whole generation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwholeandgeneration
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whole
adjective
uk/həʊl/us/hoʊl/
complete or ...
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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 ofwholeandgenerationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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While the debates were important, he believes that their price was a ' lost opportunity to produce historical knowledge for awholegeneration' (p. 15).
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I wonder whether there will be awholegenerationthat miss out?
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Awholegenerationwould subsequently embrace aspects of this dogmatic position.
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A recurrent theme in the early writings of thiswholegenerationwas an identification of matter and spirit as two versions of the same reality.
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Awholegenerationof books and dissertations can be launched around the neat distinction.
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The average duration of the development for thewholegenerationwas 46-9 days, also distinctly longer than in summer.
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The average duration of development for thewholegenerationwas 47 days, as in the preceding generation.
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This was a time of unprecedented political mass mobilization, of unbound promise as well as great uncertainty, when awholegenerationof new political leaders was made.
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No doubt the cost will be great, but how can the cost of supporting awholegenerationof unemployable men and women be measured?
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At the moment, awholegenerationare losing an opportunity of being able to acquire a home of their own.
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That is damage which will take awholegenerationto repair.
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As a result, we lost awholegenerationof ambassadors who would have been in post now.
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It is true to say that awholegenerationhas grown up in a more peaceful environment.
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It is indeed a feature shared by awholegenerationof historians.
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There has therefore been a system failure in implementation, creating awholegenerationof new problems as a consequence.
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In that to years you deprive awholegenerationof children of the use of the open spaces that we take.
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It can happen that society does not want the efforts of awholegenerationof people to serve humanity.
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We have to realise that we are breeding awholegenerationof children that are growing up with no values.
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