wave of migration
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwaveandmigration
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wave
noun[C]
uk/weɪv/us/weɪv/
a raised line of water that moves across the surface of an area of water, especially ...
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migration
noun[C or U]
uk/maɪˈɡreɪ.ʃən/us/maɪˈɡreɪ.ʃən/
the process of animals travelling to a different place, usually when the ...
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(Definition ofwaveandmigrationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Alternatively, as the histological appearances suggest, some may arrive in a newwaveofmigrationfrom the ventral thalamus or ganglionic eminence.
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Thewaveofmigrationis growing.
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This newwaveofmigration, which is growing every year, has led some countries to tighten their immigration laws.
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Thewaveofmigrationcontinued substantially into the 18th century.
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Anotherwaveofmigrationcame in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Infrastructure and economic measures were adopted which induced massivewaveofmigrationto the island.
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However, the concept of patriality was only a temporary solution to halt a suddenwaveofmigration.
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The 1980s was a period of tremendous growth, with large land areas being subdivided into housing tracts and a greatwaveofmigrationof people into the city.
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A series of floods and avalanches in the 1990s-2000s induced anotherwaveofmigrationfrom the mountainous villages of the rayon.
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Early migrants came in the 19th century; there was anotherwaveofmigrationin the 1980s and 1990s.
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With further waves of migration to the west and south, the region, with few natural resources and diminished military and commercial importance, fell into a relative economic decline.
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Genius appears in one group only to disappear beneath waves of migration.
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As a nation, we are indistinguishable from those waves of migration.
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It is on these successive waves of migration that much of our society has been built.
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This country is a great melting pot of waves of migration.
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As a result of that, as a people, we have also been formed by successive waves of migration over many hundreds of years.
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Later waves of migration came in 1963 and again in 1974.
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This theory holds that there weren't clear discrete waves of migration.
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