noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
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The Dovrefjell is a high plateau south of Trondheim.
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The hills begin to plane out into a high plateau , and the road widens.
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Between these two ranges a large structural basin was created which now forms the high plateau of the Altiplano.
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We inched up over the ridge and began our descent on to the high , tree-stippled plateau of far western Chihuahua.
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From Alta, which is a small fishing village, our chosen route took us over the high plateau towards Varanger Fiord.
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A poet in retirement, 1800-7 During these years we are still on the high plateau of Wordsworth's poetic achievement.
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At Beckenried is an aerial railway to the Klewenalp, a winter sports and summer resort on the high plateau .
■ VERB
reach
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The climb slowly eases off as you reach the summit plateau .
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We seemed to drift into tranquility once we reached the long plateau stretch on the high road to Taos.
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This f is used only to detect when the algorithm has reached a summit or plateau .
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Then teammate Joel Zide of Northridge quickened the pace to reach the five-fish plateau first.
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They reached the plateau where Rosie's villa stood in a row of similar ones.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alkaline basalts record the passage of the plateau over a hotspot during the Eocene.
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The plateau was a far cry from the workaday cottages by the harbour.
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The fifteenth, seemingly relatively tame at 167 yards, had a plateau green that sloped from right to left.
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The king's highway, an important trade route, ran down the eastern plateau .
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Then teammate Joel Zide of Northridge quickened the pace to reach the five-fish plateau first.
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They were tired and ill and they could not walk up to the plateau .
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This place, the plateau , was where we'd spend most of our time on Back Hill.
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We inched up over the ridge and began our descent on to the high, tree-stippled plateau of far western Chihuahua.