valuable lesson
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvaluableandlesson
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valuable
adjective
uk/ˈvæl.jə.bəl/us/ˈvæl.jə.bəl/
worth a lot ...
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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 ofvaluableandlessonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In addition, the healthcare industry can learn avaluablelessonby implementing a concept quite familiar to technology companies known as value chains.
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The outcome was anothervaluablelessonthat was incorporated into the army's written doctrine.
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Henry's experience in human rights had taught him avaluablelesson: change is best achieved incrementally.
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It was clear that the women had also gained avaluablelessonin how they could use the democratic process to achieve the kind of government they believed they wanted.
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We must take this as avaluablelessonand apply it in the preparations for all the stages in the process of integration.
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I will examine that later on, because it contains avaluablelesson.
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That is avaluablelessonfor all to learn.
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That is avaluablelessonthat we should all take on board.
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It was avaluablelessonthat we would do well to learn.
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It is an example of the kind ofvaluablelessonthat we can learn from a proper interpretation of the situation.
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There is a wider issue on which we can learn avaluablelesson.
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That was avaluablelessonfor us all.
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The crisis has taught us a painful, but all the morevaluablelessonfor the future.
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That taught me avaluablelesson.
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It is constructive contribution from which other countries might well learn a mostvaluablelesson.
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Children must be able to obtain books and learn thevaluablelessonof reading books of all sorts.
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I hope that avaluablelessonhas been learnt.
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I think that conveys a rathervaluablelessonfor us.
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Would he not agree that this is avaluablelessonand is it not important that the world should know that the gunboat would arrive?
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That may be a veryvaluablelessonfor us to learn.
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