mixed success
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmixedandsuccess
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mixed
adjective
uk/mɪkst/us/mɪkst/
showing a mixture of different feelings ...
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success
noun
uk/səkˈses/us/səkˈses/
the achieving of the results wanted or ...
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(Definition ofmixedandsuccessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Over the past 5 years several other devices have been developed and implanted, with rathermixedsuccess.
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This was a dilemma that they were insistent on resolving by rejecting the ' welfare ' label, although withmixedsuccess.
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A detailed study of this major vasomotor symptom is presented using early types of ovarian extracts withmixedsuccess.
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If their efforts have met withmixedsuccess, it is because it is not easy to do so completely.
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Much effort and money has been spent trying to control malaria and diarrhoea but with limited andmixedsuccess.
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The editors have, made sparing use of illustration, and this too is amixedsuccess.
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The colour mapping mechanisms hadmixedsuccess.
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Buganda also engages in miscellaneous other entrepreneurial activities, such as party rentals and commercialising coffee seedlings, withmixedsuccess.
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But the identification of causal agents seemed to galvanize the efforts to clean up the environment that had been struggling on, withmixedsuccess, for decades.
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However, these results should be interpreted with caution, as development has proved to be elusive in many countries and development aid has hadmixedsuccess.
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We all recognise that they have had onlymixedsuccess.
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I recognise that the orders have had amixedsuccess.
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Other methods used abroad have met withmixedsuccess, but one might expect foreign subsidiary companies in this country to follow the same line.
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In 1929 a stock market company was formed but it met with verymixedsuccess.
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Oral appliances have amixedsuccessrate in treating sleep apnea.
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Hearing aids are sometimes prescribed, withmixedsuccess.
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He attempted withmixedsuccessto increase the supplies of rice to reduce the prices.
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Following 1938, classifying soil series according to the system met withmixedsuccess.
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While it is effective in providing procedural rights, a lower percentage of trading partners provide substantive standards, so this measure has hadmixedsuccess.
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