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June 30, 2008

Survey

survey (noun, verb) - a study of something
(often by asking a group of people a list of questions and statistically analysing their answers)

carefuly survey
critically survey
undertake a survey
carry out a survey
conduct a survey

a comprehensive survey
a brief survey
a quick survey
the survey sample

a telephone survey
commission a survey

a survey respondent
participate in a survey
respond to a survey
respond positively to the survey

the survey data
the methodology of the survey
the survey questionnaire
the initial survey

the survey results
the survey findings
the shock findings of the survey
the overwhelming evidence from the survey
the survey showed that 71 per cent of the 3,000 questioned disagreed that...

a survey has revealed problems
the survey showed that
the survey indicates that...
the survey suggests that...
the survey reveals that...
the survey found that...
the survey estimated that...
according to the survey..

a seismic survey
a structural survey
an aerial survey
underwater survey and drawing

a full survey
an independent survey
signed a lease on a shop you've never seen before, with no independent survey
a professional survey
the cost of a professional survey

a household survey
a housing needs survey
an attitude survey of a national sample of the general public
a year-long survey of the habits of 24,000 adults in England
a survey of businesses

a most encouraging survey of good practice
the average increase reported in the March survey
carried out this survey as part of our ongoing review of security


Example sentences:

* TV ads are a big turn-off with viewers, a new survey reveals.

* You didn't do the class survey?

* The full survey will ensure every nook and cranny is inspected.

* First, a survey can ask only about a limited range of matters.

* The factory survey found that one quarter of Japan's biggest factories used robots and that a second quarter had plans to install them by the end of 1982.

* The average increase reported in the March survey was 8.5 per cent.

* In reality it is, according to a survey conducted by swimwear company Slix, the garment women like buying least.

* More than half of Britain's smallest companies do not use personal computers, according to a MORI survey commissioned by IBM.

* According to the survey, agents frequently overestimate the size of rooms.

* This is the first time we have carried out this survey as part of our ongoing review of security.

* The survey also showed 71 per cent of the 3,000 questioned disagreed that there were too many detective programmes on TV, and 79 per cent said that 7.45pm on a Sunday was a good time to screen A Touch of Frost.

* But the Signpost Hotel Guide survey of 300 hotel owners showed that fewer people are bothering use a false name when they book in for an illicit weekend.

* Our main survey showed that very few people had had any difficulty getting the type of credit they had decided on.

* The total of those favouring denominational schooling in the initial survey was less than one-third.

* The General Household Survey found that in one month in 1985, out of people aged 65 and over, 34% had seen their doctor; 5% had seen a nurse; 1% had seen a health visitor; 11% had seen a chiropodist (footcare): 9% had seen a home help; 2% had received meals on wheels; and 5% had been to a day centre.

* The wreck will then probably be used as a training site for divers interested in learning the basic skills of underwater survey and drawing.

* And now you've come down to London with no accommodation apart from that grotty little hotel, and signed a lease on a shop you've never seen before, with no independent survey, no up-to-date trading figures and no solicitor to check the terms of the agreement?

* Fourthly, there is an attitude survey of a national sample of the general public to discover current attitudes to new technologies.

* A year-long survey of the habits of 24,000 adults in England, Wales and Scotland has found that people with an annual household income of 20,000 or more have considerably higher levels of attendance than those in lower income groups.

* The cost of a professional survey for a house of average size and complexity varies between $150 and $500.

* The shock findings, in a survey by the New Statesman journal, will boost growing demands for a fundamental rethink of the links between the party and the unions.

* Mack and Lansley (1985) carried out their survey of poverty in two parts.

* The Cockroft Report (1984) gave a most encouraging survey of good practice and advocated an approach which can be summed up through the mnemonic SPIDER:.

* The OPCS disability survey estimated that there were six million people in Great Britain with one or more disabilities (see Table 4.2).

* Patients and relatives responded more positively to the ward survey than did visitors.

* There is overwhelming evidence from the PEP survey to show that local concentrations of the racial minority groups are associated with poor housing, poor jobs and low incomes, and among Asians with large and often extended families with a high ratio of dependants to wage earners and consisting of people who speak little or no English.

* A special analysis of the overall extent of the temporary workforce carried out on the British/European Communities' Labour Force Survey bears on the changing structure of the labour market and its likely repercussions on the outlook for Britain's underclass.

* As you know St Peter's PCC recently carried out a housing needs survey in Scorton.

* But a new survey has revealed more problems at Park South Junior and Infants schools.


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