I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a country club (= a sports and social club, usually in the countryside )
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Ted was a member of an exclusive country club.
a country cottage (= in the countryside )
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A lot of people dream of living in a country cottage.
a country road
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He was driving along a quiet country road when a tyre suddenly burst.
a country/town church
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an attractive country church surrounded by trees
a far-off land/country/place etc
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visitors from a far-off land
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far-off galaxies
a member state/country/nation (= a country that belongs to an international organization )
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the member states of the European Union
a rural/country craft (= done in the countryside )
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The museum contains exhibits of old rural crafts.
at opposite ends of the country (= a long distance apart )
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They work at opposite ends of the country , so only see each other at weekends.
back country
communist country
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a communist country
country and western
country bumpkin
country club
country cousin
country dancing
country gentleman
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an English country gentleman
country house
country lane
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a quiet country lane
country music
country seat
desert country/land
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Large parts of Oman are desert country.
developed countries/nations
developing countries/nations
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aid to developing countries
fleeing...country
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Masaari spent six months in prison before fleeing the country .
flyover country
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I feel happy at 20,000 feet, approaching flyover country, far above that wasteland between Manhattan and California.
Francophone countries/nations/communities
hill country (= a rural area where there are a lot of hills )
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the rough hill country on the Welsh border
host country/government/city etc
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the host city for the next Olympic Games
hot countries (= where the weather is usually hot )
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people who live in hot countries
industrial countries/nations/states
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a meeting of the world’s major industrial nations
lead the country (= be in charge of its government )
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Some people say she is too old to lead the country .
leave a job/country/Spain etc
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Many missionaries were forced to leave the country.
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It seems that Tony has left the band for good permanently .
mother country
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The bond between the mother country and her former colonies grew stronger.
non-member state/country
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imports from non-member countries
open countryside/country
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At weekends people want to leave the town for open countryside.
parts of the country
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He sometimes went to visit friends in other parts of the country.
sb’s place/country of birth
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I wanted to find out my father’s place of birth.
served...country
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the women who served their country in the war
subjugated people/nation/country
sweep the country/nation/state etc
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a wave of nationalism sweeping the country
the country/place of origin (= the country or place where something is made or produced )
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The rugs are somewhat cheaper in their country of origin.
the sea/mountain/country air
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the salty smell of the sea air
the whole school/country/village etc (= all the people in a school, country etc )
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The whole town came out for the parade.
travel the world/country
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They travelled the world together.
West Country
what is the world/the country etc coming to? (= used to say that the world etc is in a bad situation )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
communist
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It also looks at the problems of mounting an anti- dumping action against a Communist country .
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Take any Communist country and it will be better educated than its neighbors.
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Persons leaving a Communist country were normally presumed to be fleeing persecution.
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In Communist countries , firms can only deal with state trading organisations and the only customer is the government.
developed
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Other developed countries as a group showed growths of 8 percent in exports by volume and of 9 percent in imports.
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Threshing machines spread where grain was harvested in developed countries .
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Millions of jobs are likely to be lost in the developed countries while Third World nations slump deeper into poverty.
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In the developed western countries private resources and the capital market were quite adequate.
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Life expectation at birth is about 45 years in developing countries and more than 70 years in developed countries.
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There are considerable differences between the problems of so-called developed and developing countries .
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In other words, there have been more military coups in underdeveloped than in developed countries .
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Not surprisingly, these developments have been most widely exploited among the developed countries where the barriers to integration have been least.
developing
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They would be the envy of most developing countries .
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Meanwhile, what does a developing country look like?
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It report points out that, in many developing countries , women are primarily responsible for subsistence farming.
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New committees were established on commodities, poverty alleviation, service sectors and economic co-operation among developing countries .
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It has also been suggested that testing for HIV-1 antibodies in these specimens is cost-effective and suitable for screening in developing countries .
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If developing countries tap existing sources for money to improve communications, then there may be less cash for other projects.
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The application of geochemical mapping to environmental studies in developing countries is being investigated.
