agricultural revolution

collocation in English

meaningsofagriculturalandrevolution

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agricultural
adjective
uk
/ˌæɡ.rɪˈkʌl.tʃər.əl/us
/ˌæɡ.rəˈkʌl.tʃɚ.əl/
used for farming or relating ...
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revolution
noun
uk
/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/us
/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/
a change in the way a country is governed, usually to a different political system and often using violence ...
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(Definition ofagriculturalandrevolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The 10,000-year-oldagriculturalrevolutioncontinues.
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British agricultural history is often the history ofagriculturalrevolution.
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The first began with theagriculturalrevolution(and animal husbandry), some 10,000 years ago.
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Now we have a newagriculturalrevolution.
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After all, theagriculturalrevolutioncame before the industrial revolution.
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Indeed, it was the very cradle of theagriculturalrevolution.
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The other reason is because of theagriculturalrevolution.
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There has been anagriculturalrevolutionthroughout the world.
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In this country we had anagriculturalrevolutionbefore we had an industrial revolution, and in the newer countries they need a newagriculturalrevolution.
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For many years, the twentieth-century countryside attracted little interest from historians, perhaps partly because the sub-discipline remained fixated on theagriculturalrevolutionand its consequences.
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Anagriculturalrevolutionis going on in the developing parts of the world.
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He asked a farmer whether there had been anagriculturalrevolution.
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This country still has to go through something of anagriculturalrevolution.
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Over the past 20 years, there has been a newagriculturalrevolution.
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We had theagriculturalrevolution, which was spread over two or three centuries.
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I believe that we are at the dawn of a new era—a newagriculturalrevolution.
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The concentration of granulated fertilisers has played a very conspicuous part in theagriculturalrevolution.
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There was anagriculturalrevolutionfor 500 years because it was discovered how to provide winter feed.
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Rural decline is nothing new: it has been with us virtually for ever, dating back to theagriculturalrevolution.
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He chose a method that would aid, abet and help on theagriculturalrevolutionalready taking place in the country.
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One could say that the use of pesticides after the second world war constituted a secondagriculturalrevolution.
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He was right to state that, if developing countries want an industrial revolution, they should first have anagriculturalrevolution.
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It could be argued that the continuingagriculturalrevolutionmeans that the hedgerow is no longer either necessary or desirable.
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It is only too true that the farming community has been participating gladly in a very realagriculturalrevolution.
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We are seeing the dawn of a thirdagriculturalrevolution, which is on a completely different scale.
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