noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Helmand Province
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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This year it was the waylaying of a southbound train at a station in central Anhui province by a local gang.
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But the densely populated central provinces present a very different picture.
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Police have arrested 80 people during the unrest in the Central Kalimantan province .
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For neo-populists, it is the social structure in these central provinces that is crucial.
eastern
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Julian's main impact was confined to the Eastern provinces .
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After holing up for the winter of 2512 the horde descended into the eastern provinces of the Empire.
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But no one has mentioned what's been going on in our eastern provinces or in Katanga in the south.
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Almost a thousand buildings are represented, mainly from the city of Rome and from eastern provinces of the Roman empire.
northern
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A utilitarian concrete block clogged with book kiosks and leftist murals, it draws its 17,000 students from six northern provinces .
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Soldiers on both sides are also still fighting in the northern province of Takhar.
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Like the provincial nobility of the northern provinces , this was a working nobility.
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Both dealers took the night train to a Northern province , the home town of one of them.
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Having lost his northern provinces , he does not hide his ambition to re-establish his gruesome tyranny over them.
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He said that it needed strengthening in the northern province .
other
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Prospecting continued in other provinces , though most intensely in Connaught and Ulster.
southern
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Lemba is in the southern province of Katanga.
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The blast last week in remote Fanglin village, deep in the southern province of Jiangxi, was massive.
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Mujaheddin forces also attacked Qalat, the capital of the southern province of Zabul.
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The absence of reference to a division of the southern province , therefore, is not altogether surprising.
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Kabila, from the secessionist southern province of Katanga, studied in Paris and Belgrade before returning home in 1963.
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Why had he been so determined to create a second see of archiepiscopal rank in the southern province in the first place?
western
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New policies on developing the backward western provinces and improving health, education and social welfare are stressed.
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It reported in mid-1861, but suggested only that the peasantry of the western provinces fulfil their obligations in cash rather than labour.
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I had just come in from one of the western provinces , where I'd worked in a bush surgery.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By this time, all provinces except Zambezia had at least 40 percent female enrolment.
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For neo-populists, it is the social structure in these central provinces that is crucial.
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He visited the other dioceses of his province , including a tour of several days to the Isle of Man.
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Most tellingly, Labour's vote was well down on its 1990 performance in the provinces.
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Printers, modems and speakers were considered necessities, but scanners were the province of professional artists with money to burn.
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The separatist movement began in the mid-1970s after the province was denied additional natural gas revenue.
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Together with the political background in the province , this smallness of scale has complicated discussions of local government reorganisation.
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When Ottawa's programme expired in April, pressure mounted on the provinces to provide assistance.