stretch of coast

collocation in English

meaningsofstretchandcoast

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stretch
noun
uk
/stretʃ/us
/stretʃ/
a continuous area of land ...
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coast
noun[C]
uk
/kəʊst/us
/koʊst/
the land next to or close to ...
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(Definition ofstretchandcoastfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The conditions usually associated with successful oyster cultivation are not found along thestretchofcoastreferred to in the question.
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Although the inland area is not particularly attractive, many people enjoy walking along thatstretchofcoast.
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Nobody could name a singlestretchofcoast.
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What are the options for any givenstretchofcoast?
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It is on thisstretchofcoastthat industry has pounced.
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As there is an immense demand for houses on this sought-afterstretchofcoast, their investment of £21,000 could bring them immense profits if they were allowed to succeed.
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The timber, which has been washed up along astretchofcoaston which salvage is difficult, is not of a kind to suffer from exposure.
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An extensive search over all the land routes and out to sea, along thestretchofcoastover which the missing aircraft might have flown, has been unfruitful.
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As he knows, 39 lives have been lost in the last twelve years on this smallstretchofcoast, a great number, as he knows, in a recent wreck there.
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A cubic metre is quite a lot and all that sewage is legally licensed to go into the water along one relatively smallstretchofcoast.
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Brighton, as everyone knows, is a charming and successful seaside resort on astretchofcoastfrom east to west, with a beach which varies in steepness.
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The local fishing industry has nearly disappeared and has been replaced by intensive agriculture in greenhouses that can be found along thisstretchofcoast.
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The varied habitat found within the park includes a seven-kilometrestretchofcoast, coastal wetlands, forests, and dunes.
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Many sites along thisstretchofcoastutilized chutes and wire trapeze rigging to load the small coastal schooners with lumber.
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These springs are lifeline to the springbok and oryx roaming this desolatestretchofcoastand also attract a variety of birds.
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But since 1992, there have been 59 shark attacks along a 20km mistretchofcoast. 24 of them were fatal.
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Traditional fishing boats are usually characteristic of thestretchofcoastalong which they operate.
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Chakan was largely landlocked with a smallstretchofcoaston the north of the peninsula.
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An ancient fossilised den of this species was discovered here in the 1960s and thestretchofcoastwas named after this discovery.
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Along thisstretchofcoastthe cliff path winds through numerous valleys.
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