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past generation

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past
adjective
uk /pɑːst/ us /pæst/
used to refer to a period of time before and until ...
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generation
noun
uk /ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
all the people of about the same age within a society or within a ...
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Examples of past generation


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Many lapses of order must have taken place unwittingly in the pastgeneration.
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In the pastgeneration, sport, tourism and leisure have grown to become one of the largest and most important contributors to today's modern economy.
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The pastgeneration or so has seen a massive immigration of people of different backgrounds, cultures, religions, nationalities and ways of life into this country.
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They will not go, and we have not now the stern disciplinarians of a pastgeneration.
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The pastgeneration of workmen had as high a consideration of their class as the present.
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Like women in the pastgeneration, older adults represent a huge source of potential labor in what is now the very near future.
In the minds of the pastgeneration, the submarine cable was considered to be the last word in scientific invention.
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We say you have, by the circumstances and events of the pastgeneration, forced the necessity upon the country of labour representation.
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The world has not stood still over the pastgeneration.
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Today these children get what the children of a pastgeneration were denied because their parents could not afford it.
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Its share of world trade has halved in the pastgeneration.
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Most of those costs relate to pastgeneration.
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Politically, culturally and intellectually—in terms of mass culture and elite culture—it has played a dominant part in our lives during the pastgeneration.
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In effect, we are talking about a pastgeneration who lived under very different social standards.
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Looking back over the pastgeneration or so, we find that people have better lives in many ways.
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We all greatly admire its magnificent political and economic achievements over the pastgeneration.
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I hope that the mistakes of the pastgeneration will not be visited on its successors.
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In the rural areas, on the other hand, we have less transport now in many villages than we have had for the pastgeneration.
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