"retain a list" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to keeping track of items, such as a shopping list, a list of names, or a list of tasks. For example, "I need to retain a list of people to invite to my party."
The most startling issue for us is that there is still no certainty that Guoco will actually retain a listing, thus negating the 'additional' assurances that the board now feels it has with regards Guoco's intentions.
As far as we view the situation, there is no guarantee that Guoco will retain a listing if, at 15 July 2001, it has more than 75% of the shares in Rank.
Daniel Ivery, author of the excellent Often Partisan website and a book investigating the years under Yeung – a former hairdresser – entitled Haircuts and League Cups, has concluded BIHL is keeping the club because it wants to retain a listed company on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
And some suspect that Mr Davis would want to incorporate the new company in Switzerland, with its low taxes, rather than retain a listing in South Africa.A few analysts regard Anglo's swift rebuff of Xstrata as a sign that China's Chinalco or Vale of Brazil may be poised to make a better offer.
On the other side, AOL Time Warner (which owns Netscape, the rival browser to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and offers a number of other competing products and services) and its allies have spent comparable amounts and retained a list of luminaries.
We retained a list of all pairs of SNPs with r > 0.5.
In experiment 3, subjects retained a list of five words (animals or everyday objects) in memory during the natural sound stimulation and subsequently matched it with a second word list in scrambled order.
But to a proud Stephen George & Partners, "the scheme has been meticulously designed to retain a locally listed building dating back to 1874".
He says he has a better idea: to pay $14 a share, up to a limit of 72% of the company, and retain a stockmarket listing.
