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Example sentences for: antilles

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By 1674, when Louis XIV took formal control of the islands from the debt-ridden commercial administrators, Martinique had become France’s colonial capital in the Lesser Antilles.
The few dozen islands and rocks are widely scattered along the great curving chain of the Lesser Antilles.
A little pun in his Nobel lecture appears to gloss over, and even celebrate, the privations of underdevelopment: "In the Antilles poverty is poetry with a 'v,' une vie , a condition of life as well as of imagination."
Boom turned to bust, however, with cheaper sugar production from Brazil and the Antilles, and the industry died.
Guilder is used in Netherlands Antilles and Suriname.