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There is a large literature on technology transfer, though not much of it is from the perspective of the developing countries .
different
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Activities i. Establish mechanisms for timely and systematic information exchange between public health agencies of different countries about emerging infectious diseases.
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A number of examples of positive action in different countries are noted.
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Details and procedures change, of course, with alterations in the law, and different countries have different systems.
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Was there ever any evidence that juvenile crime rates were significantly different in these countries ?
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Other keyboard types need different country key mappings and some don't even have a pounds sign!
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Today the company boasts 150 titles in 49 different countries , each dealing with a slightly different aspect of the computer trade.
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To refine the final video an early version of the cartoon was screened for children from five different countries .
foreign
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For example, one may owe the duty to the just government of foreign countries .
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They agreed they were quite lucky to escape the fire and set off for a foreign country .
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The war, which broke out in August 1998, involves a number of foreign countries and several rebel groups.
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That undertaking seemed to be developing into a commitment to conduct a private murder investigation in a foreign country .
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Results: Fifty-six percent of Internet requests came from 46 states, and 44 % from 8 foreign countries .
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We have no reason to give it to some foreign country .
industrial
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Also, we should not forget that the period 1945-73 was a special catching up period for most industrial countries .
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The consequence is to be seen in a rise of mass discontent in the main industrial countries .
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Many of the major industrial countries have seen unemployment increase - Interruption Mr. Speaker Order.
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Citizens in both industrial countries and developing countries watch greater amounts of television each year.
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Recent legislation in most industrial countries has helped to turn this into reality.
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Workers reaped benefits far beyond those in nearly every other industrial country .
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By comparison, the woodland areas of industrial countries appear to be growing slightly in size.
other
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In many other countries the initiating steps will be taken by an officer attached to the court.
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The tendency to achieve planned targets by whatever means is well known in other Eastern block countries .
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These larger companies often own plants in different regions of Britain, as well as in other countries .
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The lessons learnt should be of great value to the analysis of other countries in the process of transition.
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Despite all this, very little attention has been given to the issue in Great Britain as compared with other countries .
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Remarkably similar results have been obtained by studies in the United Kingdom and other countries .
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Wealthy people can usually take their money elsewhere, for the benefit of other countries .
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That has to be encouraged if our game is to produce the skills which are found in other countries .
poor
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It is a proposal which would still leave small countries , and especially poor countries, with a requirement to export wastes.
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When it comes to investment, there are today no rich or poor countries .
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Many poor countries neglect their national parks.
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Today most of the women in poor countries work the land.
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They committed themselves to giving 0.7 % of their national wealth to poor countries .
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We are fighting this battle community by community in the poorest countries in the world...
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Objective: Funding of rural development programmes, mainly for the poorest Third-World countries .
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The geographical distribution of internet hosts further illustrates the wide differences in connectivity between rich and poor countries .
rich
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The rich in hot countries made for the mountains.
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To just be rich in this country is no longer any novelty.
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As we become richer as a country we shall be able to do all these things.
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When it comes to investment, there are today no rich or poor countries .
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Thus, it leaves room for poor countries with well-distributed resources and rich countries with concentrated resource distributions.
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High wages no longer come automatically for the unskilled who live in rich countries .
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Investment is often portrayed as a cure-all for the economic ills of rich countries .
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I felt angry that this kind of suffering could go on right here in the richest country in the world.
western
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Yet, despite the mushrooming of coffee bars in the high streets of western countries , supply still exceeds demand.
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The Arab states allocate a higher percentage of their gross domestic product to military expenditures than do the Western countries .
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Today, however, especially among the younger generation, we see a very different set of attitudes in western countries .
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In western countries , in modern times, economic growth and expanding public activity have, with rare exceptions, gone together.
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The community health movement in western countries presents a similar challenge to the medical dominance we have described.
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The 1980s witnessed a significant shifting of the boundary between the public and the private sectors in many Western countries .
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In the developed western countries private resources and the capital market were quite adequate.
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Instead, Britain and other Western countries took the easy path of leaving it to Washington.
whole
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They are recent arrivals, for the whole country was covered by ice until a few thousand years ago.
