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African nations were anxious to hush up accounts of their own present-day slave trading.Times, Sunday Times (2002)
And for acres around, underlying the present-day farms and vineyards, must still lie the rest of the city of Knossos.Curzon, Clare The Quest for K
He soon owned one of the largest haciendas in California, the Rancho Santa Anita, which covered most of present-day Pasadena.Arthur Herman THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World (2002)
I'm interested only in tracking down my half-million referred to in that receipt, not in present-day rackets.Jenkins, Geoffrey A Daystar of Fear
Instead of learning about human'diversity ', then, we end up stuck in our present-day lives.Spiked (2004)
It rings horribly false, however, if historical evidence is pummelled to fit a present-day political purpose.Globe and Mail (2003)
Seats are roomy, with a more generous pitch than in present-day economy class.Courier, Sunday Mail (2004)
The KGB used to be called the Cheka, and the half-million present-day members still used this term for one another.Shah, Idries Kara Kush
The present-day Ralph would have wallowed in their discomfort.Belfast Telegraph (2004)
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