ensuing centuries

collocation in English

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ensuing
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ɪnˈsjuː.ɪŋ/us
/ɪnˈsuː.ɪŋ/
happening after something and because ...
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century
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsen.tʃər.i/us
/ˈsen.tʃər.i/
a period of ...
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(Definition ofensuingandcenturyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Periods of repair, use and abandonment followed over theensuingcentury.
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In theensuingcenturythe unit was used for various tasks.
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The building changed hands several times over the ensuing centuries.
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The city was the location of several battles in the ensuing centuries.
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In the ensuing centuries, authority on the island was to become concentrated among a small number of local barons.
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Several other churches were also constructed in the ensuing centuries.
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Scientific opinion as to the origin of craters swung back and forth over the ensuing centuries.
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The monastery dominated local life, sharing the ups and downs of the ensuing centuries with the little town that surrounded it.
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The ensuing centuries therefore saw several attempts to preserve the caves and to repair sustained damage.
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Many other tuning systems, developed in the ensuing centuries, share a similar asymmetry.
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The use of traditional grammars has gone in and out of fashion in language teaching over the ensuing centuries.
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In the ensuing centuries a cathedral and a monastery were built.
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Recession followed in the ensuing centuries.
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Macnie also forecasts advances in communication, with a global telephone network, and recorded lectures by college professors, among other developments that have come to pass in the ensuing centuries.
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