surrounding farmland

collocation in English

meaningsofsurroundingandfarmland

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surrounding
adjective[before noun]
uk
/səˈraʊn.dɪŋ/us
/səˈraʊn.dɪŋ/
that is everywhere ...
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farmland
noun[U]
uk
/ˈfɑːm.lænd/us
/ˈfɑːrm.lænd/
land that is used for or is suitable ...
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(Definition ofsurroundingandfarmlandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The remaining eighty or ninety miles of road has no other purpose but to provide access to thesurroundingfarmland.
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There is anxiety about the decline in the diversity and abundance of wildlife within andsurroundingfarmlandas farmers have adapted techniques to drive down the unit cost of production.
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Certain rivers exceeded their banks, submergingsurroundingfarmland.
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These nutrients come fromsurroundingfarmland, residential septic tanks and from the release of existing and accumulated nutrients from sediments on the lake bed.
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After the fire, thesurroundingfarmlandwas abandoned and left to revert to forest, and it is now used for hunting and harvesting timber.
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A housing boom which began in the 1920s eventually consumed thesurroundingfarmlandand became continuous with neighboring towns and neighborhoods.
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It is a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain, often the site of villages, wells and theirsurroundingfarmland.
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The park is home to many species of plants and animals that can not live on thesurroundingfarmland.
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Surroundingfarmlandalso engaged in flood control projects.
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Thesurroundingfarmlandhas donkeys, horses, chickens, and a garden with flowers and other plants.
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Thesurroundingfarmlandends temporarily just south of a culvert over a creek, replaced by forestland.
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He used thesurroundingfarmlandto conduct experiments on soybeans.
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Much of thesurroundingfarmlandhas been planted with plantation timber in recent years.
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It was then used as a workhouse for inmates with short sentences who worked thesurroundingfarmland.
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The station provides news and information for the city, and agricultural information forsurroundingfarmland.
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More than 100,000 litres of oil seeped intosurroundingfarmlandas a result of a broken pipe.
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The group planted over 30,000 trees then extended the reserve intosurroundingfarmlandand established over 14kmmi 0 of walking trails.
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Canopy cover varies throughout the reserve, and is at its most dense to the centre of the wood, away from thesurroundingfarmland.
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Black sand-like ash fell onsurroundingfarmlandand stock had to be moved.
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The peak of this relatively low mountain is approximately 800 feet (244 m) higher than thesurroundingfarmland.
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