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tiny island

collocation in English

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tiny
adjective
uk /ˈtaɪ.ni/ us /ˈtaɪ.ni/
extremely ...
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island
noun[C]
uk /ˈaɪ.lənd/ us /ˈaɪ.lənd/
a piece of land completely surrounded ...
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Examples of tiny island


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After all, this is a tinyisland.
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We are talking about a tinyisland.
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After all, ours is only a tinyisland.
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It is a tinyisland: 47 square miles, mostly of volcanic rock.
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We have one outstanding disadvantage in modern war—compression—squashed into one tinyisland.
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These people live in a small enclosure and it is like being on a tinyisland.
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It is going to be no use whatever to leave anyone in this tinyisland.
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They seek a refuge on our tinyisland, which is already overcrowded.
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In a tinyisland like ours no place is safer than any other.
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Constant lake storms bombarded the tinyisland.
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The club had the option of going elsewhere; it refused it, and insisted upon going to that tinyisland.
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This is only a tinyisland, but its soil, climate and other conditions vary considerably from county to county.
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They are the two pluses which go to make up our standard of living in this tinyisland.
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That level of production must impose problems on a tinyisland with a population of over 50 million.
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All those things need to be done, but we must bear in mind that we are on a tinyisland.
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Without the helicopter service to ferry visitors to and from the mainland, the economy of this tinyisland will be devastated.
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In this tinyisland of ours, whatever we do and wherever we go in search of land we are faced with this problem.
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We are a tinyisland and if we cannot live together as brothers and sisters, there is little hope for us.
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It was he who had the villa built on this tinyisland.
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Historically, the tinyisland has supported a high-density population of a thousand or so.
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Malapascua is a tinyisland, only about long and wide, and has eight hamlets.
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Shaped roughly like a long, thin triangle, the tinyisland is approximately two miles long.
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This conservation technique ensures the tinyisland is not overrun by the horses.
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This country, a tinyisland with a population of over 50 millions, must no longer regard itself as the centre about which revolve dominions and colonies.
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One was told frequently in the past that we were such a tinyisland, so overcrowded, that we had to be most careful whom we took in.
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