old-established
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Every day an average of 2,000 people are crossing into Uganda from the old-established states of Western, Central and Eastern Equatoria in the south of the country.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2017
Being unaffiliated is not the same as being atheist or agnostic, but it does suggest a waning of evangelical institutional authority, just as traditional authority in the old-established churches began crumbling several decades ago.
From Economist • May 3, 2012
After the family had moved west across London to settle in Putney, Judt was educated at Emanuel school, an old-established independent school in Battersea.
From The Guardian • Aug. 8, 2010
Britain is like an old-established firm of high repute which finds itself, for one reason or another in straits.
From Time Magazine Archive
To-day, though that old-established custom is observed, the method of allotting the vein and granting title has been changed.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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