generation

• next generation

  Crystal Palace: The next generation

• first generation

  We were the ‘first generation’.

• second generation

  Now they are on their third generation of RIP and second generation of PostScript imagesetters with the Linotronic 200P.

• each generation

  But as each generation passes, the contribution of your genes is halved.

• younger generation

  So much for the younger generation and their attitude to the new technology.

• third generation

  ‘But I'm third generation,’ she said.

• older generation

  The er the older generation.

• gas generation

  We must not sanction the contracts lying on my right hon. Friend's desk — and by that I mean that there should be no more contracts for gas generation.

• power generation

  Photovoltaics is still five times as expensive as conventional power generation.

• whole generation

  Obviously, when parents are killed a whole generation is wiped out at a stroke.

• fourth generation

  The advent of fourth generation languages (4GLs) has made system development much easier.

• generation were

  Fred's generation were going down like flies.

• later generation

  The bomber — like the ICBM which haunts a later generation — would always get through.

• present generation

  The present generation — or ‘cohort’— of elderly persons includes disproportionately large numbers of women.

• electricity generation

  By the year 2000 nuclear should be contributing one-fifth of Japanese energy needs — some 45% of electricity generation.

• previous generation

  Material prosperity increases; we enjoy now what the previous generation enjoyed in its forties.

• spontaneous generation

  Well, there is the theory of spontaneous generation — like worms in Lucretius.