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Examples

  • The weather people are predicting at least another foot for the north-country.

    Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010

  • My tracks should still be obvious despite the warm-up in the north-country overnight.

    Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010

  • Disk and DVD equipment is just starting to make it to the north-country on a widespread basis so a lot of us still use old technology.

    Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010

  • Sometimes it can be a real struggle to get people in the north-country to talk.

    Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010

  • The lesson had, as the north-country expression has it, been "dinned into" the heads of the two girls.

    The Devil's Bedpost 2010

  • Life gets back to normal pretty fast in the north-country, even after three feet of snow.

    Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010

  • I especially like the painting here which, though it's Perthshire, actually makes me think of the Canadian north-country that features prominently and memorably in John Buchan's Sick Heart River.

    Painting Scotland 2009

  • I'd feel comfortable taking it on tree-stand deer hunts, open-country elk and muley hunts, or north-country adventures in horrid weather conditions.

    Compound Bow 2007

  • I especially like the painting here which, though it's Perthshire, actually makes me think of the Canadian north-country that features prominently and memorably in John Buchan's Sick Heart River.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • Coe speaks her words, however, with a lilting English north-country accent (she was born near Birmingham) that remains with the listener like music.

    Drawing Political Fire 2008

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