Example sentences of "persist to [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | This division of labour by artefact type epitomises attitudes towards archaeology generally at that time , and such divisions have to a large extent persisted to this day , emphasising how artefact-based early Anglo-Saxon studies have remained . |
| 2 | The answer to these questions lies in the intense international rivalry to be first with fusion , a rivalry that persists to this day . |
| 3 | The connection of deafness with the Dukes of Devonshire persists to this day : the 11th Duke is Patron of the National Deaf Children 's Society , and also of the Royal School for the Deaf , Derby . |
| 4 | A fierce and often unscrupulous controversy arose over the relative merits of vaccination and inoculation , which persists to this day in demography journals . |
| 5 | The tendency persists to this day . |
| 6 | This protection earned the soldiers the nickname of ‘ leathernecks ’ , which still persists to this day . |
| 7 | The distinction between Sunni and Shiite persists to this day . |
| 8 | If this is not the image that most people have about mental handicap hospitals it is because their concept of such places is founded on the attitudes toward mental handicap prevalent in society , and on various myths surrounding mental handicap which persist to this day . |