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We investigate the behaviour of a sequence $λ_{s}$, s = 1,2,..., of eigenvalues of the Dirichlet problem for the p-Laplacian in the domains $Ω_{s}$, s = 1,2,..., obtained by removing from a given domain Ω a set $E_{s}$ whose diameter vanishes when s → ∞. We estimate the deviation of $λ_{s}$ from the eigenvalue of the limit problem. For the derivation of our results we construct an appropriate asymptotic expansion for the sequence of solutions of the original eigenvalue problem.