East or eastern; north or northern?
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northern
Farmers in this area generally carry out an intensive, highinput, high-tech management system on more productive farms compared to their northern counterparts.
The heaviest usage was in the northern and western regions of the subcontinent with much lower levels in the extreme south.
Nor, therefore, do the northern regions carry a large number of parliamentary seats.
However, these are identical to the equations treating the northern case.
Large parts of the northern churchyard were destroyed in order to make space for the basements of the new building.
Participants reported that health determinants are followed-up and monitored in fewer than 20% of recent northern project assessments.
Economic nationalism, on the other hand, had a vigorous, powerful clientele in northern industrialism.
He alone volunteered to travel on all six northern exploration expeditions over the next four years.
In other words, it was fully compatible with the main currents of social thought and ideology in northern society as a whole.
Again, northern chant editions tend to preserve more of the formulaic structures than do their southern counterparts.
In the near past the northern polar region/southern polar region has been warmer/colder than at present, respectively.
More northern areas retained the original monophthong, while in the south it became a diphthong.
The granite occupies the northern parts, whereas in the south the massif is composed of gabbro in the west and leucogabbro in the east.
In the directly occupied northern zone maintaining sovereignty in policing matters took on a different and much more negative form.
In the northern hemisphere they are used for ration balancing to formulate best-cost diets.
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