imported grain
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimportandgrain
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import
noun
uk/ˈɪm.pɔːt/us/ˈɪm.pɔːrt/
goods bought by one country ...
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grain
noun
uk/ɡreɪn/us/ɡreɪn/
a seed or seeds from a plant, especially a plant like a grass such as rice ...
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(Definition ofimportandgrainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It was believed that a socialist country should not consumeimportedgrainin general and grain from capitalist countries in particular.
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Noimportedgrainis allocated to brewers or malt distillers, who must use home-produced barley.
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How would they be supplied except through these ordinary commercial ports where theimportedgrainis habitually dealt with?
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Now the user ofimportedgrainis buying at a low price and the taxpayer is being asked to make up the difference.
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Could not money raised in this way be used to pay forimportedgrainand rice, to feed the starving population?
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I remember when in the railway service how very carefully we watched cargoes ofimportedgrainfor any indication of weevil.
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It would be interesting to know the proportion of home-grown grain toimportedgrainused by the food compounders.
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Approximately 190,000 tons ofimportedgrainare at present stored in the 54 aerodromes.
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Does he not further agree that if we reduce dependence onimportedgrainwe release food for people who are starving?
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This should be facilitated by devaluation which has madeimportedgrainrelatively more expensive than home-grown grain.
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In fact, they have been buyingimportedgrain.
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Samples of all shipments ofimportedgrainare drawn on arrival and examined by experts so as to ensure, among other things, that it is free from harmful matter.
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We need theimportedgrain.
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I cannot guarantee that there is no weevil active in thisimportedgrain, as complete elimination of insect life is rarely possible, even with the most efficient methods of control.
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The price at whichimportedgrainwill be sold to millers will be adjusted from time to time in parity with the current maximum prices for sound home-grown grain.
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There is very little evidence that there is a differential which cannot be justified between the price ofimportedgrainand the prices which our producers have been getting.
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The result has been that almost continuously the market for home grain tends to run at £1 or £2 a ton under the price level ofimportedgrainof similar qualities.
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We are in deficit in both bread-making and feed wheat, and the price forimportedgraintherefore tends to keep market prices well above intervention levels.
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He emerged as the only economist of note to support duties onimportedgrain.
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By that time its wood waterwheel and its millstones had been replaced by a metal turbine andimportedgrainbreakers.
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