rapid depletion

collocation in English

meaningsofrapidanddepletion

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rapid
adjective
uk
/ˈræp.ɪd/us
/ˈræp.ɪd/
fast ...
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depletion
noun[S or U]
uk
/dɪˈpliː.ʃən/us
/dɪˈpliː.ʃən/
a reduction ...
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(Definition ofrapidanddepletionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Poverty is generally thought to lead to environmental degradation by encouragingrapiddepletionof common property resources to satisfy immediate needs.
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However, this does not permit overlyrapiddepletionof non-renewable resources or imply that environmental degradation does not matter.
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Currentrapiddepletionof natural tropical forest, especially when associated with change in land use, has raised many concerns.
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Especially alarming is therapiddepletionof tropical and sub-tropical forest resources.
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Therapiddepletionof such small leaf sources explains the above-mentioned frequent switches of host plants.
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Auctioning will lead to a morerapiddepletionof stocks.
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Therapiddepletionof the world's natural resources has been the dominant means of economic growth this century.
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I see no sense in massive imports of foreign coal and no sense in therapiddepletionof our gas reserves.
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That was the situation, a situation ofrapiddepletionof our reserves, a situation of growing recession in the textile industry.
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It pays no regard to the need to conserve the stocks of ilex squid, and it will lead to itsrapiddepletion.
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If the defilement of our environment is a crime, so too is waste in a world faced withrapiddepletionof its natural resources.
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The extreme vulnerability of most deep sea fish stocks torapiddepletionmeans that this fishery may no longer exist by the time regulations are implemented.
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This reaction also caused arapiddepletionof oxygen.
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This aloofness from other troops prevents high concentrations of individuals, which could result inrapiddepletionof local resources.
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Due to therapiddepletionof timber on the company's land, the mill was never rebuilt and the town went into decline.
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However, imports of goods led to arapiddepletionof the country's foreign exchange reserves.
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This led torapiddepletionof the resources and the immediate fall of oil prices.
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Blood flow to a section of the brain is stopped, which results inrapiddepletionof oxygen and other nutrients in the starved section.
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