surrounding countryside

collocation in English

meaningsofsurroundingandcountryside

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surrounding
adjective[before noun]
uk
/səˈraʊn.dɪŋ/us
/səˈraʊn.dɪŋ/
that is everywhere ...
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countryside
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈkʌn.tri.saɪd/us
/ˈkʌn.tri.saɪd/
land not in towns, cities, or industrial areas, that is either used for farming or left in its ...
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(Definition ofsurroundingandcountrysidefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But this happened in thesurroundingcountrysideat the same time.
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In pre-industrial societies urban waste had largely been recycled, with animal and human excrement employed as fertilizer in thesurroundingcountryside.
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Outside this road, a green belt (100 metres wide) separated the city andsurroundingcountryside.
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Instead, the smallest boroughs were to be padded out from thesurroundingcountryside, a change that might actually strengthen the influence of landed proprietors.
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Moreover, he had lived in the town earlier in his life and knew its pubs andsurroundingcountrysideintimately.
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The extensive hinterlands and links with thesurroundingcountrysidewhich these places enjoyed - precisely the qualities which made them attractive as leisure towns - served to bolster their service sectors.
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Morelia and itssurroundingcountrysideexperienced many of these processes as well.
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They are not the counties or the artificial districts but the burghs and theirsurroundingcountryside.
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I appreciate his point that there is a greater affinity between a big city and itssurroundingcountrysidethan there is in other cases.
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The national forest is already adding a range of new activities in thesurroundingcountryside.
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There were few movements on local roads and the site had little impact onsurroundingcountryside.
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People were coming on their bicycles into my constituency as late as 1979; whole villages from thesurroundingcountrysidewere coming into my constituency.
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In thesurroundingcountryside, we have the lowest rural wages.
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Expansion of a town into thesurroundingcountrysideis objectionable or planning grounds.
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However, there had to be 45,000 sheep in thesurroundingcountrysideto make sure that a three-day supply of sheep was available.
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Again, the authorities got the balance right between the city and thesurroundingcountryside.
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Certainly, men cannot be drawn from thesurroundingcountryside.
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They are immediately able to cope, to live and to thrive in thesurroundingcountrysidewithout any trouble.
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She puts forward impressive claims upon thesurroundingcountrysidewhich she is determined to implement.
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