patch of land

collocation in English

meaningsofpatchandland

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patch
noun[C]
uk
/pætʃ/us
/pætʃ/
a small area that is different in some way from the area that ...
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land
noun
uk
/lænd/us
/lænd/
the surface of the earth that is not covered ...
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(Definition ofpatchandlandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpatch of land

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Subsequent trials were planted on a differentpatchoflandfollowing a pre-set crop rotation plan for each location.
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It is useless merely giving a man apatchoflandunless you also give him the means to cultivate that land.
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A tinypatchoflandhas accepted a population of 5 million, mostly in the form of poverty-stricken refugees, over the past years.
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The people who were parked on mypatchoflandused my fields as their latrine and so on.
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There is a natural ecosystem of wildlife, plants and animals even in one smallpatchofland.
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But there used to be kept a donkey on thispatchofland.
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A large estate embraced under these schemes may on one side have an improvingpatchofland.
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We have two planning authorities for onepatchofland.
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I had assumed that the amendment would cover what are classed as "acknowledged" allotments rather than anypatchoflandwhich has been dug.
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Let us be clear, if we have people coming along to a particularpatchofland, the farmers want them removed.
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Secondly, there had been apatchofland, some 20 acres of moorland, which had been burnt off extremely heavily and the sheep had congregated on that spot.
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The building was constructed after the developers bought thepatchoflandoff another developing company whilst they were constructing a building there.
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They had to work for their landlords in return for thepatchoflandthey needed to grow enough food for their own families.
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The story goes that a farmer bought apatchoflandthat was inhabited by the boggart.
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The logs were harvested from apatchoflandthat had previously never been logged.
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This corresponds to apatchoflandwhere the trees have burnt and the vegetation has yet to regrow.
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Thispatchoflandis under the cultivation.
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Even the animals and insects that live on thatpatchoflandare inheritors too, he discovers.
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Collectors have long visited the smallpatchoflandwhere the cactus occurs.
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Settlers at about the turn of the century cultivated this smallpatchofland.
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