rapid migration

collocation in English

meaningsofrapidandmigration

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rapid
adjective
uk
/ˈræp.ɪd/us
/ˈræp.ɪd/
fast ...
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migration
noun[C or U]
uk
/maɪˈɡreɪ.ʃən/us
/maɪˈɡreɪ.ʃən/
the process of animals travelling to a different place, usually when the ...
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(Definition ofrapidandmigrationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The combined effects of less erosion-resistant marly limestone and the columnar jointing of basalts caused therapidmigrationof the knickpoint toward the upstream reach.
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These dietary transitions are induced by the growth in per capita income and by therapidmigrationof population to urban areas.
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Music teachers need to pay special attention to developments associated with cultural globalisation, and to therapidmigrationof cultural and economic capital and electronically mediated images.
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Clearly we favourrapidmigrationto keep extra costs during migration to a minimum.
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Throughout the century, there has been arapidmigrationof displaced people into urban slums, seeking refuge from war or drought or simply leaving a countryside which cannot contain them.
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Poverty, epidemics and high taxes caused an alarming drop in population and encouragedrapidmigrationfrom the country to the city.
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Males constituted 58% of the population and females 42%, due torapidmigrationof young industrial workers to the area.
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Once a reversal in climate change allows forrapidmigrationout of refugial areas, these species spread rapidly into newly available habitat.
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Also, a unique effect of autoinfective larvae is larva currens due to therapidmigrationof the larvae through the skin.
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That phenomenon was accompanied by a burgeoning population increase, arapidmigrationof population from the agricultural regions into cities and the development of the industrial city.
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