rapid pace

collocation in English

meaningsofrapidandpace

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rapid
adjective
uk
/ˈræp.ɪd/
us
/ˈræp.ɪd/
fast ...
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pace
noun
uk
/peɪs/
us
/peɪs/
the speed at which someone or something moves, or with which something happens ...
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(Definition ofrapidandpacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrapid pace

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The most obvious trigger is certainly therapidpaceand drastic scale of the encroachment on the traditional landscape.
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Given therapidpaceof change in communication technology, it is almost certain that additional options will be available in the near future.
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Since then, the subject has been developing at arapidpace, so that the theoretical developments have largely outstripped the too scarce (indirect) observational evidence.
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The discovery of additional blood groups, and perhaps more important, the discovery of polymorphisms other than blood groups, has been growing at arapidpace.
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It is an audacious way of introducing alternative material, in particular political theory, and possibly moving knowledge forward at arapidpace.
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This is important for policy purposes, particularly in view of therapidpaceof family and labour market change.
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For some topics, like cancer, high-quality evidence appears at arapidpaceand requires close vigilance.
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Initially, therapidpaceof building replacement indicates that longer-lived rulers may have been associated with several such official residences during their reigns.
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But this disparity is not surprising, given therapidpaceof a child's cortical development in the first two years of life.
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In recent decades, owing in part to technological advances and enhanced research funding, discoveries in the neurosciences have been growing at arapidpace.
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Yet this is important for policy purposes, particularly in view of therapidpaceof family and labour market change.
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Yet at the same time, therapidpaceof urbanization necessitated a further fundamental change in local decision-making.
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The chapter initially establishes the time frame, 1971 to 1993, which given therapidpaceof policy change is already dated.
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These firms are therefore thought to be of critical importance at a time when technological developments and structural economic change are occurring at arapidpace.
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Although in many developing nations the human population continues to grow at arapidpace, the overall impact may be ameliorated by lower affluence and lesser technological impact.
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Summing up, we believe that the main reason why the analysis has found only modest support for the reciprocity hypothesis is therapidpaceof social change.
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While agreeing with this sentiment, there is something else that needs to be done to ensure that ethical change has a chance to proceed at a sufficientlyrapidpace.
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Thus, automaticity allows for holistic assessment of complex problems at arapidpace.
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