| 词汇 | example_english_quarter-century |
| 释义 | quarter centurycollocation in Englishmeanings of quarterand centuryThese words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with quarter or century. quarter noun uk /ˈkwɔː.tər/ us /ˈkwɔːr.t̬ɚ/ one of four equal or almost equal parts of ... See more at quarter century noun[C] uk /ˈsen.tʃər.i/ us /ˈsen.tʃər.i/ a period of ... See more at century Examples of quarter 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. Sea-ice variability is high, but data from satellite remote sensing show a significant decrease in ice extent during the last quartercentury. The growth of demand will limit output growth for food over the next quartercentury. This activity in fact predates the radical sectarianism of the past quartercentury, though it has no doubt contributed to it. During the following quartercentury both government and the industry were faced with the task of bringing some kind of order to this sprawling machine-network. This article presents one of the more remarkable reviews of a quartercentury of pioneering research. But the authors remind us that the preceding quartercentury shows that doctors cannot be trusted either. He understood little of the art of government at which he remained an aesthete rather than a connoisseur despite a quartercentury of rule. Let's welcome it and hope that it's the springboard to a much, much slimmer successor a quartercentury or so from now. A notable effect of a quartercentury of market reforms is a quickening of the pace of life. It is now commonplace to read about the dramatic changes in the funding of science that have occurred in the last quartercentury. Over the next quartercentury he produced three books, each in its way remarkable. For at least a quartercentury the medical literature has documented the undertreatment of pain by physicians and other healthcare professionals. I don't know where to begin-it's been a tremendous quartercentury. We need hardly labour the irony of a reverse shift in literary and cultural theory over the past quartercentury. 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 quarter Go to the definition of century See other collocations with quarter See other collocations with century |
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