expanse of land

collocation in English

meaningsofexpanseandland

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expanse
noun[C]
uk
/ɪkˈspæns/us
/ɪkˈspæns/
a large, open area of land, water, ...
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land
noun
uk
/lænd/us
/lænd/
the surface of the earth that is not covered ...
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There is a considerableexpanseoflandadjoining the highway boundary.
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The work is there, and the very nature of the work demands a greatexpanseofland.
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It was closed in 1991, and the vastexpanseoflandhas since been given over to a new housing estate.
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The park comprises a number of separate portions and is not one continuousexpanseofland.
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Land clearing reductions, the majority of the time, create biodiversity benefits in a vastexpanseoflandregions.
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They run across a largeexpanseoflandbefore approaching the two picnickers, completely exhausted and out of breath.
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Land speculation flourished as the plan to control the river and flood a largeexpanseoflandleaked out.
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The idea was to clear some land, build a fortified village and attract the local population to live there and work theexpanseoflandaround it.
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This conjectural new city would have been hippodamic in plan and therefore would have required a flatexpanseoflandwhich only the western hill could have provided.
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There is now an opportunity for the many in this country to share those great expanses of land that are owned by the few.
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There are recurrent instances of reprocessing plants causing the radioactive pollution over wide expanses of land and sea.
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Most animals are kept in large expanses of land, which reduces many of the behavior problems that can be caused by close confinement.
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This form and the next are impervious to damage and generate a strong paperlike substance from its limbs to cover up large expanses of land.
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It contains air-conditioning, a very modern look, a larger structure, and large expanses of land, and thus was chosen as the school to keep.
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The cheetah thrives in areas with vast expanses of land where prey is abundant.
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Speculators bought large expanses of land, often at an under-valued price soon regretted by the previous owner.
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A dendrite configuration, such as a river, takes progressively wider expanses of land to accommodate the flow.
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They are proximate to expanses of land suitable for dry maize farming, and they have ready access to domestic water, tabular sandstone or limestone, and ponderosa pine.
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