continuing deficit

collocation in English

meaningsofcontinueanddeficit

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continue
verb
uk
/kənˈtɪn.juː/us
/kənˈtɪn.juː/
to keep happening, existing, or doing something, or to cause something or someone to ...
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deficit
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdef.ɪ.sɪt/us
/ˈdef.ə.sɪt/
the total amount by which money spent is more than ...
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(Definition ofcontinueanddeficitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Nevertheless, some of the children showed a degree ofcontinuingdeficit.
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There is a problem of acontinuingdeficitwhere the end cannot yet be seen.
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Is that not the real reason for the present and apparentlycontinuingdeficit?
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But if they do not do that, then there will be acontinuingdeficit.
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We have that continuance still, acontinuingdeficit; and every suggestion we have made has been disregarded.
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But imports rose over the year, too, and thecontinuingdeficitis serious.
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Last year there was a deficit, and you may be sure there will be acontinuingdeficitas time goes on.
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This may be due in part to a rise in oil prices, but if there is acontinuingdeficit, we shall see little growth in trade in the developed world.
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Economists have long noticed that in that year we appeared to change from a nation with a steady positive balance of trade to a nation with acontinuingdeficit.
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But one thing is clear: it has all been thrown away now, and the forecasts of acontinuingdeficitduring 1974 are factors that have to be taken into account.
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There is nocontinuingdeficit.
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There has been since then acontinuingdeficit, which has varied in the last decade from something like £3,000,000 down to the figure of between £1,500,000 and £1,250,000 at which it stands now.
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