single instance

collocation in English

meaningsofsingleandinstance

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single
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/us
/ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/
one ...
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instance
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪn.stəns/us
/ˈɪn.stəns/
a particular situation, event, or fact, especially an example of something that ...
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(Definition ofsingleandinstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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First, there is the issue of "what counts" as asingleinstanceof operant behavior.
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Discovery of asingleinstanceof such a strategy would deeply challenge the entire edifice.
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A scenario is a description of asingleinstanceof usage of the system yet to be designed.
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We are not just talking here about asingleinstanceof suffering in the life of some arbitrarily chosen individual.
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Each doublet set included asingleinstanceof one doubled consonant and three instances of another doubled consonant.
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Apart from asingleinstancein the subperiod 1500-70, definite nominal gerunds do not combine at all with without.
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Many philosophers would even argue that everysingleinstanceof phenomenal volition is token-identical to this very correlate.
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The affected subjects produced asingleinstanceof an irregular passive or perfect form which was not -en suffixed (swum).
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Although both of these functions have a core meaning, this meaning does not cover everysingleinstance.
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Is there asingleinstance?
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I give that as asingleinstance.
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I will give him onesingleinstance.
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That is not asingleinstance.
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Take thesingleinstanceof land.
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That is only asingleinstance.
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You cannot show asingleinstance.
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But that is only asingleinstance.
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That is just asingleinstance.
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This is not asingleinstance.
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In the first case, the field value is asingleinstanceof the target class or a set of such instances.
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There is not asingleinstancewhere exploitive agents that benefited from selective interaction successfully invade a world of co-operative agents.
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