brief history
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbriefandhistory
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brief
adjective
uk/briːf/us/briːf/
lasting only a short time or containing ...
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history
noun
uk/ˈhɪs.tər.i/us/ˈhɪs.t̬ɚ.i/
(the study of or a record of) past events considered together, especially events of a particular period, country, ...
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(Definition ofbriefandhistoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Abriefhistoryof empowerment of population and rising birth rates.
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The lesson from thisbriefhistoryis quite clear - the fewer the consequences, the more opportunity for aggressive political play.
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Thisbriefhistorycannot do justice to a complex and brutal war, but it raises an important point.
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Abriefhistoryof empowerment are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
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The dictionary has lists of rhyming slang and of backslang, both prefaced by abriefhistoryand discussion.
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Abriefhistoryof the above theorem is as follows.
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We begin with abriefhistoryof manic depression0bipolar disorder and review the phenomenology of mania in adults.
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First, however, abriefhistoryof the country's social-pension programme is presented.
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We do make contact with some, but not all, of other topics in the final part of this article and in thebriefhistorybelow.
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In this section, we only describe the setup, abriefhistoryand some relevant references on the original settings for each problem.
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As such, his book certainly fills a gap in the city's historiography - a relativelybriefhistoryof the city.
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Abriefhistoryof the development of public use datasets for research in ageing is provided, and datasets of particular interest are described.
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Section 4 presents abriefhistoryof the development of diagramming.
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It provides abriefhistoryof syllabus design and a rationale for moving beyond syllabus as the primary construct for curriculum planning.
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This paper gives abriefhistoryon the use of functional iteration in music composition and then describes how it is implemented in statics.
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The book starts out with three theme-setting prologues and abriefhistoryof the field of neurolinguistics.
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Both topics move from abriefhistoryof ideas into technicalities backed by modern empirical studies.
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Abriefhistoryof the speech community represented in these texts is necessary.
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