vast expansion

collocation in English

meaningsofvastandexpansion

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vast
adjective
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/vɑːst/us
/væst/
extremely ...
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expansion
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪkˈspæn.ʃən/us
/ɪkˈspæn.ʃən/
the increase of something in size, number, ...
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(Definition ofvastandexpansionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In addition to global market forces, thevastexpansionof state power has greatly influenced mobility in the twentieth century.
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Communications technologies enabled totalitarianism, but they also permitted thevastexpansionof the welfare state.
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With its coal, pottery, iron and steel, and thevastexpansionof engineering, it is one of the industrial keystones of our economy.
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In fact, no other summit has ever had to face the prospect of such avastexpansionas this.
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After all, we are talking today of improvements in a scientific age, avastexpansionof industry, and the method of dealing with it.
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On top of it, they were faced with the sheer physical task of providing accommodation and instruction for avastexpansionof the teaching profession.
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The number of college of education places now available could be used for avastexpansionof educational standards.
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There must have been avastexpansionin the last few months but clearly not sufficient to warrant the least optimism.
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It has apparently been forgotten that the basis upon which our social legislation must rest is avastexpansionof our national income.
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It may even be safety, and, with safety, avastexpansionof prosperity.
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So, the difficulty that we face is that there will be avastexpansionof the coal industry.
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We are living in a world with avastexpansionof credit.
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In thevastexpansionof the nineteenth century the human element seems to have been lost.
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We are concerned about thevastexpansionin the market.
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The need stems in part from thevastexpansionof legal aid expenditure in recent years.
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Over the next ten years there will certainly be avastexpansionin air transport.
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Those figures relate not to a region in decay, but to a region in a transitional period ofvastexpansion.
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We were then told that there could be avastexpansionin the mines and that we had many years of reserves.
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We should have avastexpansionof the roads programme and a fundamental tackling of the railway system—improvements in railway track, signalling and rolling stock.
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