simple exercise

collocation in English

meaningsofsimpleandexercise

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simple
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪm.pəl/us
/ˈsɪm.pəl/
easy to understand or do; ...
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exercise
noun
uk
/ˈek.sə.saɪz/us
/ˈek.sɚ.saɪz/
physical activity that you do to make your body strong ...
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(Definition ofsimpleandexercisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, this in itself is far from asimpleexercise, and the scale and scope of available longitudinal data vary significantly.
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My aim is to refresh that meaning through asimpleexercisein taxonomy.
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To verify this impression of competence, there is asimpleexercisewhich anyone can carry out, given a tape recorder and patience.
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In conclusion, the discussion of telecommunications, insurance and postal services shows that it is not asimpleexerciseto estimate market access.
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In thesimpleexerciseundertaken above, an absolute premise of many is called into question.
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Before running regressions based on equation (3), we can do the followingsimpleexerciseto get a flavor of asymmetry.
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I believe that it would be asimpleexerciseto provide the information.
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What is happening to the price of oil is also asimpleexercisein the law of supply and demand.
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This is asimpleexerciseof counting the number of people who join the forces and the number who have left for various reasons.
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It is a verysimpleexercisein redrafting.
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The only thing that they are not allowed to do is to prepare the application form, which is asimpleexercise.
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No one should get the idea that this will be asimpleexercise.
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It is asimpleexercisein budgetary control, dressed up as something more.
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This was asimpleexercisein thuggery by an administration acting in panic.
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Indeed, it is a very quick andsimpleexerciseto remove it.
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Only the hopelessly naive or over-optimistic could believe that this is asimpleexercise.
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You can work out the gross income from thatsimpleexercise.
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Could not a limit have been put on certain categories of expenditure by asimpleexercisein reclassification without having to downgrade the whole system of regional development?
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