Six years ago, Ms. Jenkins reluctantly gave up her permanent ensemble.

I was going to Stratford to try to start a new and permanent ensemble.

The musicians have sought in recent negotiations to establish the orchestra as a permanent ensemble rather than a freelance group.

The musicians said that the orchestra's status as a unified, permanent ensemble was not negotiable.

Much of the memorable chamber music literature was written before permanent and professional ensembles ever existed.

Unlike its predecessor, the new company was not a permanent ensemble with a recognisable style.

The orchestra became a permanent ensemble in 1914.

It is a piece, I suspect, that works better in the hands of permanent ensembles with unified sounds.

Given the players' individual commitments and geographical dispersion, a permanent ensemble was impractical.

The opera company grew there into a permanent ensemble in the 1930s.