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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It can be the dreary horror of ribbon development .
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Subsequent ribbon development has been so spectacular that they were booming even before the election announcement.
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These powers were permissive, and in most of Britain urban sprawl and ribbon development continued more or less unabated.
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Two-thirds of the way down is Buchi Emecheta's house, built in the anonymous style of 1930s ribbon development .