CONTINUAL


Meaning of CONTINUAL in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

process

Firstly, it ignores those male, often misogynist, philosophers who have emphasised relations and continual processes .

Clearly the whole game has a dimension of linear extension which enables a continual process of growth in recognition.

But back on the marshes and fens, who was really to profit from this continual process of ever more intensive cultivation?

Career choice is a continual process , not a once and for all decision.

He was in a continual process of rewriting his material and revising his mythology.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The continual news reports about the economy have scared many manufacturers.

The deadline was getting closer and we were under continual pressure to reach our targets.

The exhaustion felt by new parents comes from the continual disturbance of their sleep patterns.

The hostages lived in continual fear of violent death.

We were kept awake by the continual buzz of small planes overhead.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Added to this, a continual downward pressure on prices forces farmers to provide even more for even less.

Between 783 and 785 there was continual conflict across Saxony.

However, the rape was only the worst in a continual pattern of gross disrespect for others.

Perhaps without Miss Philimore's continual criticism she might become an asset to the shop.

Simply by growing larger, creatures suffer a continual decrease in relative surface area.

The day before F's death the prisoner who had attacked him was moved into a nearby cell, albeit under continual observation.

They were found to require continual maintenance as the support environment for specific products changed over time.

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