continuing development

collocation in English

meaningsofcontinueanddevelopment

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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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development
noun
uk
/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/us
/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/
the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes ...
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(Definition ofcontinueanddevelopmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We hope these interest you in this unique, broad, and exciting field, and invite you to join us in itscontinuingdevelopment.
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This system of funding also conflicted with thecontinuingdevelopmentof care in the community.
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Alongside the commercial device there iscontinuingdevelopmentof the hardware and software environment of the manipulator.
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Spike-and-wave discharges of absence seizures as a transformation of sleep spindles: thecontinuingdevelopmentof a hypothesis.
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While these facilities typically include some type of multimedia production environment, arts departments often do not seem to play a major role in theircontinuingdevelopment.
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These faults can be mended through thecontinuingdevelopmentof teachers' skills and support of their needs.
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This emphasis on thecontinuingdevelopmentof linguistic proficiency across the lifespan seems to me to be one of the most important contributions of the paper.
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Here, again, we have an important andcontinuingdevelopmentwhich could provide the basis for genetic improvement.
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We are celebrating the 22nd month of reductions in the unemployment figures, and we are celebrating the exciting andcontinuingdevelopmentof our economic story.
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Yet there is massive andcontinuingdevelopmentof skiing, mountaineering, hill walking and associated activities.
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We look forward to thecontinuingdevelopmentof the peace process through the final-status discussions.
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That would clearly have been detrimental to thecontinuingdevelopmentof the peace settlement that we are all seeking to achieve.
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It is part of thecontinuingdevelopmentof the inspectorate as a performance-driven, customer-aware and value-formoney organisation.
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I look forward to a time when thecontinuingdevelopmentand improvement of the economy will enable us to improve that position.
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There will becontinuingdevelopmentof this nature.
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The first is thecontinuingdevelopmentof medical science and techniques.
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The new clause would allow the enforcement of stop notices, preventing thecontinuingdevelopmentof sites.
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To secure theircontinuingdevelopment, as resources allow, in response to needs.
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The improvement of the accuracy of measurements of particulate and benzene in vehicle exhausts depends on thecontinuingdevelopmentof measuring equipment.
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