quantitative terms
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quantitative
adjective
uk/ˈkwɒn.tɪ.tə.tɪv/us/ˈkwɑːn.t̬ə.teɪ.t̬ɪv/
relating to numbers ...
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term
noun
uk/tɜːm/us/tɝːm/
the fixed period of time that something ...
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In quantitative terms, the surviving works are heavily dominated by concertos and related genres (sinfonie, chamber concertos and sonatas).
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It belongs to a set of quintessentially modern practices that represent physical and social phenomena in quantitative terms.
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At issue is not just who was doing the mobilising, or even the extent, the degree of success in quantitative terms.
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However, this study could not demonstrate that the actual variation indeed increased over time, at least not in quantitative terms.
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These statements express in quantitative terms the strength of association between a contextual feature and the linguistic variable (1996:253).
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Many chapters fail the test of usefulness to clinicians because they make no effort to translate research findings into the quantitative terms that clinicians understand.
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This implies an astonishing uniformity in seeing to the needs of old people, at least in quantitative terms.
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This convergence, in quantitative terms, is revealed in the decreased degree of difference between females and males of the middle age groups.
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A number of variables relating to migration and participation in institutional organization are measurable in quantitative terms.
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The nature of this partial assimilation between consonants and vowels has been described in fairly precise quantitative terms.
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The second questionnaire elicited information regarding the degree of use both in qualitative and quantitative terms.
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This implies that all infinite worlds are as good as each other in quantitative terms, despite the fact that some contain more worthwhile lives.
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The formal model provides the link between institutional configurations (specified in qualitative terms) and social-ecological dynamics (specified in quantitative terms).
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But in a quantified world they cannot be competent unless they learn to think in formal, quantitative terms.
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He begins his book with an account of the ambitious attempt by his team to investigate the impact in quantitative terms by tracking changes in various measures of lifestyle behaviour.
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They are places where mathematics is fluently spoken, where practitioners argue not about whether to describe the world in quantitative terms, but rather about the fine points of methodology.
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Parchment plea rolls, which recorded the proceedings and judgements, but not the reasoning, of the central courts were, in quantitative terms, the primary textual repositories of the common law.
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It is not, however, possible to make a comparison in quantitative terms.
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We cannot shove one aside and welcome the other in quantitative terms.
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