"relative" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Why did the Renaissance begin in Northern Italy, which had previously been a relative backwater?
- True even on a relative backwater like Earth, whose history he'd been reading up on last evening, again courtesy of the Teff-Langer Conglomerate.
- Wendel Dietterlin's book Architectura of 1593-4, produced in the relative backwater of Strasbourg, was the most extreme application of the style to architectural ornament.
- State law enforcement officials say they were initially baffled by the discovery that an international drug cartel had put up stakes in such a relative backwater of criminal activity.
- One might consider such a project to be hardly worthwhile, because available evidence suggested that this region was a relative backwater even in Indian terms.
- But Tatham Mound was in a relative backwater and related to an obscure culture; it lacked the interest of more dramatic discoveries.
- The city of Jerusalem, at the start of Jawhariyyeh's writing in 1904, was described as, "a relative backwater of the Ottoman Empire.
- Despite these gains, small-company international funds remain a relative backwater in a rushing tide of cash toward stock mutual funds.
- During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the village drifted gently on, a relative backwater.
- It became a relative backwater of the Ottoman Empire only to rise to prominence again following union with Greece.
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