changing pattern

collocation in English

meaningsofchangingandpattern

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changing
adjective
uk
/ˈtʃeɪn.dʒɪŋ/us
/ˈtʃeɪn.dʒɪŋ/
in a state of ...
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pattern
noun
uk
/ˈpæt.ən/us
/ˈpæt̬.ɚn/
a particular way in which something is done, is organized, ...
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(Definition ofchangingandpatternfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofchanging pattern

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Changingpatternof pharmaceutical innovation; 2002.
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Further studies are needed to explain thischangingpattern.
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With a further increase in their real earnings, thechangingpatternof their expenditure continued.
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We are, it is said, in a savagelychangingpatternof disease.
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In trade data, more visible is the impact ofchangingpatternof consumption.
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So mobile systems, that is, systems with a dynamicallychangingpatternof communications, cannot be expressed.
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The cataract explosion: thechangingpatternof diagnoses of patients attending an ophthalmic outpatient department.
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Thechangingpatternof demographic and socioeconomic determinants of infant mortality can be divided into four sections.
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Figure 1 depicts more clearly thechangingpatternof the first-method contraceptive failure rates for different methods.
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Thechangingpatternof services may itself be one of the factors involved in the development of timid prosperity.
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The bulk of thechangingpatternof oil imports has been due to increased dependence on alternative energy imports.
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Table 8 therefore can be regarded as a reasonably accurate indication of thechangingpatternof reproduction.
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There is a developing andchangingpattern.
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It should consider thischangingpattern.
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We are dominated by achangingpattern.
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There is achangingpatternin flying.
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This shows thechangingpatternof trade.
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It has always been in achangingpattern.
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One of these is thechangingpatternof defence.
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Let us accept thechangingpatternof educational philosophy.
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The prime reason is thechangingpatternof occupational pensions.
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What are the problems of achangingpattern?
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What are the reasons for thechangingpatterntoday?
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