steep hill

collocation in English

meaningsofsteepandhill

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steep
adjective
uk
/stiːp/us
/stiːp/
(of a slope) rising or falling at a ...
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hill
noun[C]
uk
/hɪl/us
/hɪl/
an area of land that is higher than the ...
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(Definition ofsteepandhillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is rather like going down asteephillwithout brakes: it is very risky.
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If you drive a motor car up asteephillwithout changing gear, its speed will be gradually checked, and eventually it will stop.
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We had attempted to close one school which was three miles up a rathersteephillfrom the local large village or market town.
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You had to back your own car, perhaps down asteephill, with a cliff on one side and a precipice on the other.
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Aged persons have been taken to their beds, because they have slipped on thissteephill.
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He runs out of petrol at the-crucial moment halfway up asteephill.
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It is also a long way if there is no bus route or there is asteephill.
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Quite simply, however, we still have asteephillto climb when it comes to tackling social exclusion issues.
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The canal is carried over the main road by a narrow, low bridge at a difficult angle on a fairlysteephill.
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To get to one, one has to climb a verysteephill—and it is steep—and go about a mile.
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One would go off the bridge, down the switchback and then one would face thesteephill.
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It is at the top of asteephill.
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At one end, there is an appreciablysteephillwith a bend in the road.
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Unfortunately, many cars had found a rat run and were making their way down asteephill.
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Thesteephill, which must be climbed from all approaches, is a barrier to communication and travel.
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The main receiving branch is up asteephill, with no public transport and a car park that is full at all times.
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Steephillwarning signs expressing gradients in percentage terms were first prescribed in 1975.
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There is a continuous andsteephill.
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It is built on asteephill.
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When they come to asteephillthey run the cycle track round it, and do not ask the cyclist to sweat and push his way to the top.
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