Follow up
follow up on Y (verb) - further develop some initial plans Y that you made or on some information Y that you received as a suggestion, as training, from research, etc.
follow up on announced plans
follow up sales calls
follow up the sales contact
the problem you asked me to follow up on
failed to follow up
failed to follow up on the opportunity
supposed to follow up on
follow up on a motion introduced in committee
produced a new publication to follow up on an old one
measures which follow up on the policy statement
follow up on someone who does have the information
sorry, just to follow up on an outstanding unresolved problem...
a follow up study
follow up research
follow up on a theme
follow up on the theme presented last time
follow up clues
follow up information
follow up discussion
long-term follow up
follow up with other arrangements if these fail
ask him to follow up on it
follow up on training courses you take
medical follow up
the first follow up
the second follow up
during the first year of follow up
the change between the first and second follow up
return for follow up visits
during the three year follow up period
cross-references that allow you to follow up on a line of enquiry
Example sentences:
* "The ADB representative said the highest economic risk would be if the government did not follow up on announced investment plans."
* "I should have spoken to you this afternoon about the stock footage you asked me to follow up on."
* "A very few forward-looking companies follow up on these courses by allowing employees to cut down to a four-day week from six months before retirement, reducing again to a three-day week in the last three months."
* "We have a network of contacts across the country, and if we don't find the bands, we'll follow up on someone who has."
* "I'm currently working out measures which can follow up on the policy statement and bring about changes in practice and law."
* "The Anglican Information Office, a corporate member of WACC, has produced this new publication to follow up on Getting into Print which it published in 1975."
* "Erm having produced that report and having erm er done the follow up on it, it doesn't seem to me that it would be reasonable for the general assembly to expect that the Board would come back year after year with repetitions of what we've already said, and that's why the commissioner notices that erm we don't report this year on child abuse."
* "Following that up when, when can your long suffering shareholders er, expect to see any return on the B Sky B stake and a follow up on that?"
* "Er, sorry, just to follow up on B Sky B again, are you gonna be accruing for any arrears in the interest er, in the second half, as well as the ongoing amount?"
* "So, we're going to follow up on that."
* "So really it's only right that this council should follow up on such a motion."
* "Here is an easy way to remind yourself to follow up on a mailed document.
* "Well yeah, she's probably gonna be, now, I, no it's either that she's going to be
* "Well I'll certainly get an introduction to the kind of methods that Donne uses which I'm supposed to follow up on."
* "We may have to follow up with other arrangements in the future."
* "Follow up information was obtained from the client database."
* "He'll follow up the contact, phone Steven, drop by and see him."
* "Clear cross-references, supplemented by a thorough index, allow you to follow up a line of enquiry and to move easily from the text to the line drawings, maps and colour plates, each chosen to represent a particular design or type of rug typical of those currently available, offering instant visual access to the information you need."
* "This chapter will follow up the theme presented in the last chapter."
* "The seven patients who did not receive a transplant died in hospital, but 18 of 20 patients who survived to hospital discharge after transplantation were alive at short term follow up (mean (range) 19.4 (10-;33) months)."
* "The proportion of students remaining never smokers at first follow up and at second follow up was assessed."
* "If the subjects with pneumonia were more likely to return for follow up visits than those without this could have resulted in an overestimation of the incidence of bacterial pneumonia among the drug users who seroconverted."
* "Changes in weight and waist-hip ratio during the three year follow up period could have led to misclassification of women."
* "Follow up of our patients showed a much lower rate of sudden death (two out of 156 or 1.3%, leaving out the patient who died before admission)."
* "It's the follow up it's the phone calling, that's the difficult part of making sales."
* "The programme was devised in response to feedback from the previous term's courses on assertiveness and time management, which suggested that one day courses did not allow for adequate reflection on the issues, practice or follow up discussion."
* "It'd be a very odd individual who, when telephoned by his girlfriend and advised he was to be a father, failed to follow up on it."
