vast territory

collocation in English

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vast
adjective
uk
/vɑːst/us
/væst/
extremely ...
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territory
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈter.ɪ.tər.i/us
/ˈter.ə.tɔːr.i/
(an area of) land, or sometimes sea, that is considered as belonging to or connected with a particular country ...
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(Definition ofvastandterritoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In the end he has charted out avastterritorythat should inspire new research.
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It certainly is not trendy and in many countries it covers avastterritoryincluding the areas of creativity and technological development mentioned separately above.
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She felt that she needed to be aware of a complex andvastterritoryto deal effectively with her clients.
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I do not believe any natural frontier can be found north of thatvastterritory.
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It is avastterritorywith poor communications in many areas.
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If we do, we shall lose our moral right to control thisvastterritory.
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They have all thisvastterritoryunder their own control.
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Our heritage which covers thisvastterritoryconsists of spaces peopled by subject races.
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The question that influenced us most was, who was going to lend thisvastterritorymoney for development if the security was liable to be destroyed?
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It is impossible to decide or to ascertain who, from day to day, is governing even a single village in thevastterritory!
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Of course, he has to cover avastterritoryand it is not possible to cover every question.
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I will not go into details now, except to say that it is a bold and imaginative scheme of enormous importance to avastterritorywhich contains millions of people.
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We havevastterritoryundeveloped and every climatic condition in which we can grow every possible crop, and we have every known mineral ready to our hands.
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It is sure to contribute in a large degree to the development of thatvastterritoryas well as to the consolidation and the elevation of its people.
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It is avastterritory.
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Over avastterritoryyou had every farm destroyed, every dam for water broken, all the cattle swept away, the whole life of the country reduced to chaos.
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It is almost inconceivable the pace with which he has been able to inoculate the whole of thatvastterritorywith the virus of discontent.
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Luba art was not very uniform because of thevastterritorywhich the kingdom controlled.
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Kargaly is located in the southern part of thisvastterritory.
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But thisvastterritorywas never politically united by a strong central power.
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