sheep farmer

collocation in English

meaningsofsheepandfarmer

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sheep
noun[C]
uk
/ʃiːp/us
/ʃiːp/
a farm animal with thick wool that eats grass and is kept for its wool, skin, ...
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farmer
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfɑː.mər/us
/ˈfɑːr.mɚ/
someone who owns or takes care of ...
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(Definition ofsheepandfarmerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thesheepfarmeris keeping up his stock because of the price of wool and mutton, and the finished sheep in the market.
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Asheepfarmerwith only a couple of shepherds has usually not got the labour to control the fire.
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That also will help the hillsheepfarmerconsiderably.
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It is universally recognised, nevertheless, that, however many worries the hillsheepfarmerhas, enterprise in selection is not one of them.
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To the average dairy farmer it is worth £2,300 and to the averagesheepfarmerit is worth £650.
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Thesheepfarmerincreased his production very considerably last year.
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The present matter is a bit difficult even for a highly paid deficiency supportersheepfarmerto understand, and there are few of them.
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As we know, he is himself a landowner and a notorioussheepfarmer.
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By what authority and by whose authority is the hillsheepfarmercompelled to work at a loss?
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The higher prices do not indicate that the situation is better for the hillsheepfarmer.
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Let me take first the situation of thesheepfarmer.
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So, the good economic health of the uplandsheepfarmeris of the utmost importance to the trust.
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I want to turn in particular to the problems of thesheepfarmer.
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That man was not technically asheepfarmeror a shepherd, but he was closely involved in the sheep industry.
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I realise that these are special cases, but they are not too far away from a parallel with the hillsheepfarmeron waygoing.
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It would meet the real difficulties which thesheepfarmerwould otherwise feel.
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The former five-feet wall had turned the sheep belonging to thesheepfarmerbut the two strands of barbed wire did not.
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Recently a farmer – who is a third-generationsheepfarmer– took me to see his last flock of sheep.
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I have been a hillsheepfarmersince 1949.
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