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slow erosion

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meanings of slowand erosion


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slow
adjective
uk /sləʊ/ us /sloʊ/
moving, happening, or doing something without ...
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erosion
noun[U]
uk /ɪˈrəʊ.ʒən/ us /ɪˈroʊ.ʒən/
the fact of soil, stone, etc. being gradually damaged and removed by the waves, rain, ...
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Examples of slow erosion


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Regrettable though that would be, it would be far better to do that than to allow a further slowerosion of the exchange rate.
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I have talked about the slowerosion of civil liberties.
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They mean that we must continue to campaign because there is slowerosion of those powers.
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The alternative to planned action along these lines is slowerosion, which can only mean disaster.
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There has been a slowerosion of teachers' pay and facilities in schools.
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It is lost by the slowerosion of civil liberties, usually at times of economic distress or war.
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The responses to my inquiries refer to slowerosion rather than dramatic closures and to lower basic standards.
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This uncertainty which it should have been the object of the legislation to end will continue and can only mean a slowerosion of the port's prospects.
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These streams have deep ravines and often waterfalls where hard rock layers slowerosion; they are said to be "hanging valleys".
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Sustainable techniques attempt to slowerosion through the use of cover crops in order to build organic matter in the soil.
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Fifty-eight breakwaters, built by 1992 to slowerosion, have captured the sand and significantly slowed its movement eastward.
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It has also been used by libertarians to warn about slowerosion of civil rights.
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Shade trees will raise the amount of infiltration and slowerosion of the soil.
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The thicker coating has a slowerosion rate, resulting in a life expectancy of approximately 25 years depending upon environmental conditions.
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The second millennium, however, also saw the beginning of a slowerosion of the pre-eminent position held by plants as sources of therapeutic effects.
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However, the loose composition of the island was subject to slowerosion that eventually washed away the lighthouse in 1950.
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The natural stream at the bottom was subsequently channelized to slowerosion.
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The rush of water deepened the washout, but the slowerosion protected downstream interests from the wall of water that would have resulted from a total dam collapse.
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