noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a river valley
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They came to a wide river valley.
lily of the valley
rift valley
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
beautiful
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Rippling from a hidden mountain lake it runs eastward through the Tujetschtal, a beautiful and little-known valley .
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Meadowgate Farm was situated in one of the most beautiful valleys around Mitford.
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Or, you can carry on up the narrow and beautiful Nive valley to the village of Esterençuby.
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Linthal takes its name from the river Linth which drains the beautiful transverse valley that largely makes up the canton of Glarus.
deep
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A deep valley of stone fell away beneath us; the glittering air danced above it.
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As the streets and lanes gave way to countryside and sloped toward the deeper valley , the rolling farmland began.
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I imagine most of us have entered that deep valley , and maybe some of us are in it now.
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I can see it snuggled into one of the deep valleys in the encircling high hills.
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But now they were standing at the head of a deep valley in the moor with their ears and tails down.
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Instead, it was one of the deepest valleys he had ever been through.
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Coberley Mill, formerly known as Cubberly, nestles deep in the valley , close to the village church.
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The north of the area is distinguished by enormous forested mountain plateaux with deep river-carved valleys .
fertile
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A land of rich fertile valleys that reach up to touch the edge of wild moorland.
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A shallow river had scooped a fertile valley out of the limestone mountains.
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The almond trees grow in the fertile valleys of California, neatly planted in straight lines.
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After passing the shapely peak of Ben Resipol, the road reaches a fertile side valley occupied by the village of Strontian.
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Nestled within these bleak volcanic highlands are fertile valleys filled with game plentiful enough to satisfy even the appetites of dragons.
green
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Red-brown cattle munched orchard grass down in their pale green valley oases.
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The train pulled out, heading for Loughton along the green valley of the Roding.
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What thoughts they brought to his mind of spring in the green valleys of his far-off canton of Luzern.
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Lush, green valleys and wooded dells.
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There was a spectacular view, a green secluded valley with the mountains towering all around.
high
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Here indeed, is the entrance to the two most celebrated high valleys of the Pyrenees.
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Cold nights in the high valleys , but relatively warm, sunny days.
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Some may even reach the higher valleys of the Alps.
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Mountain crests rose impressively high and the valleys were deep.
little
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Down behind him in the straggly little valley , I notice that a few allotments do remain, after all.
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There are just three houses there; three seventeenth-century stone-built farmhouses nestling comfortably in the shelter of a little valley .
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The line here ran through a deep little valley and the hillside on both sides of the line was very rocky.
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He had walked across the rugged little valley , leaving his horse tied to a tree near the Round Tops.
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It sat there in its little valley , smiling at all our modern ideas.
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It is full of little valleys and defiles.
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Far below, unheeded and unheeding, something else was entering this little handful of valleys .
low
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A band of cloud stretched low across the valley and it was raining slightly.
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Also, you could then irrigate the lower valley lands, which usually have better soil and a longer growing season.
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During the monsoon, the dirt track which connects McLeod Ganj with Dharamsala lower down the valley turns into sludge.
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Surface cultivation is rare, except in some lower lying valleys so the changes have subtle origins.
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Between the towering rows of spires lies a low valley up to a few miles wide.
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It is currently a popular picnic area and vantage point for the lower valley providing magnificent views over lush countryside.
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It drowned the lower deeper valleys , so forming rias which provide excellent sheltered harbours.
narrow
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In narrow valleys surface boulders dominate the landscape.
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The walk began by following a track which climbed steeply up a narrow , twisting valley .
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He was in a narrow valley , woodland rising up on the opposite side.
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Ahead lay a steep, narrow valley and a village, diminutive at this distance, its buildings clustered round a harbour.
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Katmandu airport is notoriously tricky, located in a narrow saucer-shaped valley surrounded by snowy mountains and pine hills.
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Plenty of cover in its narrow , winding valley .
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Our first day's walk took us along stony tracks, through forests of birch and pine and into a narrow valley .
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Fording the Kale Water, they turned up its far bank into the quickly narrow shallow valley .
small
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Keep to the bottom of the small valley rather than following the track which goes off to the left.
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In the end, this small valley along the northern coast of California will become a solid block of life.
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Everywhere you can see a rich greenery of grass and trees, covering smaller hills and valleys .
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The view swept down to a small valley with church spires, orderly farms, and freshly planted fields.
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We wound our way past open fields into shady woods until we entered the neck of a small valley .
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The Mormon Lake area is surrounded by ponderosa pines, and the lodge sits in a small valley surrounded by mountains.
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Eventually, we arrived at a small , damp valley , peat and heather-filled, where insects hummed in the still air.
