"possess" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Founded in 1822, the Print Room possesses art works from the sixteenth century until the present day.
- The first museum of art in Moscow did not possess any drawings until 1873.
- In addition to self-sacrifice, self-renunciation was also an imperative quality a Japanese woman had to possess until the dawn of the 20th century.
- The service possessed a combined fleet of diesel-electric and nuclear-powered submarines until the early 1990s.
- The town possessed its own school district until the 1920s when it merged with the other districts in the township.
- For example, humans probably did not possess the control of fire until the Middle Paleolithic, or tools necessary to engage in extensive fishing.
- But with the political parties firmly in control, reformers possessed no lever for change until Aug. 30.
- Joppe did not possess a bishop until the fifth century; a very small number of its Greek or Latin bishops are known.
- How was it possible in the late 1980s to put Trident into a bargaining regime, when we will not possess it until late 1994?
- Walbach possessed mental and physical vigor until an advanced age.
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