noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
outer
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This is a one metre band marked inside the outer perimeter .
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The outer perimeter carries a raised ridge.
■ NOUN
fence
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The inner Zones 1 and 2 are enclosed by a 19-mile perimeter fence .
wall
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She too looks like a retired person, retired from the turbulence beyond the perimeter wall .
■ VERB
set
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Letters and numbers set at random around its perimeter and an upended wine glass in the centre.
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They set up a perimeter on the white sand, went swimming, dug in deep for the night.
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She set off round the perimeter of the vast doorway, looking for anything that resembled a control panel.
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The agents backed off, setting up an armed perimeter around the house.
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Several civilian employees at Cu Chi were later found dead in the barbed wire set out around the perimeter .
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We got on the ground and set up a perimeter .
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Late in the afternoon they set up a perimeter near the coast.
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After several hours, everything quieted down, and we set up a perimeter again.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a perimeter fence
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A secure perimeter fence should be at least two metres high.
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Security guards patrol the perimeter .
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the perimeter of the airfield
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Adjust the starting point so that you avoid a very narrow margin at the perimeter .
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But the perimeter was small and surrounded by forest.
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By the year 2001 the tracks will circle the perimeter of the short-term parking garage roof in the middle of the loop.
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The men ate in a large tent outside the perimeter of the fence.
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The road continues past the buildings and after ¾ mile the trail runs off through the trees to the forest perimeter .
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We had dug in that night on perimeter , and it started raining.
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When the nine pins were in place, Brown joined up the perimeter of the area they bounded.