Collocations withland
These are words often used in combination withland.
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abandoned land
In the west, it is highly saline causing areas with high soil salinity levels resulting in reduced productivity, abandoned land, and severe environmental impacts.
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aboriginal land
It also notes how the federal laws' provisions concur with international requirements for aboriginal land rights.
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acre of land
Almost every acre of land has been utilized, rationally planned and arranged or frozen into a nature reserve.
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agricultural land
This included claiming some land as "state land" and registering most other agricultural land as m-r-.
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ancestral land
For instance, the ancestral land going with the lineage hall was situated at quite a distance from the latter building.
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arable land
In addition, an increase in the population necessitated the need for more arable land.
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arid land
They have found in this arid land only a temporary resting place for their tired feet.
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chunk of land
We are people with a problem, not just a chunk of land for politicians to discuss.
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communal land
Initially, many of these activities were carried out on communal land.
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conquered land
Within a year, they had marched in victory back across the conquered land.
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cultivated land
The iron oxide presumably gets leached out from the surface of the cultivated land.
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developed land
We follow a conservative approach measuring the value of developed land.
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disputed land
However, since no agreement was reached between the earth priests, no decision was made about to whom the disputed land belonged.
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distant land
Manure spread on increasingly distant land as nearer land availability becomes scarce.
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expanse of land
There is a considerable expanse of land adjoining the highway boundary.
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fantasy land
My reply did not come from fantasy land.
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faraway land
Others saw him in a faraway land, living in a cave.
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fertile land
The more fertile land suitable for groundnut production tends to be some distance from habitation.
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forested land
All that is required is the clearing of forested land and the planting of cocoa trees.
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hectare of land
This is possible through the promotion of an intensive farming system by increasing the amount of labor and capital applied per hectare of land.
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holy land
The holy land is on fire.
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in a foreign land
Sojourners do not intend to stay in a foreign land for good.
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irrigated land
The supply of irrigated land is fixed.
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land application
An important part of planning slurry utilization and management system is estimating the amount of nutrients available for land application.
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land bridge
Transitory states in relaxing ecosystems of land bridge islands.
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land clearing
A majority of these activities require land clearing because many households own land that was originally forest.
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land conservation
Once land conservation policies meet the agricultural frontier, they have two opposing effects on the economy's aggregate rents.
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land cover
The use of plant functional type classifications to model global land cover and simulate the interactions between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere.
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land degradation
This response is observed even though newly cleared fields are typically in places where risks of erosion and other forms of land degradation are acute.
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land disposal
These led to significant changes in the assumptions made in the first study, including increases in infrastructure costs and land disposal values.
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land mammal
It has one and a half times the amount of blood that a land mammal of comparable size possesses.
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land management
These classes not only facilitated land development in the early phase but, in many cases, conducted large-scale direct land management using dependent labour.
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land navigation
Land navigation includes the ability to read maps, use a compass, and other navigational skills.
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land of plenty
We must make a contrast in this land of plenty where there have been gainers and there are people doing well.
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land planning
We have made tenderers aware of the need to take account of land planning policies in completing their bids.
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land snail
Climatic warming due to thermal-radiation from an urban area as possible cause for the local extinction of a land snail.
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land speculation
This is the best way to eliminate the risk of land speculation and at the same time increase fiscal revenues.
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land speculator
One can be a land speculator—some of them make the train robbers look like juvenile delinquents.
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land surface
Sensitivity of climate simulations to land surface and atmospheric boundary layer treatments: a review.
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land surveyor
He regularly acted as land surveyor, a task which had him out measuring fields in all weathers.
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land transport
A comparison of animal versus human energetics and wheat versus maize productivity demonstrates that other factors may significantly outweigh the possible economic advantage of draft animals over human land transport.
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land use
Their heterogeneity was reflected in their origin, patterns of land use, and living conditions.
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land vertebrate
The skeleton has a reconstructed skull measuring 2.65 m long, which makes it an easy candidate for the longest skull of any land vertebrate.
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occupied land
More training stables occupied land made cheap by arable farming's decline.
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parcel of land
Many mapping projects were (and are) instigated as a means of controlling (defensively or offensively) a parcel of land and its inhabitants.
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patch of land
Subsequent trials were planted on a different patch of land following a pre-set crop rotation plan for each location.
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piece of land
A piece of land, adjacent to the site, was also donated by a local resident to create more space for seating.
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plot of land
Individual families did not have any claim to a plot of land on the basis of previous use.
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reclamation of land
Acquisition would also allow for reclamation of land and wharf buildings on the waterfronts.
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state-owned land
Field work will be carried out on other state-owned land which will more amply meet the needs of the station.
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strange land
Readers are invited into this strange land to join the authors in exploring whether there is a developmental psychology of late life.
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stretch of land
It was a well-watered stretch of land with fertile plains and imposing mountains.
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strip of land
Each limbo, now conceived of as a family homestead, was to use a particular strip of land extending into the hinterland.
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surrounding land
Most of the surrounding land was unimproved, although there were a growing number of homes in the vicinity.
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tract of land
The state owned an adjacent tract of land on which it intended to build additional government buildings.
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tribal land
The era of allotment (1887-1934) was disastrous for tribal land-holdings.
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undeveloped land
Lastly, there was an undeveloped land duty.
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unused land
The statistics on cultivated and unused land must be interpreted carefully as they were computed only for households that actually used land during the survey year.
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vast land
There is of course a vast land bank of greenfield sites ready for development.
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wild land
Taking 'biodiversity' to mean indigenous plant and animal species and the amenity value of wild land.
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wooded land
It is set in lovely wooded land.
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