crumbling infrastructure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcrumbleandinfrastructure
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crumble
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈkrʌm.bəl/us/ˈkrʌm.bəl/
a sweet dish made from fruit covered in a mixture of flour, butter, and sugar rubbed together into small pieces, baked, and ...
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infrastructure
noun[C usually singular]
uk/ˈɪn.frəˌstrʌk.tʃər/us/ˈɪn.frəˌstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the basic systems and services, such as transport and power supplies, that a country or organization uses in order to ...
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That is £8 billion fewer for public services, schools, hospitals, investment in ourcrumblinginfrastructure, welfare protection, transport, and so on.
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Does he note that the editorial concedes that a debt burden would be bad for future generations, but so, too, would acrumblinginfrastructure?
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That is often the case as regards an old project which has acrumblinginfrastructure.
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It was introduced to meet exactly the sort of problems that we face now, namely, massive underinvestment and acrumblinginfrastructure.
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I want to see the introduction of some temporary schemes that utilise the unemployed, to deal with ourcrumblinginfrastructure, derelict land and vandalism.
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There are other examples where investment of this kind would arrest the decay in manufacturing and at the same time rescue thecrumblinginfrastructure.
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I propose to deal with two or three of the areas in which we are most concerned about the present state of ourcrumblinginfrastructure.
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The proposals for road charging and workplace parking will clearly tackle head on the problems of congestion and acrumblinginfrastructure.
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The burden imposed on industry bycrumblinginfrastructurecan certainly not be ignored.
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There should have been a firm decision to stimulate economic growth and reduce unemployment substantially by funding the restoration of our dilapidated local authority housing stock and ourcrumblinginfrastructure.
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London already has a higher than average proportion of public transport trips, but we cannot sustain and build on that with acrumblinginfrastructure.
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We need that money here at home for our owncrumblinginfrastructure.
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By the summer of 1976, the railroad receive state funding to rehabilitatecrumblinginfrastructurethat sorely needed fixing.
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