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- adjective Across a whole continent.
- adverb Across a whole continent.
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Examples
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But unlike America, Europe doesn't have the kind of continentwide institutions needed to deal with a continentwide crisis.
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But unlike America, Europe doesn't have the kind of continentwide institutions needed to deal with a continentwide crisis.
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But unlike America, Europe doesn’t have the kind of continentwide institutions needed to deal with a continentwide crisis.
The mirror image across the Atlantic Stephen Retherford 2009
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But unlike America, Europe doesn’t have the kind of continentwide institutions needed to deal with a continentwide crisis.
Archive 2009-03-01 Stephen Retherford 2009
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JOHANNESBURG — The medical experts gathered from around Africa were here to talk about a continentwide epidemic, but it wasn't AIDS or malaria – it was diabetes, and the bad habits that often bring it on.
Global Obesity: Africa's Middle Class Hit With Diabetes, Weight Gain The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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JOHANNESBURG — The medical experts gathered from around Africa were here to talk about a continentwide epidemic, but it wasn't AIDS or malaria – it was diabetes, and the bad habits that often bring it on.
Global Obesity: Africa's Middle Class Hit With Diabetes, Weight Gain The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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To be in early twenty-first-century China was to witness the climax of two hundred years of industrialization and urbanization, in close-up, playing at fast-forward on a continentwide screen.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Spain and Greece have been hit particularly hard by government cutbacks and unemployment resulting from a continentwide debt crisis.
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Now many European countries have tabled important policy reforms such as the drafting of a continentwide asylum policy and the formulation of smarter immigration criteria based on education and skills.
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"Every one of our clients in Europe has positions they can't fill because of continentwide shortages," says Barbara Beck, European head of the employment service Manpower.
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