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01. Outside workers at the university are holding a [series] of meetings to discuss the possibility of joining a union.
02. The government is holding a [series] of public meetings to discuss the state of the medical system.
03. All the children in the class had read the entire Harry Potter [series], and were anxious to read the newest book that was about to be released.
04. We listened to the first episode in the "Judy's World" soap opera [series] in our language lab today.
05. "Friends" was perhaps the most popular comedy [series] on television in the 1990s.
06. We heard a [series] of shots coming from the house, and then a man ran out covered in blood.
07. Sigmund Freud believed that every child goes through a [series] of personality development stages.
08. Children have to have a [series] of vaccinations while they are in elementary school.
09. Charles Feidelson once said that life is a [series] of little deaths, out of which life always returns.
10. Lisa Moriyama once suggested that if a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a [series] of endings.
11. Vincent van Gogh once said that great things are done by a [series] of small things brought together.
12. Louis Pasteur once observed that science advances through tentative answers to a [series] of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.
13. Hydro-Quebec sells electricity generated by a [series] of hydroelectric dams that harness the power of the La Grande River in northern Quebec and Ontario.
14. A tsunami is a great wave or [series] of waves which extends from the surface water to the sea floor.
15. If you read a [series] of texts on a related topic, you will be exposed to vocabulary which is repeated frequently.
16. Muslims gained control over what is now Pakistan through a [series] of military and cultural conquests over five centuries.
17. Seen from an airplane, the Philippines is a [series] of beautiful green islands.
18. In 1992, [serial] killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleaded guilty but insane to the murders of 15 young men and boys.
19. In 1993, a [series] of strong earthquakes devastated 36 villages in southwestern India.
20. The songs of the humpback whales are composed of a [series] of sounds.
21. A landscape which is eroded by natural water systems will evolve through a [series] of predictable stages.

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