natural progression
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnaturalandprogression
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natural
adjective
uk/ˈnætʃ.ər.əl/us/ˈnætʃ.ɚ.əl/
as found in nature and not involving anything made or done ...
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progression
noun[C or U]
uk/prəˈɡreʃ.ən/us/prəˈɡreʃ.ən/
the act of changing to the next stage ...
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(Definition ofnaturalandprogressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Direct payments are anaturalprogressionin community care towards that goal, giving users more control and more choice.
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Is not thenaturalprogressionfrom that argument to specify the duty and the degree of duty rather than to remove the duty altogether?
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It is also anaturalprogression, as collaborative projects become much more common and technological demands of such projects increase.
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Since then, there has been anaturalprogression.
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Direct payments are anaturalprogressionin community care towards that aim, giving users more control and more choice.
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Furthermore, further research is needed regarding thenaturalprogressionof the disease considering different prognostic factors.
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Regulations in this regard appeared to be anaturalprogressionas local authorities extended their existing cemeteries.
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Thematising projects have tended to add together all the musical moments of the novel as though there were some coherent andnaturalprogressionbetween them.
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Seen from a broad perspective, gene therapy reflects anaturalprogressionin the application of biomedical science to medicine.
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Participants thus framed the move into sequence dancing as an acceptance of their ageing - as anaturalprogressionfor their age.
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Anaturalprogressionwould be to extend to three dimensions to allow the robot locate chemical sources at different depths.
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Previous studies7"11 have suggested a tendency fornaturalprogressionof supravalvar aortic stenosis and spontaneous regression of peripheral pulmonary arterial stenosis.
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First, speaking and writing are two different uses of languages, and second, language changes and it's anaturalprogression.
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Similarly,naturalprogressionto functional impairment over 5 years is limited, and the short time horizon excludes thus one of the major cost-drivers of the disease.
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Perhaps it can be anaturalprogressionfrom our debate today.
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I see this as anaturalprogressionin the debate about devolution.
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There will frequently be difficulty in distinguishing a medical accident from thenaturalprogression of a disease, or from a possible side effect of treatment.
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Because of that training failure, midwives no longer understand thenaturalprogressionof labour in a normal, unmedicated physiological birth.
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