large settlement

collocation in English

meaningsoflargeandsettlement

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large
adjective
uk
/lɑːdʒ/us
/lɑːrdʒ/
big in size ...
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settlement
noun
uk
/ˈset.əl.mənt/us
/ˈset̬.əl.mənt/
an official agreement that finishes ...
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(Definition oflargeandsettlementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They do not have to be elected and can act as they will until discharged, when they receive alargesettlement.
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If people would really meet us on alargesettlementof this question, this system works admirably where it has been tried.
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One cannot say that that is a verylargesettlementon the land, but it does show that we are moving in the right direction.
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The first essential is to get these grazings for existing townships rather thanlargesettlementschemes.
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There is no denying that this is alargesettlement, however much it may have been deserved.
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We have only to visit any small orlargesettlementto see the depredations wrought by architects and town planners since 1950 or thereabouts.
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It is important in this context to accept that as small farmers move out of thelargesettlement, we are denuding that settlement of work hands.
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This is alargesettlement.
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It was quite alargesettlementby the standards of the time.
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It was already at this time a fairlylargesettlement, with 73 households.
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During the same period a newlargesettlementemerged in the no-mans-land.
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For the last four thousand years the economy of thislargesettlementhas always been connected, in one way or another, with the neighboring mountain.
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This early transit, though, resulted in alargesettlement, resulting in the elevation of the district to the status of "vila" ("town") in 1542.
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Because of this circumstance, particular areas of the 4-halargesettlementcould be excavated extensively, allowing specific lines of inquiries to be followed.
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It consists of onelargesettlementwith around ten satellite villages.
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It developed into alargesettlementafter its brown coal mine began to operate in 1839, but especially in the early 20th century.
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Medina, several miles to the northwest, is the nearestlargesettlement.
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Alargesettlementwas envisaged and 800 town sections were surveyed.
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This is considered alargesettlementfor the time period.
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Alargesettlementwas recorded in the 19th century, and destroyed in the 1870s by agricultural improvement.
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