adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sustained campaign (= lasting a long time )
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The organization has mounted a sustained campaign against the killing of endangered species.
a sustained effort (= one that you continue making for a long time )
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It will take a sustained effort over the next 5 years to achieve our objectives.
a sustained recovery (= that continues for a long time )
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Will these policies provide a basis for sustained recovery and sustained growth?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
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Labour said it would raise taxes and was subject to the most sustained derision, as well as black propaganda.
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Nevertheless, the case of a 13-year-old being raped at knife-point in a Coventry churchyard received the most sustained coverage.
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Masefield's unique narrative style is at its most sustained in these two novels.
■ NOUN
attack
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The way lay open for a sustained attack on environmentalism.
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Few animals can survive the sustained attack of this devastating army.
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This initiated a sustained attack on the problem which produced the desired result eighteen months later.
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A more sustained attack on the impact of advertising on the press can be found in James Curran's writings.
effort
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It requires sustained effort and leadership by management.
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His eyes are dull with the sustained effort of anger.
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This demands sincere and sustained effort by the individual.
growth
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Many had planned future campaigns on the basis of sustained growth .
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Rather, they tell us what they told us last year - that they will maintain conditions for sustained growth .
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The Government can not maintain conditions for sustained growth if they do not introduce such conditions.
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Real convergence would mean similar and sustained growth rates, as well as similar inflation rates.
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This is the only way to achieve sustained growth , based on net exports and investment demand.
increase
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The nature of the retrograde messenger may give clues to the processes responsible for the sustained increase in transmitter release.
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During seizures, there was a sustained increase in extracellular glutamate to potentially neurotoxic concentrations in the epileptogenic hippocampus.
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From then on there was a sustained increase in output and productivity, which has continued through to the 1980s.
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These changes were accompanied by a greater and more sustained increase in energy intake in the steroid group.
recovery
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A Budget for sustained recovery and a Budget for jobs, said Mr Lamont.
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The Conservatives have no policies which would mean sustained recovery , higher health care or improved educational standards.
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But that can not and will not achieve sustained recovery - experience here and everywhere else proves that.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fewer interactions, therefore, indicate more sustained conversations between teachers and their pupils.
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In addition to their amazing dives, peregrines are capable of long, sustained flight.
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In alcoholic liver disease, transplant assessment was considered appropriate in the case of sustained abstinence following medical advice.
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It did not mount a sustained challenge against globally-organised capitalism, concentrated state power or even prevailing discrimination against homosexuals.
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She felt battered into numbness by the sustained assault on her diminishing reserves.
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The sustained discipline required to keep accounts was boringly time-consuming and beyond the capabilities of most.
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The Government can not maintain conditions for sustained growth if they do not introduce such conditions.