tiny island
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftinyandisland
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tiny
adjective
uk/ˈtaɪ.ni/us/ˈtaɪ.ni/
extremely ...
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island
noun[C]
uk/ˈaɪ.lənd/us/ˈaɪ.lənd/
a piece of land completely surrounded ...
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(Definition oftinyandislandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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After all, this is atinyisland.
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We are talking about atinyisland.
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After all, ours is only atinyisland.
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It is atinyisland: 47 square miles, mostly of volcanic rock.
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We have one outstanding disadvantage in modern war—compression—squashed into onetinyisland.
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These people live in a small enclosure and it is like being on atinyisland.
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It is going to be no use whatever to leave anyone in thistinyisland.
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They seek a refuge on ourtinyisland, which is already overcrowded.
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In atinyislandlike ours no place is safer than any other.
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Constant lake storms bombarded thetinyisland.
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The club had the option of going elsewhere; it refused it, and insisted upon going to thattinyisland.
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This is only atinyisland, but its soil, climate and other conditions vary considerably from county to county.
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They are the two pluses which go to make up our standard of living in thistinyisland.
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That level of production must impose problems on atinyislandwith a population of over 50 million.
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All those things need to be done, but we must bear in mind that we are on atinyisland.
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Without the helicopter service to ferry visitors to and from the mainland, the economy of thistinyislandwill be devastated.
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In thistinyislandof ours, whatever we do and wherever we go in search of land we are faced with this problem.
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We are atinyislandand if we cannot live together as brothers and sisters, there is little hope for us.
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It was he who had the villa built on thistinyisland.
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Historically, thetinyislandhas supported a high-density population of a thousand or so.
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Malapascua is atinyisland, only about long and wide, and has eight hamlets.
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Shaped roughly like a long, thin triangle, thetinyislandis approximately two miles long.
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This conservation technique ensures thetinyislandis not overrun by the horses.
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This country, atinyislandwith a population of over 50 millions, must no longer regard itself as the centre about which revolve dominions and colonies.
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One was told frequently in the past that we were such atinyisland, so overcrowded, that we had to be most careful whom we took in.
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