foreseeable future
collocation in Englishmeaningsofforeseeableandfuture
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foreseeable
adjective
uk/fɔːˈsiː.ə.bəl/us/fɔːrˈsiː.ə.bəl/
A foreseeable event or situation is one that can be known about or guessed before ...
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future
noun
uk/ˈfjuː.tʃər/us/ˈfjuː.tʃɚ/
a period of time that is ...
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(Definition offoreseeableandfuturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, it is also clear that the rural-urban fault line will not be removed or redrawn at least within theforeseeablefuture.
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The conformational problem is therefore likely to remain incompletely resolved for theforeseeablefuture.
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Nevertheless, it seems likely that most councils will continue to maintain registers for theforeseeablefuture.
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The regulatory effect of institutions above the nation-state on employment-related matters is unlikely to increase substantially in theforeseeablefuture.
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Allowing unrestricted natural language dialogue would appear to require full human conversational competence, which does not seem feasible in theforeseeablefuture.
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Oil production has grown throughout, and will continue to do so for theforeseeablefuture(see table 1).
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The volume seems very likely to establish itself as the standard treatment of metadiscourse for theforeseeablefuture.
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A violent strategy would have led inevitably to spiralling escalation, with the state having the strategic edge at every turn in theforeseeablefuture.
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It is to feed the subsistence population, and it will continue so for theforeseeablefuture.
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Organs, however, for now and theforeseeablefuture, simply cannot be manufactured.
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This is a solution that may need to be reconsidered in theforeseeablefuture.
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This record will now stand for theforeseeablefutureand be an important reference work for plant breeders throughout the world.
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It seems that these questions will stand for theforeseeablefuturefor a number of reasons which are explored later in this chapter.
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Genetics and developmental biology will not be able to broach the subject of the predictability of "normal" individual phenotypic variation in theforeseeablefuture.
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At the present time there are two schemes that are the most promising for experimental application, at least in theforeseeablefuture.
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Hence, there is little indication that the state will prove capable of eliminating ethno-political tension, competition and violence in theforeseeablefuture.
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The social science criteria are simply unmeetable in the present orforeseeablefuture.
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Such connections will require continual reevaluation into theforeseeablefuture.
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We predict rapid increases in global carbon emissions for theforeseeablefuture.
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In theforeseeablefuture, journalists will continue to ask bioethicists for comment and many will agree to do so.
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