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  • L'extraction de minerai, en particulier diamantifère, domine l'activité économique, mais le tourisme progresse, grâce aux activités de préservation de la nature et à d'importantes réserves naturelles.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Rene Meertens 2010

  • Avec moi, ça marche, grâce à vous mon anglais progresse, alors pourquoi pas ajouter du fond à la forme, quelques idées un peu plus incorrectes subversives?

    growing pains 2006

  • Then I traueiled on further vnto a city called Soldania, [Or, Sultania.] wherein the Persian Emperour lieth all Sommer time: but in winter hee takes his progresse vnto another city standing upon the sea called Baku.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Whereupon his empire is of that length and breadth, that vnto whatsoeuer part thereof he intendeth his iourny, he hath space enough for six moneths continual progresse, except his Islands which are at the least 5000.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Sunday betooke themselues to a progresse in order of procession, to

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • All this progresse ended, both the Emperor and Empresse returned to Mosco: shortly after the Emperor by the direction of the prince Boris

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Sunn made a notable progresse, by an early eminence in practice and learninge, insomuch as he was Recorder of London, Sollicitor generall, and Kings Atturny before he was forty yeeres of age, a rare ascent, all which offices he discharged, with greate abilityes, and singular reputation of integrity: In the first yeere after the death of Kinge

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • He was very deere to the L'd Falkelande, with whome he spent as much tyme as he could make his owne, and as that Lord would impute the speedy progresse he made in the Greeke tounge, to the information and assistance he had from M'r Earles, so M'r Earles would frequently professe that he had gott more usefull learninge by his conversation at Tew (the L'd Falkelands house) then he had at Oxforde.

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • For, as befoir we have said, we mynd only to follow the progresse of the

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • To the same Artaxerxes, riding in progresse through

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

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