lost territory

collocation in English

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lost
adjective
uk
/lɒst/us
/lɑːst/
not knowing where you are and how to get to ...
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territory
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈter.ɪ.tər.i/us
/ˈter.ə.tɔːr.i/
(an area of) land, or sometimes sea, that is considered as belonging to or connected with a particular country ...
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(Definition oflostandterritoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The diagram of the form represents the expansion and recovery oflostterritory.
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He spent much of his reign trying to regain hislostterritory.
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His first priority was to strengthen the country and to retrieve itslostterritory.
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The defenders would thus be able to counter-attack and regain anylostterritory.
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Itlostterritorytwice with the establishment of two other dioceses.
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At this time, the indigenous population of the area recovered enough that there were efforts to reclaimlostterritoryand government.
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In 1465, the hundredlostterritoryin the east and the meeting place became located on its fringe.
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Over its existence, the rural districtlostterritoryto new urban districts.
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At its biggest extent in the 13th century, it laterlostterritoryuntil it came finally to be around the size of today's district.
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One hears their claims and clamour for the lost territories.
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She is rearming for no other purpose than to win back her lost territories.
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I feel that there will always be some danger of aggression on their part to recover their lost territories.
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It also wants to regain its lost territories and go back to the 1937 frontiers and all the rest of it.
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Bulgarian casualties amounted to 412,000, along 253,000 refugees from the lost territories.
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Wenceslaus would then recover the lost territories of his father.
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The pact's basic goals were recovery of the lost territories and common fight until the time of a commonly agreed peace.
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Neither side wanted to continue fighting since the main causes had disappeared and since there were no large lost territories for one side or the other to reclaim by force.
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Chlothar sent his eldest sons to reclaim lost territories.
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By the beginning of the 1950s, owing to the huge numbers of displaced people from lost territories and refugees flooding into the town, the population had doubled to 30,000.
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