"possession" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- With the loss of the French possessions the older cases of the kind disappeared.
- For reasons that remain unclear, no attempt was made to spike other allied guns while they were in French possession.
- Reunion, a French possession since 1638, has a multiracial population of 600,000.
- It is important to be clear about the extent and status of those south-western French possessions.
- The economic consequences of the French possession to the company were significant; it did not pay any dividends for more than 20 years.
- It has been a French possession since 1897.
- In 1802 the island became a French possession, and its economy flourished.
- That is another former French possession, now under Syrian colonization.
- The islands of Guadeloupe have been a French possession since 1635.
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