wide avenue

collocation in English

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wide
adjective
uk
/waɪd/us
/waɪd/
having a larger distance from one side to the other than is usual or expected, especially in comparison with the length of something; ...
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avenue
noun[C]
uk
/ˈæv.ə.njuː/us
/ˈæv.ə.nuː/
a wide road with trees or tall buildings on both sides, or a wide country path or road with trees on ...
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(Definition ofwideandavenuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This capitalises on the different mandates of the two journals to provide awideavenuefor contaminants researchers and practitioners.
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The difficulty has been to identify them and to legislate for relief in a way that would not open awideavenuefor tax avoidance.
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A magnificentwideavenue, the broad walk, is flanked by lime trees going east to west.
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The street was once awideavenue, much of which has been converted into parking space.
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The former canal along with the two narrow roads which ran alongside it together became awideavenueand a major thoroughfare.
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The houses along thewideavenuewere set back with room for trees creating a park-like effect.
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There was a further weakness: the wide avenues were receptive to vehicular traffic but caused trouble to pedestrians, especially in the circuses.
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Traffic congestion is limited in the town centre, and the wide avenues, with well-planted shrubberies and grass verges, are immaculately kempt and are free from all rubbish.
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I think that that is a mistaken approach to the problem, because it would have opened wide avenues for further tax avoidance which we very much want to avoid.
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The ancient medieval and 16th century walls were dismantled, wide avenues were opened and a rational urban plan was designed.
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In the restoration following the fire, silver birch trees were planted along wide avenues to prevent future fires from spreading.
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It contains wide avenues, a cinema, theatre, large hospital and a big church.
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These two men are largely responsible for the wide avenues, large lakes, parks and jutting skylines that characterize the city today.
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In addition to its rich vegetation and wide avenues, the cemetery is famous for plot 301, where the martyrs of the 1956 revolution were buried.
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A network of wide avenues cut through the cemetery and long, metre-high hedges subdivide the area.
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Wide avenues, alternatively 200ft m and convert, would emanate from large circular plazas like spokes from the hub of a wheel.
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The neighbourhood has many wide avenues and streets with large houses, although housing in the smaller streets is more modest.
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Wide avenues between the neighborhoods make traffic flow relatively freely inside the city.
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The top balcony, though narrow, offers a commanding view of the wide avenues that surround the column.
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It is now a green town with wide avenues.
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