sustained interest
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsustainedandinterest
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sustained
adjective
uk/səˈsteɪnd/us/səˈsteɪnd/
continuing for a ...
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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 ofsustainedandinterestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There are probably a number of reasons for thesustainedinterest.
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For decades there has beensustainedinterestin the design, implementation and evaluation of parallel functional languages.
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They were then largely written by economists, either academic or professional, who had asustainedinterestin history.
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As inflation comes down there will be the opportunity forsustainedinterestrate reductions.
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The degree ofsustainedinterestby professional, educational, parent, governor and local authority organisations has been a tremendous encouragement.
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I am well aware of hersustainedinterestin leave rights for adoptive parents.
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We all know his longsustainedinterestin music.
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I have taken asustainedinterestin the society's activities.
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There is asustainedinterest; and, after all, newspaper proprietors print the news that interests people.
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I want to give him credit for thesustainedinterestthat he has shown in the subject.
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We have very high andsustainedinterestrates which have imposed an intolerable burden on industry.
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We are making progress and there must besustainedinterestin doing so through to 2015.
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It is difficult for the laity really to understand and to keep asustainedinterestin the regulations of the medical curricula and the medical examinations.
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He introduced it with a fund of background knowledge about the environment, drawn from acute observations of the issues and hissustainedinterestin the subject over many years.
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I should like to acknowledge with great gratitude hissustainedinterestin this and kindred matters that affect so closely the life of the working classes.
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This debate, as has been said, has come at last, and most of the people who have taken part have asustainedinterestin and knowledge of the subject.
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No mere summary of contents can possibly convey the full merit of this book; its balance, perspective andsustainedinterest.
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Its repeated printings, either despite or because of its banned status, show thesustainedinterestin the piece throughout the sixteenth-century.
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This is a type of conversational narcissism; the tendency of listeners to turn the topic of conversations to themselves without showingsustainedinterestin others listening.
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