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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intervening
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
period
▪ During the intervening period, prices had tripled.
▪ But in the intervening period their triumph seemed beyond doubt or challenge.
▪ Contracts are typically for a three- or five-year term and can prove inflexible in the intervening period.
▪ Clearly, the intervening period since the Minister's statement of August 1976 had led to some clearer thinking.
▪ For a considerable part of the intervening period there was recurrent civil strife between magnate and dynastic factions.
▪ It is scarcely found in the intervening period, but its presence here is no accident.
▪ In the intervening period the decision of the Comintern Congress had become public.
▪ I spent most of the intervening period in the National Portrait Gallery.
variable
▪ In effect, teachers become intervening variables in their own experiments.
▪ I regard organizational climate as an intervening variable which affects the results of the operations of the organization.
▪ Let us therefore assume that nervous disorders act as an intervening variable.
▪ The techniques themselves are identical whether the variable being controlled is a prior or an intervening variable in the relationship being investigated.
▪ If it disappears when an intervening variable is controlled, the mechanism linking the two variables has been interpreted.
▪ In multivariate procedures the controls are deployed as potential intervening variables.
▪ If we want to argue that the causal mechanism is fairly direct, we have to control for similar intervening variables.
▪ But in their professional role, teachers are, of course, in charge: they are not intervening variables but intervening agents.
years
▪ But some underlying patterning remains, despite the intervening years and the subtle shifts in values and beliefs.
▪ They'd answer the outside world by giving their own authorised version of the intervening years.
▪ Some time, then, during the intervening years, he had been granted a barony.
▪ In the decline the church had experienced in the intervening years, fewer catholic school children had opted out.
▪ There is literally nothing of an official nature which can serve as a guide to possible fluctuations in the intervening years.
▪ Agricultural surpluses have become commonplace in the intervening years and this is preventing increased production from upping incomes.
▪ It is interesting to speculate on the possible reasons for his total obscurity during the intervening years of the Restoration.
▪ There's been no increase in the intervening years.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intervening

Intervene \In`ter*vene"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Intervened; p. pr. & vb. n. Intervening.] [L. intervenire, interventum, to intervene, to hinder; inter between + venire to come; akin to E. come: cf. F. intervenir. See Come.]

  1. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.

  2. To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.

  3. To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.

  4. In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
    --Abbott.

Wiktionary
intervening

  1. that intervenes or mediates n. intervention; mediation v

  2. (present participle of intervene English)

WordNet
intervening

  1. adj. occurring or falling between events or points in time; "so much had happened during the intervening years"

  2. standing between or separating two objects or areas; "Paris--where the same city lies on both sides of an intervening river"; "after reaching the top of the hill he looked across an intervening meadow to another line of hills"

Usage examples of "intervening".

Showing no more courtesy to his confreres than toward Hu Shih, the man pushed past intervening bodies until he stood alone, eyeing Reeve patronizingly.

Well, there's the line of least resistance, Reeve decided, and made off in as straight a line toward the village as the intervening trees permitted.

Looking at some of them, mute anguished survivors of inexplicable disaster, she almost cursed herself for not intervening before the colony was raided.

Back to the MedOps desk, to see if Uaka's corridor plans had changed in the intervening years.

You probably remember it better than I do since you slept peacefully for over forty of the intervening years.

The third man—op Owen recognized Charlie Moorfield—waited calmly as Orley rapidly closed the intervening distance.

Unless he flipped over the intervening fold, Moksoon would have to follow the southerly course.

Her voice was a whisper of disbelief but sufficient reassurance to propel him across the intervening space.

She flew across the intervening field, now entirely visible in the full morning light, hurdling the low hedge without losing her stride and pelted to the thornbushy hill.

He had counted up the number of offspring she had presented to Lord Maidir in the Turns since Rob and his mother had been at Benden Hold: she was a fine one to talk about large families, with seven more in the intervening Turns, making a total of ten.

He leaped across the intervening space, bellowing denials of the news.

They would be able to half-swim, half-wade across, the intervening channels, using the fire lizards to scare away the water snakes, which could wring the blood out of a person's arm or leg.

Quickly the harper walked across the intervening space just in time to see Toric, arching majestically in the air, dive from the high point of the cliff into the deep clear blue-green waters of the anchorage and swim with powerful strokes to the larger of the two ships.

Bendarek had really improved the quality of paper over the intervening Turns.

She looked coldly across the intervening stretch of river at the Murgo.