limited success
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflimitedandsuccess
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limited
adjective
uk/ˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/us/ˈlɪm.ɪ.t̬ɪd/
small in amount ...
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success
noun
uk/səkˈses/us/səkˈses/
the achieving of the results wanted or ...
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The female students already enrolled protested this sudden ban, withlimitedsuccess.
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An alternative of extracting market premiums for good environmental practices has had onlylimitedsuccess and is difficult to apply universally to remedy general problems.
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Thelimitedsuccessin establishing the parasite in a laboratory definitive host prompted the decision to attempt host immunosuppression.
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However, unlike compressible turbulent boundary layers, models for free shear flows have met with onlylimitedsuccess.
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Management of chronic pain is a real challenge, and current treatments that focus on blocking neurotransmission in the pain pathway have resulted inlimitedsuccess.
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In all banana-growing countries, nematodes are controlled, withlimitedsuccess, by the application of environmentally harmful and expensive nematicides.
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They were treated with beta adrenoceptor blockers and intravascular expansion withlimitedsuccess.
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The findings also are encouraging when viewed in terms of the relativelylimitedsuccessthat has been achieved by prior intervention studies in this area.
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We consider that we have had somelimitedsuccessin achieving this.
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The first reason for this shift is thelimitedsuccessof the "individual behavior change" approach, discussed earlier.
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While some success with trading in the air pollution context has occurred, there has beenlimitedsuccessin water-quality issues.
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Given the breadth of these fields any such book could only achievelimitedsuccessat best.
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However, these modalities have providedlimitedsuccessin bridging the academic divide.
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Efforts to create uniform state coal mining laws had predictablylimitedsuccess.
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Treatment approaches have traditionally concentrated either on pharmacological or cognitive strategies with onlylimitedsuccess.
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The reasons for thelimitedsuccessof this stage of the campaign are similar to those of the first.
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Both measures had only alimitedsuccess, even on their own terms.
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However, this approach has to date met withlimitedsuccess.
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However, onlylimitedsuccesshas been obtained until now.
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