"old" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Much of the old governing elite died in the disaster.
- The coup only lasted a few days, however, as it lacked the support of the old elite and the population.
- Apparently the old elite does not rate exercise as a high priority.
- The old elite was becoming more isolated and less feared.
- Her father had been a member of the old elite.
- As such the power base had gradually shifted from the old elite to the newer one.
- "Real reform would tear away the old elite's control over the economy," he said.
- The new middle class was solidly in control by the 1870s and the old elite had all but vanished.
- He saw that the revolution had replaced the old elite with a new one.
- The old elite, he says, had already come to this conclusion when it was overthrown.
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