ever-growing demand
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demand
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uk/dɪˈmɑːnd/us/dɪˈmænd/
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(Definition ofdemandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In practice, municipalities were directly responsible for meeting theever-growingdemandfor day-care facilities.
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In the period from 1947 to 1956 the industry was recognised as a public service and theever-growingdemandfor coal made things easy.
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We must get away from the blind wisdom that said that we could build roads to meetever-growingdemand.
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In the first, there was anever-growingdemandfor coal.
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There is a justifiable demand, and anever-growingdemandand tendency to-day among the workers for more active participation in industrial administration.
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Why not use it for the modern bedrooms, thereby increasing theever-growingdemandfor them?
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It will also mean that our new foundation degrees will be developed and expanded to meet the ever-growingdemandfrom employers for advanced vocational skills.
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It was able to expand and meet anever-growingdemand.
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The whole of this proposal is another instance of theever-growingdemandfor land.
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There is a need and anever-growingdemandfor water for industry.
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Renewable sources, which we have so often advocated, and quite justifiably too, will scarcely be able to meet theever-growingdemand.
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All the while, our sustained economic success is producingever-growingdemandfor travel on our railways, on our roads and in our skies.
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To recap, we predicted anever-growingdemandfor information about the food that we eat—both its constituent ingredients and the wider impact of the processes by which it is produced.
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The increased size of some countries' fishing fleets, together with theever-growingdemandfor fish for human consumption and other uses, have all contributed to the exploitation of existing stocks.
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With theever-growingdemandfor water, it is essential that we should conserve our limited sources of supply and make the best and widest possible use of it.
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What was more natural, therefore, than to set up a track authority looking after infrastructure subsidy and, it was hoped, staunching theever-growingdemandfor railway subsidies?
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A road-building programme that was meant to cater for anever-growingdemandfor car use has suddenly been chopped back, with no alternative plans in place.
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Indeed, all the evidence from industry, agriculture and the domestic demand shows that the water industry must be prepared to meet anever-growingdemandfor its product in the future.
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