Object

• inequality: Against a background of significant and persisting health inequalities, NHS staff have demonstrated that they are able to rise to demanding challenges.

• symptom: Wide range of persisting symptoms, up to at least six months.

• today: The substage fitting is made to the ' continental ' standard which persists today.

• self: If this is Heideggerian authenticity, then Heideggerian authenticity is compatible with lack of any belief in the persisting self.

Preposition: into

• adulthood: However some problems, such as poor spelling, may persist into adulthood.

Adjective complement

• unchanged: As her symptoms persisted unchanged over the following 7 days, the decision was taken to explore the wound.

Modifying Another Word

• indefinitely: If none do, limited statism will persist indefinitely, by popular demand, with only minor anarchist disruptions.

• nevertheless: Mr Alexander nevertheless persisted on Mr Noueiri's behalf.

• still: Yet rural organized criminal gangs still persist in isolated sections of the nation.

Used with why or when

• when: The habit of relaxing, playing and working in common acquired in childhood persists when male members of a cluster reach adult status.

Preposition: in

• spite: When pain persists in spite of medical treatment, as is the case in chronic pain syndromes, the issues become complex.

• soil: Persistence and Spread: The seeds are not thought to persist in soil.

• sin: As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.

• environment: The radiation from these bombs persists in the environment for thousands of years.

• belief: Rather fewer, I would say, persist in that optimistic belief.

• prayer: But just persisting in prayer is a valid form of prayer, whatever we are feeling at the time.

Preposition: for

• while: Early fog persisted for a while in Northern Ireland, while in S England there was prolonged sunshine from dawn to dusk.

• duration: Requests for help only persist for the duration of their login.

• days.: These cumulative effects may persist for several days. 8-33.

• month: The virus will persist for many months on the fur or feet of the new contact.