temperate zone

collocation in English

meaningsoftemperateandzone

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temperate
adjective
uk
/ˈtem.pər.ət/us
/ˈtem.pɚ.ət/
environment
(of weather conditions) neither very hot nor ...
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zone
noun[C]
uk
/zəʊn/us
/zoʊn/
an area, especially one that is different from the areas around it because it has different characteristics or is used for ...
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(Definition oftemperateandzonefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftemperate zone

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Fruit-eating birds and bird-dispersed plants in the tropics andtemperatezone.
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The range of diagnoses would have been in no way remarkable in a group of children from atemperatezone.
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Habitats considered range from mountain and arid deserts in thetemperatezone, to savanna and lowland rainforests in tropical regions of the world.
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This is unlikely to be true, as infectious disease in the tropics is not the same as infectious disease in thetemperatezone.
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It would* therefore, appear justified to ask whether changes in disease organisms occur more easily in this region than in areas within the cooltemperatezone.
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There is time now to deal only withtemperatezonefoodstuffs.
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Secondly, there is the major problem of the products oftemperatezonecountries.
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The climate is in thetemperatezone.
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Populations breeding in thetemperatezonemigrate south during winter.
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Thetemperatezonecovers about 8% of the country.
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They are found only in the northtemperatezone.
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In the north, there is support for farmers producing milk, cereals and products of atemperatezone.
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Whether young or old, whether situated in the tropics or thetemperatezone, they all have a close family resemblance.
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We should be much more ambitious and seek over a period to become largely self-sufficient intemperatezonefoodstuffs.
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All the industrialised nations, mainly in the northern,temperatezonehave despoiled the planet and caused havoc.
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I am talking in the main abouttemperatezoneproducts such as cereals, dairy products and meat.
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Indeed, whenever there was a tendency fortemperatezonefoodstuffs to fall in price there was lobbying for higher tariffs.
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Will he give one example of a tropical food producing country which has produced a major increase in demand fortemperatezonefoodstuffs?
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It is doubtful whether we shall see them on the moretemperatezoneproducts, such as cereals, which are still in great surplus.
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Are they to be dealt with in the same way as thetemperatezonefoodstuffs are dealt with at the moment?
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Nobody can possibly say what the exact position will be in 1970 as regards the whole world production and distribution oftemperatezonefoodstuffs.
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The countries in thetemperatezonecannot produce all their foodstuffs and raw materials and there are certain manufactures which they cannot produce.
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Frugivores are common in thetemperatezonebut mostly found in the tropics.
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Intemperatezonelocalities, tilapiine farming operations require energy to warm the water to tropical temperatures.
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