keen interest

collocation in English

meaningsofkeenandinterest

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keen
adjective
uk
/kiːn/
us
/kiːn/
very interested, eager, or wanting (to do) something ...
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interest
noun
uk
/ˈɪn.trəst/
us
/ˈɪn.trɪst/
the feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more ...
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(Definition ofkeenandinterestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofkeen interest

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Ofkeeninterestto the author are risks associated with mandatory individual accounts.
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In brief, this is an enjoyable, well-researched, inspiring book that everybody with akeeninterestin performance and technology should consider reading.
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To preach akeeninterestin how architecture is actually made can be downright unpopular, especially within a school of architecture.
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Their bargaining power was even increased by the late colonial and post-independence governments'keeninterestin the rapid expansion of education.
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If they have found a component useful and have akeeninterestin avoiding the remote service call overhead, a tightly-coupled version may be created.
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He has published books and articles in the fields of historical linguistics, semantics, syntax and phonetics, in all of which he has akeeninterest.
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Successive ministers-general continued to take akeeninterestin the provision of lectors for the growing number of schools in the fraternity.
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So he learned the language, went to visit often, and took akeeninterestin the bioethical developments overseas.
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The authors examined what happened when a researcher, with akeeninterestin social justice, worked to support critical literacy among adolescent girls.
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In the recent past, there has been akeeninterestin using massively parallel architectures like neural networks as a learning mechanism.
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In common with the earlier studies it shows akeeninterestin the relative role of economic versus cultural explanations of demographic patterns.
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The observations of lessons confirmkeeninterestin this type of education, which is supported by special resources.
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He consistently built his career around national finance and expressedkeeninterestin balancing finance.
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A sense of pleasure was evident in his email writings; he showed perseverance with working through instructions to complete tasks and maintained akeeninterestthroughout the project.
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Developmental transitions engendered by normative changes in the individual, context, and their interactions holdkeeninterestfor the study of continuity and change in adaptive functioning for several reasons.
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Given the in depth analysis provided, it seems this book is targeted to an audience of researchers with akeenintereston the regulation of apoptosis.
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R took akeeninterestin her surroundings and recorded in some detail the places she visited and key landmarks.
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These publications and the developing teachers' press, reveal thekeeninterestof many schoolmistresses in the innovative pedagogical theories that were being elaborated on the continent.
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Rzewski has always shown akeeninterestin theatre, notably in a series of scores involving the declamation of texts.
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