previous century
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpreviousandcentury
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previous
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈpriː.vi.əs/us/ˈpriː.vi.əs/
happening or existing before something or ...
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century
noun[C]
uk/ˈsen.tʃər.i/us/ˈsen.tʃər.i/
a period of ...
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(Definition ofpreviousandcenturyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is no wonder that codeswitching has been studied extensively since the middle of thepreviouscentury.
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Students also wrote interesting comparisons between their lives and those of their counterparts in apreviouscentury.
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They did so because these beliefs had been discredited by the tumultuous events of thepreviouscentury.
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However, the figurative, or programmatic, music of thepreviouscenturytried to bring into the concert all stylised birds, storms and galloping horses.
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My forthcoming study of musical transmission between the two cities, including a new source, will extend the link back into thepreviouscentury.
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This partnership no longer rested upon the ideology of thepreviouscentury, according to which philanthropic organisations should pay special attention to the deserving poor.
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Its equipment was that of thepreviouscentury.
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I am thinking back to thepreviouscentury.
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Our present situation will soon be "in thepreviouscentury".
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Things were done rather better during thepreviouscentury.
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Thepreviouscenturywitnessed a dramatic improvement in longevity.
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By the mid-nineteenth century the images of provincial urban manufacture in circulation owed less and less to the modest vignette model inherited from thepreviouscentury.
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Considerable movements of population have been caused by wars between nations, inter-ethnic conflict and other kinds of violence, on a scale unimaginable in anypreviouscentury.
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More was passed in thepreviouscenturythan in this century.
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We may have done so in thepreviouscentury, but we are not doing so now.
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It was felt that we were living in thepreviouscentury.
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In thepreviouscentury—in 1700—an inquiry was undertaken, but no action has been taken.
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This was mainly because of the great success it had had in thepreviouscentury.
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I should like to compare the present situation with that which pertained in thepreviouscentury.
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During thepreviouscenturythere was an institution of government funding for institutions of higher education.
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Precedents on reforming adoption legislation were set at the end of thepreviouscentury.
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We have understood that since the great public health reforms of thepreviouscentury.
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Like another great man in apreviouscenturyhe cried "peace" when nobody wanted peace.
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It mirrors and parallels the rise and fall in thepreviouscenturyof socialism itself.
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