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Examples
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The weather people are predicting at least another foot for the north-country.
Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010
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My tracks should still be obvious despite the warm-up in the north-country overnight.
Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010
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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
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Sometimes it can be a real struggle to get people in the north-country to talk.
Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010
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The lesson had, as the north-country expression has it, been "dinned into" the heads of the two girls.
The Devil's Bedpost 2010
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Life gets back to normal pretty fast in the north-country, even after three feet of snow.
Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010
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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
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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
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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
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Coe speaks her words, however, with a lilting English north-country accent (she was born near Birmingham) that remains with the listener like music.
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