past generation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpastandgeneration
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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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(Definition ofpastandgenerationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Many lapses of order must have taken place unwittingly in thepastgeneration.
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In thepastgeneration, 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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Thepastgenerationor 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 apastgeneration.
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Thepastgenerationof workmen had as high a consideration of their class as the present.
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Like women in thepastgeneration, older adults represent a huge source of potential labor in what is now the very near future.
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In the minds of thepastgeneration, 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 thepastgeneration, forced the necessity upon the country of labour representation.
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The world has not stood still over thepastgeneration.
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Today these children get what the children of apastgenerationwere denied because their parents could not afford it.
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Its share of world trade has halved in thepastgeneration.
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Most of those costs relate topastgeneration.
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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 thepastgeneration.
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In effect, we are talking about apastgenerationwho lived under very different social standards.
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Looking back over thepastgenerationor 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 thepastgeneration.
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I hope that the mistakes of thepastgenerationwill 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 thepastgeneration.
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