useful lesson
collocation in Englishmeaningsofusefulandlesson
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useful
adjective
uk/ˈjuːs.fəl/us/ˈjuːs.fəl/
effective; helping you to do or ...
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lesson
noun[C]
uk/ˈles.ən/us/ˈles.ən/
a period of time in which a person is taught about a subject or how to ...
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(Definition ofusefulandlessonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Yet anotherusefullessonis that a 'don't know' answer to a question can often be quite a meaningful response.
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May it be a great,usefullesson!
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The experiences of other countries are, of course, so entirely different from our own that nousefullessoncan be drawn from them at all.
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The shortage of scientists, technologists and technicians is providing a veryusefullessonto the public in the value of education.
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I do not believe that it will provide anyusefullesson.
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This alone has ausefullessonto teach us.
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I do not believe that it can provide anyusefullesson.
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It proved a veryusefullesson.
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The way they did that in a month or two is ausefullessonto us.
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That would also be ausefullessonto investors.
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Or was it for some other reason, such as disease, environmental damage or pollution, from which we could learn ausefullessonto safeguard the future of our cockle industry?
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That was ausefullesson.
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In short, it has all been ausefullessonin taking our time over this process of scrutiny and getting into the act at an early stage.
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Building a school for a community is less successful than building a school with a communityausefullessonto teach volunteers.
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The contributors hope that this discussion will provide developing countries with useful lessons in the choice and evaluation of alternative institutional arrangements.
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As such, the book provides useful lessons for all those concerned with providing an inadequate income for women in old age.
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In the course of discussing the content of the work, we can, with a little effort, draw in other useful lessons as well.
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The chapter on patient holding has useful lessons for practitioners in both high-prevalence and low-prevalence countries.
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This then provides useful lessons that are applied in addressing the link between natural resources and civil wars.
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An understanding of the developments made in improving the ability of organisations to manage the risk of catastrophes occurring may provide useful lessons for child protection services.
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