adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be easily/readily/freely available (= easy to get )
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The material used was cheap and readily available.
breathe easily
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Make sure the injured person can breathe easily.
can easily imagine
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I can easily imagine how frightening the accident must have been.
clearly/easily/readily distinguishable
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The cheese is easily distinguishable by its colour.
cope easily
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The exam was tough but she coped easily.
could easily (= would be likely to )
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A faulty connection could easily cause a fire.
easily accessible
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There is a church which is easily accessible from my home.
easily beat sb
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Jason easily beats me at chess every time we play.
easily bored
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Teenagers are easily bored in the holidays.
easily led (= it is easy for other people to persuade him to do things that he should not do )
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He’s not a bad boy. He’s just easily led .
easily offended
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radio listeners who are easily offended
easily persuaded
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He was fairly easily persuaded .
easily the best
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The series was easily the best TV drama this year.
easily the most
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A recent study showed that gardening is easily the most popular activity among the over 50s.
easily visible
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By July 26, Mercury should be easily visible in the evening sky.
easily
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Chavez won the election easily.
easily/lightly (= without much thought )
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This is a question that cannot be dismissed lightly.
easily/readily accessible
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Computers should be made readily accessible to teachers and pupils.
give up...easily
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You shouldn’t give up so easily .
let sb off lightly/easily (= give someone a less serious punishment than they deserve )
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I think young criminals are let off far too lightly.
might easily (= it is likely )
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One of the guards might easily panic and shoot someone .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
accessible
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The Shoctector has an easily accessible Test/Reset button to give you additional peace of mind each time you use it.
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Stax in Memphis was initially white-owned, easily accessible to outsiders, filled with leaders of all kinds.
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Sharing can be through meetings and conferences, but a written report is obviously more easily accessible to others.
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And even there when I tugged at lashings which were easily accessible , they too snapped.
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It is all fun and all the venues are easily accessible .
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This complementary pair of colors is easily accessible in cyclamen, poinsettias and berrying plants.
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There should be a proper waiting room, with chairs, magazines to read and cloakroom facilities easily accessible .
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Wraps growing popularity makes them easily accessible .
available
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Information on services easily available . 9.
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And opportunities to bet on the stock market have become far more easily available .
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It made the annual holiday more easily available to millions.
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When they become rich and prominent, they find women easily available .
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Clearly, this must be the case so long as it remains the only easily available platform for interactive multimedia.
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Acceptable use policies of non-ISPs are published and are usually easily available in the network information service centers of the target network.
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If you don't know the frequency of services and current fares make sure that this information is easily available .
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The I-way makes this practice more affordable and easily available to a number of small firms.
■ VERB
become
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Streetwise keeps students' motivation strong ... Teenage students at intermediate level can easily become bored and frustrated.
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One can easily become disenchanted with over-professionalized people who are undoubtedly unworthy when subjected to the judgment of more reflective scholars.
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Constant activity can easily become an ineffectual nervous twitch.
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The meat can easily become dry and stringy although, when cooked properly, they are extremely flavorful.
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Relatives need help with grieving, for past relationships in the family can easily become crystallised at death.
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And we need to warn them that the words they are using can very easily become fighting words.
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They can easily become workaholics, name droppers, gossips and braggarts.
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There is, in fact, so much to see here that a traveler can easily become overwhelmed.
come
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Act 2, Scene 4 Comment Isabella can very easily come across as a prig.
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Though I hardly seemed qualified to write a book about a twenty-year marriage, the novel came easily .
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Basil was not a great public speaker but what came through was all the more effective because it had not come easily .
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Revision comes easily to young children.
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She watched as his eyes fell to her mouth and knew what could so easily come next.
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Such calculations will never come easily .
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Effort and application were not needed in the first instance and did not come easily when the need arose.
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As with many gifted people, a moment came when Fanshawe was no longer satisfied with doing what came easily to him.
find
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It is in a villa which you will easily find because it is near the river.
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References to glossolalia are to be found easily .
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Anne knew Nina could easily find a place to kill herself in private.
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Post-job employees are going to need a much more flexible organization to work in than they can easily find today.
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In New York, the board could easily find allies.
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Most will easily find something to please the palate at a moderate price.
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Certainly they could easily find themselves short of energy amid plenty.
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Improved form-filling software lets you easily find lines in a form.
fit
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It is usually simplest if a washing machine can go next to the sink, but it can easily fit in other places.
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But a little beef now and then can easily fit in a well-balanced diet.
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Yet, overlapping is inevitable whenever risk categories fit easily into more than one compartment.
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Our own children have not seen much evidence that women can easily fit a career around a marriage and motherhood.
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They housed children who could not find foster parents or who were too old to fit easily into a new family environment.
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Teacher Song, a slender man, fit easily into the crawl space.
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Range Rover diffs will fit easily but, with a worn engine, will probably make the consumption worse than it is.
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They may seem a lot, but in fact they fit easily into a single bag.
identify
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The style was international, eclectic, easily identified , but almost impossible to define.
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A chimpanzee is an easy recipient for human projections since humans can easily identify with the emotional expressions of chimpanzees.
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Although section area and orientation differed among the tissue blocks, the epithelium and lamina propria were easily identified .
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The upper level was diagnosed by the columnar-squamous epithelial border, which was always easily identified .
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However it is easily identified by the large black blotch that covers a large proportion of its upper body and dorsal fin.
