lasting improvement

collocation in English

meaningsoflastingandimprovement

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lasting
adjective
uk
/ˈlɑː.stɪŋ/us
/ˈlæs.tɪŋ/
continuing to exist for a long time or ...
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improvement
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/us
/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/
an occasion when something gets better or when you make ...
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(Definition oflastingandimprovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Most patients in our group had at least a short-term improvement in mental status as well as significant andlastingimprovementin analgesia.
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I utterly reject the idea reflected in the amendment that anylastingimprovementcould be achieved by a massive increase of public spending.
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Good communications are central to our overall aim of alastingimprovementin everyone's quality of life.
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However, sanctions will not bring about alastingimprovementin this situation.
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A genuinelastingimprovementusually means more investment.
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That is proof oflastingimprovementin investment performance.
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I am sure that they will result in a substantial andlastingimprovementin efficiency and profitability.
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Our present economic strategy offers the best hope of alastingimprovementin employment prospects.
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We hope that the positive climate that has recently developed will be a step towards a morelastingimprovementin relations between the countries.
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The power must be shared if there is to be alastingimprovementin good industrial relations practice.
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That could all too easily undermine the success over inflation, on which the prospects of alastingimprovement in competitiveness, and ultimately employment, must depend.
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Lastingimprovementrequires major institutional reforms to promote adaptability in the labour market.
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That means that the lottery will make alastingimprovementto this country's cultural facilities.
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Is that not the real, genuine way in which to achieve alastingimprovementin employment?
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But as well as remedying immediate shortages, it is vital to bring alastingimprovementin the raw material position.
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There has been no fundamental orlastingimprovementin productivity or the economy.
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Nolastingimprovementcan be achieved simply by boosting public expenditure and public borrowing.
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For alastingimprovementin output and employment it is important that that continues.
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That lies at the loot of anylastingimprovementin the conditions of the country.
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Modernisation of the system is necessary to secure alastingimprovementin people's health and to tackle inequalities.
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