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The whole country wanted more dams.
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Half a century ago, the whole country was alive with rumours of invasion.
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Advertising has become an $ 88-billion industry-more than the whole country spends on higher education annually.
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The work was to be completed over the whole country in fifteen years.
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The Monterey Coast Guard is the worst in the whole country .
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Recently when a gang stole some large buddha images from the temple complex at Pagan, the whole country was outraged.
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Residents and environmentalists are concerned that Plymouth is becoming a nuclear dumping ground for the whole country .
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member
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However it was reported that member countries considered oil and energy problems less urgent than in the past.
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They have no qualms about forcing member countries to spend money on water they might think could be better spent elsewhere.
music
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Any blend of black and country music would have powerful precedents.
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Given the monochromatic melodrama of modern country music , versatility may not be the correct answer.
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I switch from Limbaugh to a country music station.
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If Dallas wins, country music will take over.
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That was the great thing about country music , it did not mince words.
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On the radio, country music .
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The real point is, country music is back - like it or not.
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No wonder country music sounds the way it does.
■ VERB
flee
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One gentleman has fled the country of his own volition, using yet another identity.
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Major Rabwoni fled the country a few days later.
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He was overthrown in a coup in 1991 and forced to flee the country , but that only fed his popularity.
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Many of the 21 had reportedly fled the country .
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With that, more than 1. 5 million Hutus fled to neighboring countries .
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In order to escape payment Beamish fled the country and he only returned to Britain at irregular intervals from then on.
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Prosecutors suspected from the outset that Stoner had fled the country .
leave
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Four months later she left the country and travelled constantly, following her lover wherever he wanted to go.
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Is there no sense of outrage left in this country ?
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It was to tell the head of state to whom he was accredited that he ought to leave the country .
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This is one of the few cities left in the country where a penny still buys time on a meter.
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Short of them suddenly having to leave the country , there really isn't any excuse.
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Persons leaving a Communist country were normally presumed to be fleeing persecution.
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They were left unmolested in inhospitable country .
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Many writers and intellectuals, particularly in recent days, have left the country altogether.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
city/local/country boy
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For a local boy to come home, this is truly as good as it gets.
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Gary Boyce is a local boy who made it big.
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It was then that she noticed a tall blond man busy coaching some young local boys in football.
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Joseph must have been a country boy .
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Julie was a rich kid who loved to associate with the tougher, more daring local boys .
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Once a happy, handsome country boy , Inman has become hardened, cynical, burned out.
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They went wild with jubilation as they paid homage to the local boy who made President.
country/farming etc folk
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Its country folk are very much at one with the land.
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Louisa's parents were country folk and believed very much in herbal remedies.
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Sadly, country folk have caught on.
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The big occasion for country folk was the A&P Show.
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The customers were mostly farming folk , a hardworking and hard-drinking set of locals who, in general, were convivial and congenial.
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The difference is essentially one of the spirit and it manifests itself in the habits and attitudes of country folk .
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Umbria is a wonderful region where life is simple and the people are unpretentious country folk .
it's a free country
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"You can't say things like that!" "I can say whatever I want - it's a free country."
skip town/skip the country
the West Country
the length and breadth of the area/country/land etc
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But the Jaipur is hoping that eventually passengers will be eating their food the length and breadth of the country.
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They dogged him the length and breadth of the country, wherever the small troupe of players appeared.
the old country
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A change of citizenship did not of course imply a divorce from the old country.
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I remember hearing stories in my childhood about how women like that were stoned to death in the old country.
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If Kevin wanted a root in the old country, then this, she decided, must be it.
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In the Old Country people developed a special taste for TSHUHlnt, since it was different from ordinary cooked meals.
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It is one of the oldest country houses in Northamptonshire.
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Real yearning for the old country.
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So what if Uncle Cedric escaped from the Old Country one step ahead of the law?
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They were very religious people that come over here from the old country.
travel the world/country
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Although he is the son of a Cork cattle dealer, he spent his first few years after school travelling the world.
