"century" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The preceding century had already witnessed many campaigns for new projections with little visible result.
- Despite this, there was no return to the mass mutinies of the preceding century.
- The first and last words identified in each edition as representing the preceding century were:
- In the preceding century, Spain experienced three major civil wars, 26 revolutions and 109 changes of government.
- In the preceding century, it built a free primary school system that by 1850 was more widely attended than the system of any other nation.
- Its profit in recent years is of a magnitude far different from that of the preceding century or so.
- Scanning back over the preceding century, there had been a lot of travel between the worlds up until about fifty years ago.
- The population had increased eight-fold during the preceding century, from a base figure of about 100,000, and comprised nearly 50 per cent children.
- In the preceding century, the state had gradually curtailed peasants' rights to move from one landlord to another.
- Basically, though, the essential features of the political system were those established in the preceding century.
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