chronic lack

collocation in English

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chronic
adjective
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/ˈkrɒn.ɪk/us
/ˈkrɑː.nɪk/
(especially of a disease or something bad) continuing for a ...
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Church leaders and missionaries often attributed their lack of success to achroniclackof financial and human resources.
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Church leaders and missionaries often attributed this to achroniclackof financial and human resources.
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When the regime crumbled during 1956 as a result of splits within the party andchroniclackof legitimacy and support among the population, these complaints shaped local political demands.
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The lack of small and intermediate size-classes noted in many savannas would, under this model, probably be due to achroniclackof escape opportunities rather than seed/ seedling limitation.
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The planned investment will go some way towards addressing thechroniclackof capital investment in our precious asset, the national health service.
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The committee has cited thatchroniclackof investment as a reason for regarding the courthouse as unsuitable.
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Initially what attracted me to the subject was the fact that we have achroniclackof resources, for instance for sport in our society.
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The obvious,chroniclackof understanding means that we will get no further.
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There has been achroniclackof investment in industry since the war.
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There is achroniclackof mobility because there is no market.
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Despite far-sighted schemes in those boroughs, there is still achroniclackof affordable social housing.
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Are we to suffer fromchroniclackof investment while our wiser, but no more gifted, competitors race ahead?
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There is achroniclackof play facilities, which the corporation wishes to provide but which its finances will not run to providing.
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The firms which show achroniclackof profitability should not continue to receive unlimited aid for ever.
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I welcome the acceptance that there has been achroniclackof strategic planning in the sector.
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They are becoming increasingly frustrated by thechroniclackof finance and the increasing cynicism of ratepayers.
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Another reason for company failures is the currentchroniclackof consumer confidence.
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Similarly, there is achroniclackof centralised, accurate information about children in the work force.
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As soon as one looks for the underlying reason for that, one finds thechroniclackof investment over generations.
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There is achroniclackof storage space.
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