peculiar situation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpeculiarandsituation
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peculiar
adjective
uk/pɪˈkjuː.li.ər/us/pɪˈkjuːl.jɚ/
unusual and strange, sometimes in an ...
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situation
noun[C]
uk/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/
the set of things that are happening and the conditions that exist at a particular time ...
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It seems to have led us into apeculiarsituationat the moment.
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That, in my view, is a verypeculiarsituation.
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There is apeculiarsituationin my constituency.
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It would be a verypeculiarsituationif it did not.
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Thatpeculiarsituation, created in 1929, remains today.
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To that extent, it is for him a ratherpeculiarsituation.
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That seems to me to be apeculiarsituation.
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Let me, in conclusion, turn to the administrative costs, where the appropriations come up against something of apeculiarsituation.
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Here we are in thepeculiarsituationof having even less room for manoeuvre because of the change in exchange rates.
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But this is apeculiarsituationwhere we do not have general symptoms of inflation.
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Now we are left with this mostpeculiarsituation.
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But this is apeculiarsituation, because there is no local authority there at all.
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In making such a proposition he has to have regard to thepeculiarsituationin which this country finds itself.
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It is generally known that this is apeculiarsituation.
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But that is thepeculiarsituationin which the mining industry is at the present time.
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Thatpeculiarsituationshould give rise to deep unease about the state of the business.
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If the credit cannot be secured on those products, it is a verypeculiarsituation.
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It is apeculiarsituationin any flood that the water should completely ruin the grassland for one whole year.
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Also, in this very large territory we have thepeculiarsituationthat overpopulation is already a difficult problem.
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We are now facing apeculiarsituation, really.
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