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He was at the head of a small valley .
upper
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Travel has been easier than in the upper course valleys and so a few villages have grown to become market towns.
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They started in small workshops in the upper course valleys of the River Don and its tributaries, such as the River Sheaf.
wide
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The floor of the wide valley was carpeted with hummocky grass.
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Later it crosses the Shyok river, a major feeder of the Indus, and enters the wide valley below the Siachen.
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The sun shone over a wide grassy valley .
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It ran straight up a wide shallow valley , with tilled fields on both sides, to a huddle of buildings.
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Six hours from the start, in a wide lush valley , Fusil had placed his first checkpoint.
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At last the track levelled into a wide grassy valley .
wooded
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This beautiful monastic ruin is set in a deeply wooded valley by the River Rye.
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It quickly develops into a major river flowing within a deep, wooded valley .
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Turn left and head to Rhigian Cottage, then go right on the path through the wooded valley .
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And the route passes through wooded river valleys and along green lanes.
■ NOUN
bottom
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If we stay put they can stay up there and fry the valley bottom , and us with it.
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The alternative was to ride along the main highways, which tend to hug the flat land along valley bottoms .
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It's large a low level route, sticking to valley bottoms and passes rather to going up on the fells.
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Quite apart from the major wetlands, every valley bottom below a certain contour line must have been soggy and at times impassable.
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Rock and ice falls scarred the slopes and the valley bottom was a sea of fine sand.
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In the Itchen and Avon valleys in Hampshire the farms are apparently regularly spaced along the valley bottoms .
floor
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In the hummocky terrain of the valley floor the hollows, channels and gentle slopes are occupied by peat.
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Most stayed, and more than 100 campers were moved inside from several flooded campgrounds on the valley floor .
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Near Wolfstein the roads run along a valley floor , the hills on either side rising to above 1,000 feet.
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The cooking fires were smoldering when we reached the valley floor , but the hamlet was empty of people.
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Follows valley floors all the way, with close-up views of some daunting-looking peaks.
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As a metaphor, consider the way rocks make their way to the valley floor .
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Not all paths are defined, but valley floors are obvious; easy route-finding.
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Most of the town is built on the valley floor , but the east and west sides rise into gentle hills.
rift
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Luisenlund Bronze Age monoliths and the rift valley of Ekkodal.
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Seafloor spreading becomes tangible in the rift valleys of the mid-ocean ridges.
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Upland masses exist on either side of a central rift valley .
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Further evidence contradicting the traditional symmetric rift valley model comes from observations of their morphology and surface structure.
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Some rift valleys are analogous to mid-oceanic ridges in experiencing shallow earthquakes and volcanicity.
river
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All records are for the river valleys , levels, or the coast.
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Anticipating the attacks, de Lattre had strengthened the Red River valley with hundreds of cement blockhouses and new airfields.
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As the climate gradually became cooler and more moist, humans again moved in, usually following river valleys .
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We did a day walk up the Catlin's river valley .
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The truck roared and ripped down the last descent to the river valley .
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Other examples exist in Essex, Sussex, and in some of the big river valleys .
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I watched as a rainstorm moved down the Platte River valley from the northwest.
side
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The field stretched in a long oblong down the valley side , filling their eyes.
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Instead, she moved from the chair on the valley side of the porch to the bench on the trail side.
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Most of this local iron ore was mined from shallow pits and from adits dug into the valley sides .
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The slopes of the valley sides are often too steep to cultivate.
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The valley sides steepened into a fjord-like inlet.
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The many steep slopes of the valley sides make ploughing difficult and even dangerous.
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At the water's edge snipe rise and trill, while on the valley side there are wheatears and redwings.
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The middle course valleys are broader and the valley sides are less steep than in the upper course.
■ VERB
fill
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Shadows began to fill the valleys below us.
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Life is trying to fill the whole valley in.
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If you fill in the valleys with the absent ocean, what d'ye get?
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Twenty-foot drifts filled the valleys and swales, covering whatever frozen grass was left to eat.
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And every spring the Great Spirits remember her sacrifice and fill the hills and valleys with those flowers.
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His shouts would fill the whole valley , echoing from the dark green hills of bush.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the Mississippi River valley
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By some weird arithmetic, the more life stuffs itself into the valley , the more spaces it creates for further life.
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Each year several thousand people leave the valleys and few arrive.
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From here they could control both river valleys, and deny Douglas his passage home by either.
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Mam Tor is the first objective on the walk along the ridge which separates the Hope and Edale valleys.
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New designs with foot pivots allow snow hikers to tackle almost any hill or valley .
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The marines would land on the beach north of the valley .
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The wind, blasting up the valley , decided the direction the trees would fall.