historic event
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhistoricandevent
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historic
adjective
uk/hɪˈstɒr.ɪk/us/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪk/
important or likely to be important ...
See more athistoric
event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofhistoricandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I think we are faced with an exceptionalhistoriceventwhich has its symbolic and real consequences.
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For many of those countries, this is the passport to a decent and secure future, so it was indeed anhistoricevent.
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This seems to me to be anhistoricevent.
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That is ahistoriceventin at least two senses.
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They are extremely disappointed and can think of all sorts of reasons to support this view, while others deem it a unique andhistoricevent.
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I refer to the secondhistoricevent, which is not of such long-standing duration but is in a sense of equal importance.
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However, that will not make the slightest difference to such anhistoricevent.
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Of course, 1992 has a much greater significance than thathistoricevent.
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It is true that the distance was set by anhistoricevent, but nevertheless there is an inbuilt protection for market traders.
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There is absolutely no doubt that the introduction of the euro is going to be anhistoricevent.
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That is the reason for the date of 2014 - one hundred years after thathistoricevent.
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This is anhistoriceventwhich fills us all with gratitude and humility.
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Therefore, the parents, it is not surprising, wished that their children should not be excluded from thishistoriceventin their own countryside.
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It is, for good or ill, a greathistoricevent.
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It is the living archive of everyhistoriceventthat has occurred in these islands for at least 1,000 years.
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The reuniting of our continent is a trulyhistoricevent.
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I am sure that we all join again in offering our warm congratulations on thishistoricevent.
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A past situation, ahistoricevent, cannot, as a matter of law or the correct interpretation of the charter, justify the imposition of sanctions now.
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