mountainous country

collocation in English

meaningsofmountainousandcountry

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mountainous
adjective
uk
/ˈmaʊn.tɪ.nəs/us
/ˈmaʊn.tən.əs/
having a lot ...
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country
noun
uk
/ˈkʌn.tri/us
/ˈkʌn.tri/
an area of land that has its own government, ...
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(Definition ofmountainousandcountryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Being flat areas in an essentiallymountainouscountry, the valleys have become densely populated with consequently intensive domestic and recreational use of local water courses.
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The border was never closed, even if such a thing was possible in that wild andmountainouscountry.
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The difficulties of military action, especially involving armoured vehicles in such a heavily wooded andmountainouscountry, require little imagination.
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In these mining valleys with wide stretches ofmountainouscountrybetween then, there is opportunity for employment for thousands of men.
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Such a road would have to traversemountainouscountry, and would be both difficult and extremely expensive to construct.
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Apart from the operational and technical interest of this flight over such extremelymountainouscountry, its political interest and significance was considerable.
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The border is extremely long, and meanders over desolate land and, frequently,mountainouscountry.
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It is, of course, only inmountainouscountrywith lakes and corries that this type of scheme can be carried through.
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They have vast technical problems with themountainouscountry.
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There is a story about a gentleman who lived in amountainouscountryand wanted a new coachman.
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It is inhabited by very primitive peoples, living in heavily wooded andmountainouscountry.
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Microlights are of course of particular value inmountainouscountrywith their high rate of climb and hedge-hopping ability.
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It is amountainouscountry, three-quarters covered by pine forest.
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Human beings, as well as sheep and birds, are in danger from unleashed dogs inmountainouscountryand country where there are quarries.
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I have been there, and it is not amountainouscountryat all.
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There is the poor farming area inmountainouscountryand the poor farming area threatened with depopulation.
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What happened was that effective bloodless police measures were taken inmountainouscountrywhere that is the only way to maintain proper authority.
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We are grappling with centuries-old feuds in difficult, heavily wooded andmountainouscountry.
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Our problem is hard because we have a sparse population, and amountainouscountry, land because very great expense is involved.
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Because now they will get into much more difficult andmountainouscountrywith much worse communications.
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