stretch of land

collocation in English

meaningsofstretchandland

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stretch
noun
uk
/stretʃ/us
/stretʃ/
a continuous area of land ...
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land
noun
uk
/lænd/us
/lænd/
the surface of the earth that is not covered ...
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(Definition ofstretchandlandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstretch of land

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It was a well-wateredstretchoflandwith fertile plains and imposing mountains.
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He will know that it is astretchoflandwhich may be up to 30 or 40 yards wide.
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The damage which will be caused to anystretchoflandmust be weighed against the consequences of developing thatstretchofland.
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There is a difference between what onestretchoflandand another will produce.
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That is to set the problem in a context much wider than the particularstretchoflandover which the road will go.
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So there is not the slightest chance that he could afforest astretchoflandwithout knowing what he was doing.
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It is an interesting thought that thisstretchoflandwas an industrial belt in the early nineteenth century, with mines and mills and works.
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Others own nothing except a shortstretchofland.
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These pipelines go along a relatively narrowstretchoflandand can affect neighbouring property, particularly if they are carrying obnoxious substances of one sort or another—poisonous, explosive or inflammable.
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Then, equipment had to be diverted a considerable distance to gain access to a watercourse in flood because a private landowner would not allow access over hisstretchofland.
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Thestretchoflandhas since been a considerable source of regional strife.
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Thestretchoflandmakes for a very narrow but long city outline.
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Nostretchoflandalong the river is left open to the floods.
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In the 1880s, due to the presence of the railway thestretchoflandattracted some professionals who established substantial homes on large estates.
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A small rivulet (called the nullah) ran right through thisstretchofland.
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They will stand along thestretchoflandabove the edge of the riverbank and arranged in individual blocks.
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In very low tides, the island is actually a peninsula, accessible across a sandystretchoflandconnecting it to a nearby beach.
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The main building, originally a 19th-century farm, occupies a 5acre m2stretchofland.
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She remained on a smallstretchoflandwith a community so close, they were more like family.
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Even though many spruces currently grow in that vicinity, recent pollen studies show that spruce forests came surprisingly late to thatstretchofland.
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