How to Use "contingent" with Example Sentences

1. Britain , which maintained the second-largest contingent of soldiers in the country , lost 179 troops during the conflict .
2. What is more , hong kong has a contingent of high-quality civil servants , large numbers of successful entrepreneurs and an array of professional talents .
3. In the latest print edition , the economist reports on his latest ploy to render irrelevant the newly elected legislature with its large opposition contingent .
4. The european union 's police training mission , always inadequate , is struggling to find staff to increase its contingent from about 200 to 400 .
5. History is contingent , the authors apologise , but history is what they hope to explain .