steady improvement

collocation in English

meaningsofsteadyandimprovement

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steady
adjective
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/ˈsted.i/us
/ˈsted.i/
happening in a smooth, gradual, and regular way, not suddenly ...
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improvement
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/us
/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/
an occasion when something gets better or when you make ...
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(Definition ofsteadyandimprovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Next year, it will be up by another £5 million, and my noble friend looks forward to asteadyimprovement—but he emphasises the word "steady".
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They are training their staffs and there is asteadyimprovement.
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The longterm cure is thesteadyimprovementin the standard of living of the masses of the people everywhere.
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So far from getting more houses, there has been a steady deterioration where there should have been asteadyimprovement.
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There had been asteadyimprovementwhich had gone on all through the last hundred years.
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Crucially, they have also created the conditions forsteadyimprovementin our public services.
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I have referred very briefly to the second of these aims—a faster rate of sustained growth bringing asteadyimprovementin our standard of living.
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One is thesteadyimprovementin the quality of the work done in our colleges of education.
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There has been asteadyimprovementin supplies of children's shoes since last year.
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But, taking the subject in general, from 1921 to the middle of 1924, when the party opposite were in power, there was asteadyimprovement.
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It shows asteadyimprovementin primary education and it is significant.
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The loans play a valuable part in ensuring thesteadyimprovementof the quality of the stock.
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There has been asteadyimprovementamongst our people.
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There has been asteadyimprovementand advance in development and reinforcement.
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So there is asteadyimprovementin the uptake.
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As we have seen, thissteadyimprovementof the position is having its effect.
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Asteadyimprovementhas taken place in pupil-teacher ratios over many years.
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The overall picture is one ofsteadyimprovementin pensioners' incomes at all levels.
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We must move towards a situation ofsteadyimprovement.
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Then there is the question of maternal mortality, in which also there has been asteadyimprovement.
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