"colony" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They went up because speculators anticipated an exodus of the wealthy from Hong Kong when the colony reverted to China, but this did not happen.
- The former colony reverted to Chinese sovereignty in 1999 after 400 years of Portuguese rule.
- In 1997, the British colony reverts to China.
- Beijing pursued a similar campaign with Hong Kong investors before the British colony reverted to Chinese rule in 1997.
- In time these colonies would discover there was no such thing as a classless society and revert to the natural divisions.
- It has been nearly two years since this former British colony reverted to Chinese rule.
- The new legislature adopted the law hours after the colony reverted to Chinese rule in 1997.
- This British colony reverts to mainland control in 1997, but for years its economy has been inextricably bound to China's economy, and both are booming now.
- The commemoration of the killings was the first in Hong Kong since the former British colony reverted to Chinese rule.
- The colony will revert to Chinese control in 1997.
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