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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Britain became a world power because it handled four institutions supremely well.
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In literature, if in little else, Britain was again a world power .
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Nor was the United States the dominant world power it had been in 1945.
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The first stemmed from Britain's own decline as a world power .
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The United States had replaced Great Britain as the dominant world power .