successful marriage

collocation in English

meaningsofsuccessfulandmarriage

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successful
adjective
uk
/səkˈses.fəl/us
/səkˈses.fəl/
achieving the results wanted or ...
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marriage
noun
uk
/ˈmær.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈmer.ɪdʒ/
a legally accepted relationship between two people in which they live together, or the official ceremony that results ...
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(Definition ofsuccessfulandmarriagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Successfulmarriageis a very difficult attainment.
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That is the wrong basis for asuccessfulmarriage.
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There are three tests for asuccessfulmarriage.
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That is the nature of asuccessfulmarriage.
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Given the centrality of children to asuccessfulmarriageand to women's status, elders trivialized the sheltering of runaway, childless wives.
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This represents thesuccessfulmarriageof modern technology and advanced horticulture.
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Asuccessfulmarriagemust surely be a partnership preferably of equals.
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Those are what may make a difference to asuccessfulmarriagerather than the ease or otherwise of divorce.
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But it is difficult for us to determine just how long is required to make asuccessfulmarriage.
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I once asked a friend of mine who had asuccessfulmarriagewhat the recipe for it was.
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After that, the daughter made asuccessfulmarriageand had a family, and she and her second husband and the children were very happy.
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I speak as one of the lucky people who know that there is no happier human experience than asuccessfulmarriage.
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Children should at least be told the facts about how much moresuccessfulmarriageis for child rearing than anything else that has been tried.
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It is associated with long life,successfulmarriageand good fortune.
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It was her longest and mostsuccessfulmarriagewhich produced no children.
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By all accounts, it was an extremely happy andsuccessfulmarriage.
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Traits such as stability, sympathy, self-mastery, intelligence, and health produced the best chances for asuccessfulmarriage, he noted.
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The young couple struggled to survive during the depression, but ultimately had a long, happy,successfulmarriage.
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On top of that, they were home to many friendships, some rivalries, and spawned at least onesuccessfulmarriage.
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They embarked on what appeared to have been a happy andsuccessfulmarriage, though money was often short.
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He talks to the administrator and accepts an opening to teach a class on having asuccessfulmarriage.
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He had proposed after an almost momentary acquaintance, allegedly in very abrupt and peculiar terms; it seems to have been asuccessfulmarriage.
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He added that the single does hint at a few new tricks up the band's sleeve, and described it as asuccessfulmarriageof old and new.
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While there, he decides to teach a class of his own on the secrets of asuccessfulmarriage, since that is the only class he is qualified to teach.
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The work he did for them24 pieces including chairs, tables, storage units, sideboards and desksrepresented his firstsuccessfulmarriageof modern mass production to his traditionally high craft standards.
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