ongoing effort

collocation in English

meaningsofongoingandeffort

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ongoing
adjective
uk
/ˈɒŋˌɡəʊ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈɑːnˌɡoʊ.ɪŋ/
continuing to exist or develop, or happening at the ...
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effort
noun
uk
/ˈef.ət/us
/ˈef.ɚt/
physical or mental activity needed to ...
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(Definition ofongoingandeffortfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This survey represents anongoingeffortto measure economic freedom across countries.
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This is anongoingeffort, and there are still some promising leads that may pay off in the future.
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This project is anongoingeffortto design a standard high-level model of generic concepts that will be relevant to a broad range of domains.
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Although theongoingeffortto deepen and radicalise surely merits attention, what strikes us by this point is how futile, even self-defeating, the effort had become.
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They are part of ourongoingeffortto reduce burdens on business.
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I believe that this issue of coordination will requireongoingeffortand fine-tuning.
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We vigorously condemn such sentences, which can only be seen as part of theongoingeffortto intimidate and humiliate these peaceful women campaigners.
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This is now anongoingeffort.
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Since the war ended, there has been a massive,ongoingeffortto recover all of these works.
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Proceeds from the journal have been used in anongoingeffortto raise money and awareness for various orphan-related humanitarian causes.
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There is currently anongoingeffortto raise funding for a planned restoration of the station shelters to their original 19th century condition.
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There has been anongoingeffortsince the early 1990s to develop the riverfront for recreational use.
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Development of tourism is a concerted,ongoingeffort.
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The group claims the attack was part of anongoingeffortby officials to stop the organization's reporting on police corruption.
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Thisongoingeffortincorporates both new research locations and sampling sites dating back to the 1940s.
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The preservation of the bay's water quality has been anongoingeffortof several public and private organizations.
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The individual lands were acquired beginning in 1970 by purchasing plots from willing landowners, and anongoingeffortto continue to increase area.
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Thus, resolving the phylogeny and taxonomy of the underwing moths is anongoingeffort, which has made (as of 2011) little progress.
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This term was directly inspired by theongoingeffortto sequence the human genetic codeto build a genome.
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Consequently, the development of pathogen inactivation/reduction technologies for blood products has been anongoingeffortin the field of transfusion medicine.
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