generation
Example Sentences
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"This case is probably going to be the most important constitutional case in a generation," said Christine Van Geyn, executive director at the Canadian Constitution Foundation.
From BBC
As the last of the baby boomer generation edge into retirement there are not enough young Germans to replace them, due to a low birth rate.
From BBC
"Maybe we should just leave people to carry on living the way they have for generations."
From BBC
He pledged the programme would deliver the "next generation of new towns", in an echo of those developed by the Labour government after World War Two, which included Stevenage, Hemel Hempstead and Harlow.
From BBC
In an August 1978 essay for Ebony, he observed that if the rising generation of black youth hoped to “close the gap and catch up” in income and education, their priority should be discipline:
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
