low-lying area

collocation in English

meaningsoflow-lyingandarea

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low-lying
adjective
uk
/ˌləʊˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/us
/ˌloʊˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/
Low-lying land is at or near ...
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area
noun
uk
/ˈeə.ri.ə/us
/ˈer.i.ə/
a particular part of a place, piece of land, ...
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(Definition oflow-lyingandareafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is alow-lyingareaand all the agriculture in this zone requires irrigation.
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This board came into existence because thislow-lyingarea, in which many of the main river channels are artificial and not natural, was specially liable to floods.
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It is a flat,low-lyingarea(approx. 5 metres above sea level) of fields and meadows separated by water-filled rhynes and ditches.
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Thelow-lyingareais prone to flooding during heavy rains.
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The resulting deaths of residents in alow-lyingareaare believed to have occurred between 03:00 and dawn.
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The city was built in alow-lyingareasubject to flooding.
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The trap is basically an embankment built along a waterway orlow-lyingareaon the site.
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Although situated in a desert, it is in alow-lyingareawithout drainage.
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The region receives an annual average of 2000 mm of precipitation, which often causes flooding in thelow-lyingarea.
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The new structure proposed to be constructed in thelow-lyingareaabutting the highway will have nearly 20 additional platforms.
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Thelow-lyingareahad never been developed because of drainage and sewerage problems.
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Salland is alow-lyingareadominated by a number of rivers and streams, which have deposited rich layers of river clay.
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The residents started adding fill along the neck in the late 18th century because thelow-lyingareawas prone to erosion.
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Most of its 720,000 cubic yards of fill material was excavated from the surroundinglow-lyingarea.
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It is alow-lyingarea, with a ground level that is 10 meters lower than the surrounding area.
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It is alow-lyingareaof chotts (salt pans), and occasional oases, where exists intensive cultivation of date palms in the tens of thousands.
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They were living in alow-lyingareaand suffered epidemic illness.
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That year thelow-lyingareasuffered extensively from floods.
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The other side of thislow-lyingarea, called the "backside", was once also used for fishing stages, called "fishing rooms", where boats were also moored away from the land.
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A scheme introduced in the 1940s to provide domestic water supplies diverted natural mountain streams and destroyed snail habitats in the low-lying areas.
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