total lack

collocation in English

meaningsoftotaland

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total
adjective
uk
/ˈtəʊ.təl/us
/ˈtoʊ.t̬əl/
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Examplesoftotal lack

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What this situation perhaps clearly indicates is a neartotallackof organization.
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Atotallackof tone-splitting errors would support (19a), while a preponderance of tone-splitting errors would provide evidence for model (19b).
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In addition, none of the informants expressed feelings oftotallackof commitment.
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So this solution allows living for the moment in the sense of atotallackof constraint on earlier time slices.
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There is little evidence that overcrowding, short of atotallackof parental privacy, has any effect on childbearing decisions in modern societies.
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There is an inherent fault in insisting on atotallackof relationship between the subject and its representation.
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There was atotallackof understanding on this issue.
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But the convenience and relative cheapness of boarding houses did have one major drawback + an almosttotallackof privacy.
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What remains of the man, besides his energy, his passion for action and histotallackof self-doubt, is a mind furnished with the readymade, a parfait bureaucrat.
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Together with thetotallackof seeds in the 3- and 5-m traps, this clearly suggests a short range of autochory as a dispersal mechanism.
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His disarming kindness, great charm, andtotallackof conventionalism were combined with a strong sense of responsibility from which we younger colleagues had much to learn.
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In addition, the very few parasitoid wasps (and apparentlytotallackof predators) found in this study, indicate a low level of mortality due to predation or parasitism.
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What is particularly refreshing in this study is the almosttotallackof jargon-ridden language that vitiates so much work on various cultural issues or formations.
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This is certainly the case in studies of social phobia and the other anxiety disorders, despite the almosttotallackof studies of its psychometric characteristics.
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Because of the very low rates of occurrence, we did not further analyse the items on which there was atotallackof agreement amongst all reporters.
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