keen eye

collocation in English

meaningsofkeenandeye

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations witheye.
keen
adjective
uk
/kiːn/us
/kiːn/
very interested, eager, or wanting (to do) something ...
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eye
noun[C]
uk
/aɪ/us
/aɪ/
one of the two organs in your face that are used ...
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(Definition ofkeenandeyefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofkeen eye

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There is also akeeneyeto elisions and the differences within successive versions.
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He has akeeneyefor detail and celebrates the inanity of everyday life.
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Indeed, reading between the lines of his more technical works, one can find akeeneyefor local difference.
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This is a challenging and in many respects highly persuasive thesis, enlivened throughout by the author'skeeneyefor significant connections.
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The author's dogged research andkeeneyefor detail have produced a book likely to become standard reading in the field.
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The family kept akeeneyeon the day-to-day management of the pits.
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Writing with characteristic good humor, she highlights rather than elides the inconsonant, revealing akeeneyefor the ridiculous and the dramatically comic throughout her travels and many adventures.
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The critical dialogue should not be there to ease our conscience, while we in the meantime keep akeeneyeon our own economic interests.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The paper has akeeneyefor a scoop and none of us would criticise it on that score.
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Those who have responsibilities in business, who have to keep a verykeeneyeon world conditions and tendencies, see very little hope.
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There is no doubt that this is something which ought to be looked at with a new andkeeneye.
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We have to keep a verykeeneyeon the issue.
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I simply mean someone with akeeneyefor a market.
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I am keeping akeeneyeon the clock.
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I will certainly keep akeeneyeon all that is happening.
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Step by step, we are facing new challenges, building on our achievements, but always with akeeneyeon the public's expectations and concerns.
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I am sorry to hear that he is devastated, but we are grateful to him for his sharp andkeeneye.
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I hope that he will keep akeeneyeon expenditure.
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That is extremely important and should be borne in mind, and it is something on which the voluntary organisations will obviously keep akeeneye.
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As such, they will have akeeneyefor places where they can be fairly confident that their services will be in demand.
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