented opportunity
By joining revolutionary organizations young women had an unprecedented opportunity to finesse family pressures to marry and produce children.
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valuable opportunity
To some extent, therefore, a valuable opportunity has been missed.
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vocational opportunity
One development which gives me special satisfaction is the exciting growth in the range of vocational opportunities available to women.
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wasted opportunity
This is useful, but it is also a wasted opportunity, for much more could have been made of it by an author who had mastered naval administration.
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window of opportunity
Specifically, a delay of the lexical selection process would provide a window of opportunity for the feedback of activation from translation equivalents.
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wonderful opportunity
It would be a wonderful opportunity to educate politicians and industrialists on economic concepts such as externalities and intergenerational equity!
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