noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
centenary celebrations (= celebrating 100 years after a special event )
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A special committee was formed to organize the centenary celebrations.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
celebrate
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Lord's celebrated its centenary of Test cricket and produced a match worthy of the occasion.
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Eros, by Sir Alfred Gilbert, was erected in 1893 and celebrates its centenary on June 29.
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From Ottawa we spent a memorable day in Prescott where the club was celebrating its centenary .
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It's not the way to celebrate your centenary , as manager Ally Robertson knows only too well.
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Modern aversion is encapsulated by a notice about Heartlanders, a 1989 community play celebrating Birmingham's centenary as a city.
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Please help us raise funds now so our four-legged inmates can celebrate our centenary in 1992.
mark
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A competition was also held and souvenirs were distributed to mark the centenary .
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Orwell's year 1984 also marked the quarter-centenary of the association.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An event such as a school centenary can often produce a wealth of material from the local community.
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By extreme good fortune, Blackpool can celebrate its tramway centenary with one of its original ten cars of 1885.
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I wish to produce the brochure in time for its issue to have maximum circulation and impact to ensure a successful centenary .
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In a society that values freedom above all, the obvious way to celebrate a centenary is just to keep driving.
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Part of the programme included talks prepared by the cadets on the subject of the centenary .
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Please help us raise funds now so our four-legged inmates can celebrate our centenary in 1992.
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The centenary of Ivon Hitchens' birth is commemorated by several exhibitions of his work.
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When Einstein's centenary came along in 1979 there was a flurry of publishing activity.