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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Farmland, especially among growing crops, open grassland, steppes, semi-deserts.
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Galloping horses, endless deserts and grassland steppes.
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In 376, however, the Visigoths found themselves under extreme pressure from the Huns, an Asiatic people from the steppes.
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In the steppes and the Caucasus they knew the dead could rise again, and how they could be stopped.
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Saltcoats was made up of lumpy steppe .
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Their linguistic legacy is still to be found in the major river valleys of the steppe and forest-steppe.
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They settled the steppes so successfully that their numbers grew to forty-five thousand in less than a century.
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Wheat descends from three grasses that hybridized on the Anatolian steppes.