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  • However, the Technical University of Delft has a library that's a sort of modern architecture grass-roofed four-story gently-sloping hill.

    Ski Delft 2006

  • However, the Technical University of Delft has a library that's a sort of modern architecture grass-roofed four-story gently-sloping hill.

    Archive 2006-03-01 2006

  • The 16 features that will be required for new houses to meet the Lifetime Homes standard by 2013 and all social housing by 2011 will include having a ground-floor toilet, a wider stairway that could be adapted to take a stair-lift, and a level or gently-sloping approach to the front door.

    Sustainability - new thought Valleys Mam 2008

  • Alfalfa, small grain, and corn are grown for silage on arable, gently-sloping terraces and valley floors.

    Ecoregions of Colorado (EPA) 2008

  • The beds of lava rise in successive gently-sloping plains, towards the interior, whence the deluges of melted stone have originally proceeded.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • The beds of lava rise in successive gently-sloping plains, towards the interior, whence the deluges of melted stone have originally proceeded.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • The Avon, which winds through the park, makes a bend just at the foot of a gently-sloping bank, which sweeps down from the rear of the house.

    The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

  • All those short and gently-sloping meadows ended in piles of jumbled rock at the base of rocky slopes that would have taxed a mountain sheep.

    The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991

  • The summit was hidden in the clouds, and much of the gently-sloping face turned towards them was covered with snow.

    2061 Odyssey Three Clarke, Arthur C. 1987

  • It hurtled into the air and sailed for a hundred feet across the gently-sloping snow-covered grass, came smashing down in a thick hedgerow of bushes -- and kept going.

    Code Three Rick Raphael 1956

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