nearest hospital

collocation in English

meaningsofnearandhospital

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near
adjective[before noun]
uk
/nɪər/us
/nɪr/
not far away in distance, time, characteristics, ...
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hospital
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈhɒs.pɪ.təl/us
/ˈhɑː.spɪ.t̬əl/
a place where people who are ill or injured are treated and taken care of by doctors ...
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(Definition ofnearandhospitalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Most patients continue to choose thenearesthospitalor a hospital in their own region.
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Thenearesthospitalwas about 12 miles away.
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Hospitals which do not provide a full service normally refer casualties who present themselves to thenearesthospitalwith an accident and emergency department.
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They want to go to thenearesthospital.
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The arrangement was obviously sensible because ambulances with emergency cases never had a particularly long journey to reach thenearesthospital.
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Furthermore, can be examine the need for every major airport to have a substantial medical presence—not just directions to thenearesthospital?
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It was amazing that the victim managed to survive and travel by pony to thenearesthospital, which was about 50 miles away.
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Is it not obvious that it must be handed over to thenearesthospitalmanagement committee?
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People are conscious of where theirnearesthospitalis.
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The distance to thenearesthospitalcan be 40 miles and bringing care into the community is not an easy matter.
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On another occasion it carried some 200 fever patients nearly 200 miles to thenearesthospital.
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Civil servants and others, too, often tend to think in terms of a twopenny tram ride to thenearesthospitalin the city.
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In some cases this will be thenearesthospital.
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However, a third of my electorate—20,000 people—used it because it was theirnearesthospital.
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The distance now between the docks and thenearesthospitalis measured in miles rather than yards.
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They would probably go to thenearesthospital, and there three or four surgeons would examine the case before there was any operation.
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However, anyone who looks into how the system works will quickly become aware that a patient is not necessarily taken to thenearesthospital.
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It was a two-and-a-half hours' drive to thenearesthospital.
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I accept that in most urban areas the population want to have the bulk of their medical care from thenearesthospital, where their relatives can easily visit them.
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The young men were amazed by the number of elderly people living alone in isolated houses, some of them about 40 miles from thenearesthospital.
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