outlying village

collocation in English

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outlying
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈaʊtˌlaɪ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈaʊtˌlaɪ.ɪŋ/
far away from main towns and cities, or far from the centre of ...
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village
noun
uk
/ˈvɪl.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈvɪl.ɪdʒ/
a group of houses and other buildings that is smaller than a town, usually in ...
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(Definition ofoutlyingandvillagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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One can envisage three times a week shopping from anoutlyingvillageinto the city.
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They seem to be based on ancient parish boundaries where drove roads over the hills once connected a remote farm to someoutlyingvillage.
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Finding a community of forty houses, they thought it was the capital, but it was a smalloutlyingvillageof a much larger culture.
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Normally only the men present in the capital attend, the business discussed and decisions reached being communicated, if necessary, to the inhabitants of outlying villages through their headmen.
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In the meantime, some people living here have been going to more outlying villages to get their religious activities performed.
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How is it paid to those living in outlying villages?
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There are no longer regular bus services to all the outlying villages.
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There are huts in outlying villages used as platoon headquarters.
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My constituency contains urban and rural areas with outlying villages.
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As regards the general situation, there are still elements of disquiet owing to the difficulty of getting food to the more outlying villages.
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Any further traffic problems along that route could result in lives being put at risk, and many serious problems for outlying villages.
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No miners' institutes have been erected during the war, although they were very warmly welcomed, especially by miners in outlying villages.
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It is easier to get section leaders in some outlying villages than it is to get platoon leaders.
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A network of buses is required, radiating from some central county town or provincial city to the outlying villages.
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In developing countries the supply of running water to outlying villages and sometimes to large cities is a first and essential step on the road to development.
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Mobile clinics equipped with basic preventive and curative medicine were making regular rounds to outlying villages.
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Numerous former outlying villages and towns have been enveloped by the urban and suburbs.
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The original village has grown to include what were outlying villages.
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The majority of the students live in outlying villages.
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The system comprised purely urban lines and suburban lines, which stretched to outlying villages.
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