out-of-the-way place
collocation in Englishmeaningsofout-of-the-wayandplace
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out-of-the-way
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌaʊt.əv.ðəˈweɪ/us/ˌaʊt̬.əv.ðəˈweɪ/
far from places where many people live or ...
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place
noun
uk/pleɪs/us/pleɪs/
an area, town, ...
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(Definition ofout-of-the-wayandplacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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You cannot build a station in anout-of-the-wayplacewhere people cannot approach it.
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Every person who lives in anout-of-the-wayplacehas his letters subsidised by the people who live in heavily populated areas.
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If mining machinery has to be sent by air transport to anout-of-the-wayplace, the monopoly company will not be able to face it.
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I do not object to providing a car park there, in someout-of-the-wayplacewhere the cars cannot be seen.
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They were not in a veryout-of-the-wayplace.
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You arrive at someout-of-the-wayplacewhere you feel alone.
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If it is happening in a relatively stable,out-of-the-wayplacelike my constituency, goodness knows what the extent of the problem would be in urban areas.
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As canals are out-of-the-way places, my guess is that it would be hugely inefficient to spend too much time and effort applying energy conservation measures.
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Therefore, the case of these out-of-the-way places is properly met.
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Very many of them are in out-of-the-way places.
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That is because soldiers are often stationed in out-of-the-way places.
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And unless these improvements are made, land owners cannot get people to live in these out-of-the-way places.
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Exercise particular care when travelling in out-of-the-way places.
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The company provides a valuable service, delivering bulk cargoes to out-of-the-way places.
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Many of them were functioning long before the war with skeleton staffs and were located for obvious reasons in out-of-the-way places.
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I do not think the regiments will have many men because the training there is conducted at very out-of-the-way places.
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Generally, land mines are planted not in out-of-the-way places but in populated areas and on agricultural land as that is where people were fighting.
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Shepherds, and keepers especially, have to live in out-of-the-way places on the ground of which they are in charge.
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