adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lasting benefit
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These plans are likely to result in lasting benefit to the whole of our district.
a lasting friendship
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This began a lasting friendship between the two women.
a lasting impact (= one that lasts for a long time )
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The arrival of the railways made a lasting impact on many sectors of the economy.
a lasting impression (= one that someone remembers for a long time )
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Sam’s performance had clearly made a lasting impression on the audience.
a lasting influence (= continuing for a long time )
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His travels in Africa had a lasting influence on his work.
a lasting/permanent peace
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He has the chance to forge a lasting peace with the Palestinians.
an abiding/enduring/lasting memory (= that you will always have )
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The children's abiding memory of their father is of his patience and gentleness.
lasting fame (= being famous for a long time )
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Diderot gained lasting fame as the editor of the French Encyclopaedia.
lasting happiness (= happiness that continues )
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Leonie had found a lasting happiness in her relationship with Jim.
lasting value (= that will be important or useful for a long time )
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He wanted to achieve something of lasting value.
lasting/permanent harm
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The injury caused him discomfort but no lasting harm.
permanent/lasting memorial
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An appeal has been launched to build a lasting memorial to the composer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Between campaigns he formed attachments of a more lasting kind.
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Momentary pleasures are given up, but only because a more lasting pleasure is promised later.
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Two other recent plays, both dramatised, although one from real life, left a more lasting impression.
■ NOUN
damage
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There are people who are convinced that the problem is so acute that lasting damage has already been done.
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That was all fairly predictable, and unlikely to prove of lasting damage .
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The first meeting is also a time when transgressions are most likely to cause lasting damage .
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Her rifle butt had given him a nasty knock, but there would be no lasting damage .
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All unpleasant, especially to a small child, but usually of brief duration and causing no lasting damage .
effect
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However, a really creative approach can be a great attention-fixer and have a lasting effect .
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Some of the tax reforms in this budget, however, will have a large and lasting effect .
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Something she'd suffered, like chickenpox: nasty, but with few if any lasting effects .
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No one doubts that the move will have significant lasting effects on the world of Unix and its relations.
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Decisions taken on these issues were to have a lasting effect on the geographical deployment of full-time staff.
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It was a mild hallucinogen - no lasting effects .
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That is why what may at first seem to be a casual incident can have lasting effects .
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The only lasting effect it may have is on the careers of some of the people involved.
friendship
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Minton introduced him to Denis Wirth-Miller and Richard Chopping with whom he formed a lasting friendship .
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I have made lots of lasting friendships along my Guiding road as I have through Medau and think myself lucky.
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Above all, however, is the recurring theme of lasting friendship .
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Social clubs especially for hard-of-hearing people may create lasting friendships and opportunities for service.
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You meet some delightful people and lasting friendships result - being a husband and wife team helps.
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There were many crew changes therefore lasting friendships did not have time to mature.
impact
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The arrival of the railways made an important and lasting impact on many sectors of the economy.
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Certainly, they have had little lasting impact on teaching practices.
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Their coverage is tightly focused in order to achieve rapid but lasting impact on managers' effectiveness.
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They may have a lasting impact .
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The final chapter outlines what is involved in production planning if a video recording is to have any lasting impact .
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Dicey's work has had a major and lasting impact .
impression
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The implementation of the rationalisation programme left a lasting impression on Finniston which was to influence his future operating style.
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Such stories would have made a lasting impression on my father and given him an early interest in Abyssinia.
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It made a lasting impression on me.
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But George Burt made a lasting impression on the place, after which it was no longer the old-world village it had been.
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His family had been very poor when he was young, and it had left a lasting impression on him.
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A heavy stream of important trading statements made little lasting impression on the shares involved.
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The first visit by prospective parents is important as it creates a lasting impression .
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Yet, regrettably, the lasting impression is of a merely superficial look at grinding poverty.
influence
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Like Shelley, he was a lasting influence on Steven Morrissey.
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Because they had no lasting influence , they were regarded as minor.
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Cochrane's criticism of the impact of health care has had a lasting influence and is often used to undermine health services.
peace
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The indigenous media need more than ever to promote lasting peace with justice, through ecumenical and interfaith dialogue.
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And as the action becomes bloodier, chances of a genuine and lasting peace become even more remote.
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There seems to be only one feasible solution that could bring lasting peace .
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A ceasefire, let alone lasting peace , will take long negotiation.
solution
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State terror can not be a lasting solution .
value
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Secondly, to give the magazine readability, something with lasting value and relevance that readers wish to keep for reference.
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The projects were to be of real and lasting value , and able in the long run to pay for themselves.
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I haven't produced a single piece of writing of lasting value in my life.
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An adequate transactional competence should be a real achievement of lasting value .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a lasting peace settlement
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His next book is about the lasting effects of the Vietnam war.
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Japan's creation of a Western-style economy has been the country's lasting achievement.
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The committee's decision could have a lasting effect on the community.
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The incident left a lasting impression on the young girl.
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The speech could do lasting damage to US--German relations.
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Until we all give up violence, there cannot possibly be lasting peace in the world.