inland town
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinlandandtown
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inland
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈɪn.lənd/us/ˈɪn.lənd/
in the middle of a country, away from ...
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town
noun
uk/taʊn/us/taʊn/
a place where people live and work, containing many houses, shops, places of work, places of entertainment, etc., and usually larger than a village but smaller than ...
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(Definition ofinlandandtownfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The needs of a resort are totally different in these respects from those of aninlandtownof similar size.
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The difficulty is that whereas aninlandtowncan put a sewage treatment works anywhere around its perimeter, a coastal town can only put its sewage treatment works inland.
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There is no evidence of any employment in the tourist or holiday industry any greater than would be found in any otherinlandtownof similar size in the country.
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The city started from aninlandtownthat extended to the coast.
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There is an enormous market in our inland towns for fish but it requires organising in some form or another.
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But you also have these substantial inland towns to which large numbers of evacuee children have been sent.
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The trouble is to get this valuable and desirable food into the shops in the inland towns.
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There is more fish caught and eaten in our coast towns, where it is easily obtained, than in the inland towns.
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People like them, but they cannot get them in the smaller inland towns.
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References have been made to inland towns and seaside districts by way of comparison.
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This is really a very serious matter for the traders of inland towns.
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Some inland towns have the problem of finding enough suitable labour while there is this pocket of unemployment on the coast.
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But in the case of inland towns it may well be that the problem will become more acute.
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They could not carry on in the inland towns, and they had to remove, and they are now flourishing at the port.
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There are great electrical machines which are manufactured in inland towns and have to be transported to the coast.
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It is astonishing how little fish is eaten in the inland towns.
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The railways have not the refrigerating vans, they never prepare for a glut, and have no method of getting these fish quickly into the small inland towns.
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Is it not possible to transfer this fish, even if it is only a short distance, to the inland towns in the neighbourhood of the coastal towns?
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Lumber was hauled in all directions to build up inland towns, and to improve the nearby homesteads.
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