"single" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This incident was the single worst catastrophe in the history of military broadcasting.
- It was not a single catastrophe, but a parade of them, a concatenation of terrors.
- Finally, island populations are typically small and thus more likely to be obliterated by a single catastrophe - hurricane, disease, invading snake.
- Lloyd's has said claims from the attacks of Sept. 11 will cost it some $1.92 billion, its biggest loss ever from a single catastrophe.
- Although sometimes interpreted as the result of a single catastrophe, the Bernissart finds instead are now interpreted as recording multiple events.
- The agreement appeared to have averted, at least temporarily, what has threatened to become the largest single catastrophe of the Bosnian war.
- In Cuvier's landmark 1796 paper on living and fossil elephants, he referred to a single catastrophe that destroyed life to be replaced by the current forms.
- Finding a whole city and its occupants buried whole in a single catastrophe fills us with excitement.
- The accident at Chernobyl was the world's largest single catastrophe of the decade.
- He discovered that they had formed over a long period of time, and not the result of a single large catastrophe, as was previously believed.
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