past century
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpastandcentury
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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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century
noun[C]
uk/ˈsen.tʃər.i/us/ˈsen.tʃər.i/
a period of ...
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(Definition ofpastandcenturyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpast century
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Crop yields have increased very significantly over thepastcentury.
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Can they illuminate the great tragedies of thepastcentury?
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Over thepastcenturythe landscape has experienced degradation rather than 'historical growth'.
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This is an unusually brilliant and remarkably concise examination of environmental change in thepastcentury.
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Over thepastcentury, the structure of agriculture has changed dramatically.
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During thepastcenturyintellectual trends have implicitly supported a set of assumptions about genetic research.
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Intelligent techniques for e-commerce have drawn increasing attention since the end of thepastcentury.
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After all, thepastcenturyhas brought with it a fairly steady increase in longevity and improvement in health.
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The neutral and atheistic culture, which strongly influenced architecture over thepastcentury, is in a state of defence.
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Indeed, the authors' decision to analyze thepastcenturyof data may actually understate the returns on equity markets.
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This hypothesis is made plausible by the generalizability that field theory has shown over thepastcentury.
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In fact, similar healing techniques and the myth that shaped them were last documented in thepastcentury.
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Migration of the professional classes, in particular lawyers and doctors, had been slowly taking place over thepastcentury.
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Over thepastcentury, an art form has emerged between the realms of visual art and music.
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In thepastcentury, plenty of crisp drawingroom comedy has been sustained precisely by such an inversion of class expectations.
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No doubt this is because, with the reduction in fertility of thepastcentury, the observed differentials appear less striking and seem less significant.
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It is perhaps more useful to note that the diagnostic category has expanded significantly over thepastcentury, incorporating ever milder and more ambiguous behaviors.
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Looking back now at the experience of thepastcenturyfrom a less partisan perspective, on the contrary, reveals ever more of its common trends.
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The number of people aged 65 years or over has increased during thepastcentury, from 8% of the population in 1900 to 17.4% today.
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Although it has always been present in mathematical research, reflexive thinking has become increasingly central to mathematics over thepastcentury.
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Questions have arisen during thepastcenturyabout postmortem disclosure of information about powerful and famous (but not so much about infamous) people.
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Chapter 9 surveys the ways that the conflict has been commemorated and recalled both fictionally and factually over thepastcentury.
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Many of the discrepancies between speaker cohorts are direct reflections of dramatic societal changes over thepastcenturyand a half.
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It finds expression in a general reluctance within the discipline to engage with genuine art or contemporary trends in music over thepastcentury.
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Accompanied by changes in farming practice, including fertiliser and pest and disease control, average yields have been increased many times over during thepastcentury.
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