"wave" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Relative to its overall population, Nicaragua has never experienced any large-scale immigrant waves.
- The history of New York City can be described as a series of immigrant waves.
- However, the members of the immigrant wave in the 1960s and 1970s are gradually moving further into the peripheral districts.
- But Dade officials say the latest immigrant wave comes as there are no vacant schools.
- For another, he added, the very size of the immigrant waves has forced the county to come up with inventive programs.
- The police say that unlike other immigrant waves, particularly the Cuban surge in 1980, this one has brought no rash of crime.
- The immigrant wave touched every corner of the city.
- Among the remaining 20 percent (those descended from the population residing locally before this immigrant wave took shape in the 1870s), around a third were white.
- Among the remaining 20% (those descended from the population residing locally before this immigrant wave took shape), around a fifth were of mainly European descent.
- Today, Westgarth retains its southern European presence, with many children of the 1960s and 1970s immigrant wave still living in the area.
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