noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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arabian
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About 10 million years before that, another rift began along what is now the southern shore of the Arabian peninsula .
entire
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Many of them seemed like tiny oases hemmed in by the alien rubber which overran the entire peninsula .
iberian
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The Roman past lay more heavily over the Iberian peninsula .
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The idea of a holiday in the north-west of the Iberian peninsula had developed in the preceding six months.
■ VERB
divide
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The United States has 37,000 troops based in the southern half of the divided peninsula .
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The United States continued to insist that any deal-making regarding the divided peninsula would have to involve Seoul.
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The prospects for any sort of reconciliation on the divided peninsula appeared slim indeed.
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The upshot of all this was to heighten the military tension on the divided peninsula .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although the rebel numbers are small, there are known to be many infiltrators and sympathisers on the peninsula .
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But it is obvious that one relatively small peninsula can not contain this missionary zeal indefinitely.
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Fewer people make it out to the peninsula .
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One resident of that city purchased five hundred rifles for shipment to the peninsula .
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The Army and the police remained under intense pressure in the Jaffna peninsula where many camps and stations were under siege.
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The Mayan civilisation flourished in the Yucatan peninsula between 300AD and 900AD.
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This provided for the withdrawal of federal forces from the strategic Prevlaka peninsula overlooking Dubrovnik by Oct. 20.
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When you own a peninsula , you own the very essence of the Chesapeake country.