adjective
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a geographical area (= one that is shown on a map )
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The survey took place in three geographical areas.
a geographical boundary
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Today satellite communications cross all geographical boundaries.
geographical location
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its isolated geographical location
geographical spread
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the geographical spread of the company’s hotels
sth’s historical/geographical/political etc origins
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This type of story has its historical origins in eighteenth century gothic novels.
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the geographical origins of the plant
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area
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In addition, there were local initiatives such as Club 403 which attempted to provide viewdata to domestic consumers in a limited geographical area .
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Currently those agreements limit the distribution of radio broadcasts to specific geographical areas .
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Linguistic ability posed special problems where one particular geographical area was concerned.
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Civilizations as geographical areas Civilizations, vast or otherwise, can always be located on a map.
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The geographical area where each sale was made; 6.
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In 1914 they were still few in number and often had impractically large geographical areas to deal with.
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Those that were traded over wide geographical areas , though, can be useful in linking the dating frameworks of different regions.
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These can vary dramatically within quite small geographical areas .
basis
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In both networks, operations are organized on a geographical basis .
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Asset allocation in an international fund was traditionally done on a geographical basis .
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Place - very simply the organisation is divided on a geographical basis .
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Calls to the single market hotline are not necessarily recorded on a geographical basis .
boundary
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Yet here was a view of the Earth that showed no political, racial or geographical boundaries .
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However, in cyberspace, geographical boundaries are irrelevant, and people of different views are thrown together.
change
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And once again this geographical change coincided with shifts in the economy at national level.
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For the first approach, the question was why did that specific geographical change take place?
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Major geographical changes appear to have caused widespread extinctions by the destruction of habitats.
distribution
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These two techniques of casting are regarded as distinct and having different geographical distributions .
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In other words, what is needed is not only an equal but an equitable geographical distribution of educational resources.
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So the geographical distribution of the disease in older women is more likely to point to dietary pathogens.
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The geographical distribution of internet hosts further illustrates the wide differences in connectivity between rich and poor countries.
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However, the choice significantly affects the final geographical distribution and their use in resource allocation has been questioned.
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Rut these have to some extent been inferred from the discrete geographical distribution of each kingdom's coinage.
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The task, then, of any government attempting to reduce inequalities in the geographical distribution of services is very difficult.
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A number of studies have looked at the geographical distribution of doctors both in regions and in smaller districts.
information
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He was also to present a letter of congratulations and a sword and gather military and geographical information .
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A paper map represents geographical information in analogue fashion, using lines and symbols.
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Remote sensing and geographical information systems.
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They also received geographical information from native people in map form.
isolation
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Steamboats, railways and telegraphs broke down geographical isolation .
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To begin with Darwin had solved this problem by invoking geographical isolation .
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One process which has certainly been important is geographical isolation .
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Frequently many rural communities are faced with more than their physical and geographical isolation .
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There is debate about whether a single species can split into two without geographical isolation .
location
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Their geographical location tended to coincide with those areas in which the 1936 rising had been successful.
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Yet his geographical location worked in his favor.
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The Armagnacs were in a particularly vulnerable position as a result of the geographical location of their lands.
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They have cut the nerve of traditional religion, which is often tied to specific geographical locations and cultural patterns.
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Bearing in mind the geographical locations of the superpowers, this is easier to contemplate than achieve.
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The geographical location of the installations and predominant meteorological conditions and sources of danger arising from the location of the site 2.
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On the question of regional differences, these studies of financial exchanges suggest that geographical location is rather unimportant.
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Manuscripts are usually sent to two or three reviewers, chosen for their expertise rather than their geographical location .
market
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Netwise thought direct sales would increase if it expanded into new geographical markets .
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It is also interested in selective acquisition as a way of moving into new geographical markets or new up-and-coming product areas.
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However, the Commission may focus on regional markets and even on local markets, where these are the relevant geographical markets.
mobility
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Evidence for this is provided by the relatively low rates of geographical mobility in Britain as compared with other countries.
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This project is intended to explore the complex relationship between geographical mobility and voting.
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This brings us to our third point, that of geographical mobility as it affects different social groups.
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Though geographical mobility is possible, to move means severing all the social ties which the miner has built up.
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In areas of geographical mobility people may be neighbours who are culturally strangers.
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These decisions may well also be affected by geographical mobility both for employment and retirement.
pattern
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But geographical patterns like this demand the jet-eye view, or of course maps.
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A new geographical pattern began to take shape.
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Three principal dimensions have dominated geographical patterns of population change in the second half of the twentieth century.
position
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Her geographical position , like Athens', was accessible to outside influences and radical thinking.
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Her population, geographical position , army and industrial strength made her the leading continental nation.
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The geographical position of the frontier fluctuated with the fortunes of war.
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It has six catalogues, each historically in a different market or geographical position .
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Then, because of their geographical position , they were seriously weakened by the Viking onslaught down the east coast.
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Parishes vary enormously in size, according to their geographical position and the special circumstances of their historical development.
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This was partly thanks to Sparta's protected geographical position .
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A country's strategic geographical position might invite super-power attention and meddling in its internal affairs.
proximity
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Those criteria include sibling priority and geographical proximity .
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On that basis, communities of interest, rather than geographical proximity , are redefining the politics of our time.
range
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Prey Selection Throughout its geographical range , Nucella lapillus has a choice of prey species.
region
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Comparison of evidence from other countries or geographical regions would seek to confirm this generalization.
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Such networks are inevitably built up on a regional basis because the finds are usually confined to a limited geographical region .
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Changes in the 1950s and early 1960s brought rationalised boundaries to create tighter geographical regions and eradicate penetrating lines and competition.
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The Act concentrated on training oriented by industry, the other possibilities considered were occupations and geographical regions .
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The research should also indicate specific geographical regions where in-depth analyses of syntactic variation could most usefully be carried out.
scope
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Finally, it is important to remember the geographical scope of any survey.
spread
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The appeal of a merger included widening Martineau's client base, a greater geographical spread and having more resources.
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We also looked for a geographical spread of writers.
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The geographical spread of the observers is skewed.
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The geographical spread is reasonable, though doubtless there will be some omissions apparent depending on where you are based.
variation
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Stereotypes, moreover, are subject to historical change and geographical variation and salience.
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The implications of concentration of provincial press ownership are greater when its geographical variation is taken into account.
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Brandt switched the emphasis from geographical variation to the study of the annual cycle of plankton growth found in the northern oceans.
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There are also strong geographical variations with a particularly heavy concentration in certain inner-city areas, for example Inner London and Newcastle.
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Many other animals show similar geographical variation in size.
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It is well documented that there are geographical variations in both health status and health care expenditure within Britain.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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geographical maps of the area
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Clustering of high fertility families, and geographical and social isolation of some estates, may be important too.
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Each place will tend to support a particular kind of instrument, depending on geographical factors and the available flora and fauna.
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It involves transformation of data so that they are reported at a comparable geographical scale, projection and set of geographical units.
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On a global turnover of £656 million in 1991/2, the geographical break down was: U.S. 38.4%.
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The police demarcated the city into eighteen geographical divisions, the gangs and races into thousands.
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There were both geographical and historical reasons for this exodus towards the West.
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These two techniques of casting are regarded as distinct and having different geographical distributions.
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Yet here was a view of the Earth that showed no political, racial or geographical boundaries.