| 词汇 | example_english_previous-century |
| 释义 | previous centurycollocation in Englishmeanings of previousand centuryThese words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with century. previous adjective[before noun] uk /ˈpriː.vi.əs/ us /ˈpriː.vi.əs/ happening or existing before something or ... See more at previous century noun[C] uk /ˈsen.tʃər.i/ us /ˈsen.tʃər.i/ a period of ... See more at century Examples of previous centuryThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. It is no wonder that codeswitching has been studied extensively since the middle of the previouscentury. Students also wrote interesting comparisons between their lives and those of their counterparts in a previouscentury. They did so because these beliefs had been discredited by the tumultuous events of the previouscentury. However, the figurative, or programmatic, music of the previouscentury tried to bring into the concert all stylised birds, storms and galloping horses. My forthcoming study of musical transmission between the two cities, including a new source, will extend the link back into the previouscentury. This partnership no longer rested upon the ideology of the previouscentury, according to which philanthropic organisations should pay special attention to the deserving poor. Its equipment was that of the previouscentury. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am thinking back to the previouscentury. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our present situation will soon be "in the previouscentury". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Things were done rather better during the previouscentury. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The previouscentury witnessed a dramatic improvement in longevity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By the mid-nineteenth century the images of provincial urban manufacture in circulation owed less and less to the modest vignette model inherited from the previouscentury. Considerable movements of population have been caused by wars between nations, inter-ethnic conflict and other kinds of violence, on a scale unimaginable in any previouscentury. More was passed in the previouscentury than in this century. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We may have done so in the previouscentury, but we are not doing so now. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was felt that we were living in the previouscentury. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the previouscentury—in 1700—an inquiry was undertaken, but no action has been taken. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This was mainly because of the great success it had had in the previouscentury. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should like to compare the present situation with that which pertained in the previouscentury. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 During the previouscentury there was an institution of government funding for institutions of higher education. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Precedents on reforming adoption legislation were set at the end of the previouscentury. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have understood that since the great public health reforms of the previouscentury. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Like another great man in a previouscentury he cried "peace" when nobody wanted peace. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It mirrors and parallels the rise and fall in the previouscentury of socialism itself. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Want to learn more? Go to the definition of previous Go to the definition of century See other collocations with century |
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