intensive - use in sentences

Preposition: at

  • time: Farm work was labor intensive at this time and was mainly carried out using horses.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • become: Monitoring becomes much more labor intensive and difficult in asset classes where there is low liquidity and lower transparency.

Modifies a noun

  • farming: The guiding motto of intensive farming is ' waste nothing, productivity is everything ' .
  • agriculture: The cassava growing region of coastal Kenya is separated from cultivated areas inland by an arid belt which does not support intensive agriculture.
  • care: During the five days he was in intensive care he had numerous seizures.
  • cultivation: The same applies to species having declined because of intensive soil cultivation or seed cleaning.
  • lobbying: More on the intensive lobbying that preceded the s. .

Modifying Another Word

  • computationally: Maybe we should put all the computationally intensive components under a mountain.
  • graphically: Hummingbird Exceed provides the performance boost necessary for students to remotely access graphically intensive CAD design tools from PCs in their homes.
  • manually: In the absence of such systems, inefficiency creates work and manually intensive work-arounds and rechecks become the norm.
  • fairly: In order to create a view of a 3D computer model some fairly intensive calculations have to be performed.
  • relatively: These areas have generally low biodiversity as a result of relatively intensive management.
  • highly: Undertake High Intensity Workouts The best way to burn fat is to undertake highly intensive aerobic exercise.

Used with adjective complement

  • labor: Because our services are very labor intensive, directly employed staff account for by far the largest portion of budgets.
  • become: How do we sustain our landscapes when agriculture is becoming more intensive?
  • use: Also, parents were interviewed using intensive, interview-based methods of scoring.
  • approve: Despite the use of the word 'Freedom ' , the scheme approves intensive, factory farm conditions.
  • undertake: Applicants who don't have TOEFL or IELTS can undertake intensive Pre-course English Language at College.

Preposition: in

  • term: These are also very resource intensive in terms of maintenance and raise issues about sustainability.

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