continuing evolution

collocation in English

meaningsofcontinueandevolution

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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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evolution
noun[U]
uk
/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən/us
/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən/
the way in which living things change and develop over millions ...
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(Definition ofcontinueandevolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The monotonic growth of scales (figure 17) gives the clearest measure ofcontinuingevolution.
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For a variety of reasons none was built, but they are notable and illustrate hiscontinuingevolutionas a designer.
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Thecontinuingevolutionof pulse-power technology dovetails nicely with the needs of the z-pinch research community.
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The sport today very much reflects the outcome of acontinuingevolution, founded on its long and rich history.
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Any argument that modernisation should now be complete ignores thecontinuingevolutionof new technology in farming, just as in every other industry.
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The overall scale of mobilisation will depend on thecontinuingevolutionof our contingency planning.
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There is thecontinuingevolutionof the privatised electricity industry, and the future of the coal industry, which is now the subject of privatisation proposals.
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I see the years ahead as years ofcontinuingevolutionin the organisation of the schools, but not of revolution.
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Continuingevolutionwill serve the population better than radical surgery, which cuts out the strategic overview currently managed by county councils.
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I have no doubt that we should havecontinuingevolutionin a modern society rather than revolutionary methods when we are dealing with matters of law reform.
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However, it marks acontinuingevolutionin the role of a local authority from being solely the provider of services to becoming an enabling body as well.
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Withoutcontinuingevolution, the ability to digest milk could never have arisen.
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These economies have usually hadcontinuingevolution, which allowed them to construct infrastructure to supply water to people.
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Thecontinuingevolutionof systems engineering comprises the development and identification of new methods and modeling techniques.
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The threats to the limitations of promissory estoppel, manifested from thecontinuingevolutionof promissory estoppel, may pose turbulence in contract law and open the flood gate to litigation.
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