Example sentences of "persists to [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer to these questions lies in the intense international rivalry to be first with fusion , a rivalry that persists to this day . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A fierce and often unscrupulous controversy arose over the relative merits of vaccination and inoculation , which persists to this day in demography journals . |
| 4 | The tendency persists to this day . |
| 5 | This protection earned the soldiers the nickname of ‘ leathernecks ’ , which still persists to this day . |
| 6 | The distinction between Sunni and Shiite persists to this day . |