sudden surge

collocation in English

meaningsofsuddenandsurge

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sudden
adjective
uk
/ˈsʌd.ən/us
/ˈsʌd.ən/
happening or done quickly and ...
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surge
noun[C]
uk
/sɜːdʒ/us
/sɝːdʒ/
a sudden and ...
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(Definition ofsuddenandsurgefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Yet if these objectives have always been at the core of guideline development, why thesuddensurgein the expansion and dissemination of guidelines?
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In the wake of thissuddensurgeof social benefits, the locomotive powering welfare spending became the automatic incremental expansion of already broad and relatively generous entitlements.
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We are therefore better able to react in the event of being faced with asuddensurgein our industry.
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During the past year we have seen asuddensurgeof buying groups and the start of selling groups.
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It should have detected thesuddensurgein place of safety orders and care applications being made by the county council social services department.
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That overspend reflects asuddensurgein clients presenting for assessment under the care in the community programme in the autumn of last year.
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No doubt times were difficult, and that is why there was asuddensurge.
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I am comparing the situation to dental appeals and so forth where there is asuddensurgeof appeals all at one time.
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It was not asuddensurgeon that occasion.
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However, if a hospital has a very high percentage of emergencies, there could be asuddensurge, which could completely disrupt the hospital.
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We will act within those rules, which explicitly allow countries to take action to protect their markets against an unforeseen andsuddensurgein imports.
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If not, asuddensurgeof animosity could do irreparable damage.
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Provided that there is nosuddensurgein unconvicted prisoners, that puts us on course to resolve many of the problems.
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I asked what had happened to my telephone, and was told that there must have been asuddensurgeof power on the line.
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Was it asuddensurgeof public opinion expressing itself instinctively, to which the health authority reacted?
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Can he explain thissuddensurgeof intellectual hunger south of the border?
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At the same time, there was asuddensurgeof price increases and, not unreasonably, many people will have seen that as cause and effect.
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There has been asuddensurgeof national interest in devolution, as if it were a new and strange doctrine.
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Let us examine the figures of the so-calledsuddensurge.
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I wonder what we would do under the existing regime if there were asuddensurgeof oil prices.
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