noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
rural
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It's a far cry from the ragged, skinny reality of city streets and the rural hinterland .
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The rural hinterland which supported the two best known cities differed greatly.
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The Party's obvious nervousness about railway and other workers and relative neglect of the rural hinterland needs a little more explanation.
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Smiths, wheelwrights, butchers, tanners, graziers and husbandmen had direct links with the rural hinterland .
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The most rural - and also small - South Western Board had no city larger than Bristol and a large rural hinterland .
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Norwich's growth was not at the expense of its rural hinterland , however, for the surrounding villages grew as well.
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Other towns also had fewer Sinhalese residents than their rural hinterlands .
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Conditions in the guberniia capitals were dire, but they were even worse in the rural hinterland .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But they did not venture into the hinterland , leaving the rebels there undisturbed.
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Henry played the piano out of a van on forays into the hinterland to introduce the Trans-National Drama Research Gymnasium.
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Her early work depicted a dreamy hinterland between landscape and abstraction, like the molten scenes of late Turner.
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Misconceptions can penalise too rigid definition of hinterlands.
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Sitting there giving me an ample vision of her hinterlands was a gesture of power.
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The hinterland of the Liverpool Range in the summer of 1839 was a resplendent, if temporary, Eden.
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The coastal towns are expanding in their hinterlands rather than along the waterfront, and disused industrial areas are favoured for development.
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The extension of commuting hinterlands has increasingly brought rural areas within the daily journey-to-work range of nearby towns.