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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fictionalised countryside comes back to brighten the dark heart of the urban sprawl .
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If you want the definition of urban sprawl , look at one-acre or three-acre lots.
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It negates home-field advantage for home-grown retailers and contributes to urban sprawl .
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Nor are the results of urban sprawl always aesthetic.
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Ribbon development, urban sprawl and scattered housing were all brought under reasonable control.
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These powers were permissive, and in most of Britain urban sprawl and ribbon development continued more or less unabated.
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They soon left the urban sprawl of roundabouts, sodium streetlights and Wimpey homes and Dexter began to speed along country lanes.
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This factor had considerable importance in engendering urban sprawl .