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By the time she returned from travelling the world, she was in her mid-twenties.
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For the next ten years he travelled the world, visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent.
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He travels the country conducting workshops and has published eight pieces of Classical music for students.
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I used to travel the world for a medium-sized Midwestern bank with five billion dollars in assets.
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She still travels the world, tirelessly delivering papers at scientific gatherings and converting anyone she comes across on the way.
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We travel the world with our gym bags and prayer rugs, unrolling them in the transit lounges.
underdeveloped country/region etc
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However, he is not so undiplomatic as to resist the horrendous hospitality of overindulgent underdeveloped countries.
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I presume you wish to help underdeveloped countries but I fear you could do them considerable harm.
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The high rates of unemployment so characteristic of underdeveloped countries make women especially vulnerable.
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The West creates its power through military research, which forces underdeveloped countries to become passive consumers.
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They are sometimes, especially in underdeveloped countries, illiterate.
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This pole excludes underdeveloped countries from any participation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Brazil is one of the biggest countries in the world.
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Most people in this country are worried about the economy.
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Not many people live in the hill country anymore.
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Riots and demonstrations broke out all over the country after the assassination of Martin Luther King.
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The ceremony was televised in over 30 countries.
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The Midwest is largely farming country .
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The northeast of the country will experience heavy rainfall and high winds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In our field, probably the most powerful guy in the country .
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One of the most important issues facing all countries is the threat of global warming.
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Swanepoel, the pilot whom I had met when I first arrived in the country , tipped me off to that one.
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The bill proposes raising the ownership limit from the current 12 stations covering no more than 25 percent of the country .
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They evolved in the bloodstreams of people in hot countries as a defence against malaria and occur mainly in black people.
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Voice over 13,000 children, across the country , have been treated to Kids Out today.
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When he formed his own contracting firm, his partners were some of the best-known politicians and railway men in the country .
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You have corruption in your country .
II. adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
city/local/country boy
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For a local boy to come home, this is truly as good as it gets.
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Gary Boyce is a local boy who made it big.
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It was then that she noticed a tall blond man busy coaching some young local boys in football.
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Joseph must have been a country boy .
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Julie was a rich kid who loved to associate with the tougher, more daring local boys .
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Once a happy, handsome country boy , Inman has become hardened, cynical, burned out.
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They went wild with jubilation as they paid homage to the local boy who made President.
country/farming etc folk
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Its country folk are very much at one with the land.
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Louisa's parents were country folk and believed very much in herbal remedies.
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Sadly, country folk have caught on.
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The big occasion for country folk was the A&P Show.
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The customers were mostly farming folk , a hardworking and hard-drinking set of locals who, in general, were convivial and congenial.
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The difference is essentially one of the spirit and it manifests itself in the habits and attitudes of country folk .
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Umbria is a wonderful region where life is simple and the people are unpretentious country folk .
skip town/skip the country
the West Country
the length and breadth of the area/country/land etc
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But the Jaipur is hoping that eventually passengers will be eating their food the length and breadth of the country.
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They dogged him the length and breadth of the country, wherever the small troupe of players appeared.
travel the world/country
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Although he is the son of a Cork cattle dealer, he spent his first few years after school travelling the world.
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By the time she returned from travelling the world, she was in her mid-twenties.
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For the next ten years he travelled the world, visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent.
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He travels the country conducting workshops and has published eight pieces of Classical music for students.
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I used to travel the world for a medium-sized Midwestern bank with five billion dollars in assets.
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She still travels the world, tirelessly delivering papers at scientific gatherings and converting anyone she comes across on the way.
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We travel the world with our gym bags and prayer rugs, unrolling them in the transit lounges.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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country music singer Dwight Yoakam
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Brattleboro offers all the pleasures of a small country town.
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It took us an hour to reach the farm house, driving along winding country roads.
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Old country churches are a big tourist attraction.
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twisting country roads
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Umbria is a wonderful region where life is simple and the people are decent country folk.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Country leg, country foot, country stink.