noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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town
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They work in the central and usually wealthy areas; people in the shanty towns do without.
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This was answered inpart by a number of small-scale entrepreneurs operating in the shanty towns .
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Adelaida Parra coordinates seven literacy groups each week spending long hours travelling by bus between the distant shanty towns .
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Last week five graves under unmarked crosses were unearthed on the shanty town outskirts of Lima.
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Often referred to as shanty towns , these make-shift settlements now house one-third to one-half of the population of many cities.
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Migrant families have brought the tradition with them to the urban shanty towns .
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The inhabitants of the shanty towns have frequently achieved stability and social organisation through the establishment of personal networks and voluntary associations.
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Up in the shanty towns subversion ruled.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Adelaida Parra coordinates seven literacy groups each week spending long hours travelling by bus between the distant shanty towns.
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He had visited shanty settlements known as fa las owing to their resemblance, at a distance, to honeycombs.
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Migrant families have brought the tradition with them to the urban shanty towns.
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On the far side of the pond the shanties started, the lowest-lying cluster surrounded by water, flooded.
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The gang warfare ripping through the shanties is fuelled by what has replaced politics after Aristide: prostitution, drugs and ritual.
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The inhabitants of the shanty towns have frequently achieved stability and social organisation through the establishment of personal networks and voluntary associations.
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This was answered inpart by a number of small-scale entrepreneurs operating in the shanty towns.