faraway country
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffarawayandcountry
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faraway
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌfɑː.rəˈweɪ/us/ˌfɑːr.əˈweɪ/
literary
a long ...
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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 offarawayandcountryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is most certainly not somefarawaycountrywith which we have no links or know little about.
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That litany describes what has been happening to that smallfarawaycountry.
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We are talking not about somefarawaycountry, but about life and death for us, on our own doorsteps.
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We could not turn away in those circumstances, saying that it was afarawaycountryand none of our business.
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It sounds very much like afarawaycountryof whom we know very little, and one remembers what came of that kind of approach to these problems.
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Economic investors had to be attracted and the public had to know thisfarawaycountrybetter.
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There are no more faraway countries of which we know little.
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It is not a problem of two faraway countries: it affects the very heart of communities in this country.
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They cannot be classified at the present time—nor should they ever have been classified—as faraway countries of which we know nothing.
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We drift at our peril into the pathetic view of the 1930s, that these are faraway countries of which we need know nothing.
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As a child, she frequently broke into unusual condition, in which she saw exotic places, faraway countries and never-before seen people.
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However, during the 1940s the station acquired a more powerful transmitter, reaching audiences in faraway countries with its shortwave signal.
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