sustainedsus‧tained /səˈsteɪnd/ AWL adjective [only before noun] 
Examples
a period of sustained economic development a sustained attack on the government
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Collocations- Fewer interactions, therefore, indicate more sustained conversations between teachers and their pupils.
- In addition to their amazing dives, peregrines are capable of long, sustained flight.
- In alcoholic liver disease, transplant assessment was considered appropriate in the case of sustained abstinence following medical advice.
- It did not mount a sustained challenge against globally-organised capitalism, concentrated state power or even prevailing discrimination against homosexuals.
- She felt battered into numbness by the sustained assault on her diminishing reserves.
- The sustained discipline required to keep accounts was boringly time-consuming and beyond the capabilities of most.
- The Government can not maintain conditions for sustained growth if they do not introduce such conditions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a sustained campaign
continuing for a long time: (=lasting a long time)· The organization has mounted a sustained campaign against the killing of endangered species.
► a sustained effort (=one that you continue making for a long time)· It will take a sustained effort over the next 5 years to achieve our objectives.
► a sustained recovery (=that continues for a long time)· Will these policies provide a basis for sustained recovery and sustained growth?
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► most· Labour said it would raise taxes and was subject to the most sustained derision, as well as black propaganda.· Nevertheless, the case of a 13-year-old being raped at knife-point in a Coventry churchyard received the most sustained coverage.· Masefield's unique narrative style is at its most sustained in these two novels.
NOUN► attack· The way lay open for a sustained attack on environmentalism.· Few animals can survive the sustained attack of this devastating army.· This initiated a sustained attack on the problem which produced the desired result eighteen months later.· A more sustained attack on the impact of advertising on the press can be found in James Curran's writings.
► effort· It requires sustained effort and leadership by management.· His eyes are dull with the sustained effort of anger.· This demands sincere and sustained effort by the individual.
► growth· Many had planned future campaigns on the basis of sustained growth.· Rather, they tell us what they told us last year - that they will maintain conditions for sustained growth.· The Government can not maintain conditions for sustained growth if they do not introduce such conditions.· Real convergence would mean similar and sustained growth rates, as well as similar inflation rates.· This is the only way to achieve sustained growth, based on net exports and investment demand.
► increase· The nature of the retrograde messenger may give clues to the processes responsible for the sustained increase in transmitter release.· During seizures, there was a sustained increase in extracellular glutamate to potentially neurotoxic concentrations in the epileptogenic hippocampus.· From then on there was a sustained increase in output and productivity, which has continued through to the 1980s.· These changes were accompanied by a greater and more sustained increase in energy intake in the steroid group.
► recovery· A Budget for sustained recovery and a Budget for jobs, said Mr Lamont.· The Conservatives have no policies which would mean sustained recovery, higher health care or improved educational standards.· But that can not and will not achieve sustained recovery - experience here and everywhere else proves that.
a period of sustained economic development a sustained attack on the government