crucial stage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcrucialandstage
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crucial
adjective
uk/ˈkruː.ʃəl/us/ˈkruː.ʃəl/
extremely important ...
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stage
noun[C]
uk/steɪdʒ/us/steɪdʒ/
a part of an activity or a period ...
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(Definition ofcrucialandstagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcrucial stage
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The selection of sounds is acrucialstagein the compositional process.
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Our attention must therefore turn to a closer examination of the role of input during thiscrucialstageof language development.
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This in turn must affect acrucialstageof development as the student becomes a mature and independent thinker in her own right.
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Because microclimatic conditions in tropical-alpine environments are relatively extreme near the ground, the seedling phase might be thecrucialstagein plant life.
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We thus have a three-way triangular comparison of community, caregiver, and child across two different variables during acrucialstageof acquisition.
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Foreign observers regarded this election as acrucialstagein democratic consolidation.
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The present study, therefore, provides evidence of a beneficial interaction between plant resistance and biocontrol at thiscrucialstageof crop development.
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The passage from abstract to formal descriptions appears to be acrucialstage.
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The firstcrucialstageconsisted of the arrival of registration forms which the asylum staff were obliged to complete concerning certain categories of patient.
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Undergraduate training represents acrucialstageof development for instrumentalists, including singers, as they begin to mature as independent musicians and learners.
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The research findings showed that teachers were engaged in highly sophisticated practices, drawing on advanced levels of instrumental expertise to guide student musicians through acrucialstageof their development.
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Joyce himself, at thecrucialstageof proof-reading, was suffering from an eye complaint that left him immobilised as well as almost blind.
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Furthermore, their ability to perform these tasks during not only thecrucialstageof transition, but also afterwards, clearly affects the extent to which the whole process succeeds.
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We choose to focus on concept generation, as it is acrucialstagewhere many decisions are made that affect the rest of the product realization cycle.
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I hypothesize that the variation at thiscrucialstagemight have created the possibility for speakers to interpret i either as a pronoun or as an agreement marker.
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We are now at acrucialstageof implementation of the legislation.
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At that time, the emergency, as it was called, was at acrucialstage.
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The peace process is at acrucialstage.
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We are at acrucialstageand other aspects of the agreement must be implemented.
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