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Of course, I am more easily identified and more distinctive, if not distinguished, than most authors.
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Many potential purchasers can be easily identified with minimum cost using research.
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This society seemed self-contained; those who felt exploited could easily identify the enemy - the landlord or money lender.
lead
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It could only too easily lead to acquiescence in the evil done by the powers of this world.
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The talented people who make up Great Groups are not easily led .
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The arrival of a bailiff can easily lead to confrontation, and most people don't know their rights.
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We are so easily led to pernicious solutions.
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Often clients of licensed dealers who were genuinely interested in options would be easily led into warrants.
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This can easily lead to the impression that it is a scholarly work of only archival interest.
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This double area of control can easily lead to the blurring of the job surveyor's responsibilities.
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But combinations of other controls which are viewed benignly may very easily lead to similar effects.
move
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Departments, moreover, are not easily moved in new directions by the outsiders that presidents set over them.
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By their nature, atoms can not be easily moved , changed or copied.
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Solid, rock like, you don't move easily and you take things slowly but surely.
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His community orientation varies from small communities to regional and national units, and he moves easily from one to another.
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Both wheels move easily , their large diameter giving plenty of turning moment.
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Up ahead the two live bears moved easily in the dusk.
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Spider riders can move easily through woods and forests, scuttling over the treetops and through the dense foliage.
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And students would be allowed to move easily among career areas.
reach
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It is easily reached by car, train or boat.
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Some like Las Fuentes were easily reached and took advantage of previous ventures.
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In this procedure part of a gene from the target organism is amplified many millions of times to reach easily detectable levels.
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Both these and the other attractions can be easily reached from our bases in Kissimmee and Orlando.
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So when you fit them, make sure they can be reached easily .
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Can the taps be easily reached ?
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Fuschl is the closest of all our resorts to Salzburg, which is easily reached by a regular bus service.
understand
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Within these two sentences, the situation is easily understood and explained.
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If this problem were easily understood or amenable to fast solutions, there would be few work-inhibited students.
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Bosses still had to be bosses when the occasion required but that was understood easily and early.
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What is happening is most easily understood in terms of the wave picture of light.
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From a wave point of view this is easily understood .
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Meteor Crater is easily understood as the result of a surface impact of a body bearing about fifteen megatons of energy.
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Reality is sometimes too complex to understand easily .
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The modern trial is a contest in which justice is defined in easily understood , monetary terms-dollars.
win
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Although this wins easily , 29 e3! is considerably more murderous.
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After all, President Reagan easily won support for his big tax cut in 1981 from a Democratic-controlled Congress.
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Starting at 14-1 and not expected to be fully fit after his long lay-off, he won easily .
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Martin Kennelly won easily , ending fourteen years of steady employment for Ed Kelly.
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Whitney easily won the summer election in 1908, and Beck was returned with a huge majority.
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If only more people could meet him and see how nice he is, say his managers, we would win easily .
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Johnson easily won the 400, then came back three days later to obliterate the record in the 200.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come easily/naturally (to sb)
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Acting has always come naturally to her.
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Change doesn't always come easily.
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For many of us, communicating openly and sympathetically does not come naturally.
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For many students, the decision to study science came naturally because of family interests.
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Realism, though humanly exacting, is technically what comes naturally.
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Swimming comes naturally to a fish.
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The role doesn't come naturally to either Bush or Gore.
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Though I hardly seemed qualified to write a book about a twenty-year marriage, the novel came easily.
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Whether you are graced appears to be at least partly a matter of temperament, Fowers notes: It comes naturally.
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You will probably find that this comes naturally and that you are happier and more confident than you thought you would be.
not sit well/easily/comfortably (with sb)
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Certainly, such views as these do not sit comfortably with managerialism and are equally at odds with restricted professionality.
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He had never before been accused of stealing and it did not sit well with him.
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One might think a hockey fan would not sit easily at a sewing machine piecing together patches for a quilt.
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The adornment, thought Eloise smugly, would not sit well amidst so much blubber.
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The closures, which began late last month, does not sit well with many of the regulars.
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The populist vision of a peasant landholding democracy does not sit easily with alternative visions of women's rights.
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The volatility and their non-guaranteed status do not sit comfortably with the official line linking the two benefits.
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This conviction did not sit well either with regimental soldiering or with Whitehall.
sb can breathe easy/easily
scare easily
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Being a police officer isn't a job for someone who scares easily.
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I'll go down and see what that noise was. I don't scare easily you know.
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I don't think I scare easily, but I sure as hell scared myself that weekend.
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When Glass bought his house, the area where he lives was full of crack dealers so he does not scare easily.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A burglar could easily climb in through that window.
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He is easily the highest paid player in baseball.
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I'll easily finish the report by Friday.
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Lizzie and Jane are so alike that they're easily mistaken for each other.
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She smiled easily when I asked about her hometown.
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The bike can easily be assembled in thirty minutes.
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These plates are easily damaged, so please be careful with them.
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When I went to college, I made friends very easily .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As with many gifted people, a moment came when Fanshawe was no longer satisfied with doing what came easily to him.
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Before she had taken him over he must have written too easily .
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But the balance is easily adjustable with any Dolby Pro Logic receiver.
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It can just as easily fall back into anti-feminism.
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It is a claim not to be easily dismissed.
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Some of the hilltops were easily eight hundred feet above the valleys.
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You could easily categorise your addresses into five sections.