Continuous Kənˈtɪnjuəs Improvement Employment Rain Adjective Bre Recovery

• recovery after the accident will be a continuous process that may take several months.
• stop smoking and you will see a continuous improvement in your health.
• she was in continuous employment until the age of sixty-five.
• the rain has been continuous since this morning.

continuous

1. happening or existing for a period of time without interruption
• Recovery after the accident will be a continuous process that may take several months.
• Stop smoking and you will see a continuous improvement in your health.
• She was in continuous employment until the age of sixty-five.
• The rain has been continuous since this morning.
2. spreading in a line or over an area without any spaces
• a continuous line of traffic
• Rain was falling outside in a continuous silver curtain.
3. repeated many times
• synonym continual
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• For four days the town suffered continuous attacks.
• Life was a continual struggle for them.
• = progressive
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/progressive_1
• the continuous tenses

Extra Examples

• Awards are based on continuous assessment of course work as well as a final examination.
• Do the exercise in one continuous flowing motion.
• Experiments were conducted in the continuous daylight of the Arctic summer.
• He watched television as if it was one continuous programme.
• I could hear a faint continuous noise.
• It was a week of almost continuous sunshine.
• It was the longest period of continuous growth in the company’s history.
• Progress in learning a language is continuous but uneven.
• She retired after 25 years’ continuous service with the company.
• The company said the reasons for closure were poor margins and continuous losses.
• The soldiers suffered continuous attacks for four days.
• The woollen mill has been in continuous production since the 18th century.
• These policies are vital for continuous improvement in economic performance.
• You need to have been in continuous employment for at least two years.
• a persistent/perpetual/continual/continuous problem

Word Origin

• mid 17th cent.: from Latin continuus ‘uninterrupted’, from continere ‘hang together’ (from con- ‘together with’ + tenere ‘hold’) + -ous.