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Meanings of comparatively rare in English

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Usage of comparatively rare in English
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Hypertrophy of the thyroid gland, which is a comparatively rare disease; 2.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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It is comparatively rare, being mined for only in a few districts.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Min...
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The critic who ought to be a newsboy is now comparatively rare.
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
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Fortunately, however, true murrain is comparatively rare in this great stock-raising country.
Cattle and Their Diseases / Embracing Their History and Breeds, ...
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Nor should tact be confined to such comparatively rare incidents as this.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-21
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The ancient railings are hand-made, and are now comparatively rare and proportionately valuable.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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Apheliotropic movements are comparatively rare in a well-marked degree, excepting with sub-aërial roots.
The Power of Movement in Plants
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But snow is comparatively rare here, and it has not been considered necessary.
Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
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Hydrophobia is certainly one of the most horrible of diseases, although comparatively rare.
The Story of Germ Life
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Serious accidents are almost an everyday occurrence in cycling but deaths are comparatively rare.
The Guardian
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Very common in England, they are comparatively rare in France.
Wanderings by Southern Waters, Eastern Aquitaine
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In spite of this large hospitality, instances even of individual excess are comparatively rare.
Border and Bastille
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Attacks on helicopters are not unprecedented but are comparatively rare.
Reuters
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Soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) are comparatively rare malignant tumors with poor prognosis.
Pubmed
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To choose such a moment of finality is, for a pianist, a comparatively rare thing.
The Irish Times
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But in the Epistles it is comparatively rare alone.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
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