strip of land
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstripandland
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strip
noun
uk/strɪp/us/strɪp/
a long, flat, ...
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land
noun
uk/lænd/us/lænd/
the surface of the earth that is not covered ...
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(Definition ofstripandlandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Each limbo, now conceived of as a family homestead, was to use a particularstripoflandextending into the hinterland.
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Private-sector breeders use strip trials in which each entry occupies a singlestripoflandacross the far mer's field.
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Third, artisanal fishers and their families are unlikely to depart in mass from their narrow stripoflandand sea to find employment elsewhere inland.
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They are confined to camps in astripoflandabout five miles wide and twenty miles long.
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What is needed is clear strategic planning for that vulnerablestripofland.
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As the owner of a farm which comprises a narrowstripofland, with extensive plantations and woodland on either side of it.
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I am thinking of astripoflandin my constituency of about 100 acres, which cost £60 per acre to reclaim.
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The harbour is part only of a wider plan to utilise this barrenstripofland.
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There is a court leet and farmers are fined a small amount if they stray from onestripoflandto another.
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Astripofland25 metres wide on either side of a railway is no good to anyone.
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It increases the difficulties of the older people who in the past would have retired on a smallstripoflandwhich they owned.
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It does not deal merely with astripoflandfor widening a road or even for constructing a road.
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They had to go on paying because they were carrying coal across a narrowstripofland.
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Nobody lives on thisstripofland.
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Where the traffic justifies that course, trunk roads are now planned with two carriageways, divided by a centralstripofland.
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I understand from my talks with the promoters that improved facilities on thisstripoflandis one of the main objectives.
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It may be necessary, in order to provide access, to acquire merely astripofland.
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It has a littlestripoflandjoining it—is having to withstand the claim of its people to control that island.
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Thisstripoflandhas tremendous potential as a commercial route.
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