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Meanings of low-lying land in English
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Usage of low-lying land in English
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From around 1300, windmills were developed to pump water off low-lying land.
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A plan to build hundreds of houses in low-lying land in Christchurch has been approved.
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Advocates say the proposal plays to Nicaragua's natural strengths, which include low-lying land and the lake.
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Flooding and extreme weather events linked to climate change threaten disasters in the future in this low-lying land.
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The river had surged over its banks near the plant and filled in low-lying land near the Cooper plant.
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Many of these displaced people live on low-lying land next to rivers that has been cleared by building dykes.
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The low-lying land in The Netherlands (Netherlands literally means low-lying land) requires the country to be heavily flood-proofed.
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In the late summer it is used for the transit of the hay which is grown on the low-lying land.
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Over half of Africa's 37 biggest cities, each home to more than one million residents, are built on low-lying land.
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Purmerend is half an hour north of Amsterdam in the polders, the low-lying land reclaimed from water that dominates northern Holland.
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Many of the people displaced by the floods live on low-lying land next to rivers that has been cleared by building dykes.
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The low-lying land also flooded in July, affecting at least 39,000 people, most of them recently returned refugees.
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At the height of the gale, Inuit families camped on low-lying land along the Arctic coast had to be airlifted out by helicopter.
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Below him he saw a valley opening out into a sweep of low-lying land, watered by many lochs, and bounded by heather hills.
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North Carolina is among the state's most vulnerable to sea level rise with its long coastline and thousands of square miles of low-lying land.
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It said: "There may be some flooding of low-lying land and roads, some disruption to travel and possibly flooding to individual properties."