Definitions
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- adverb to, toward, or in the northwest
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Examples
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Earlier in November widespread pollution problems from Guy Fawkes fireworks across the north-west of the UK were followed by a flow of polluted air from Europe.
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But the best paintings here are meticulously constructed, adapting the atmospheric painterliness of the French impressionists to the dank industrial terraces of north-west England.
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Dmitry Dmitriyenko, governor of the Murmansk region in Russia's north-west where 33 of the men come from, urged friends and families not to lose hope, but admitted the chance of the men surviving in the 1C 33.8F water is approaching zero.
Search continues for missing men after Russian oil rig capsizes 2011
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The shop, which has links with many north-west London authors, organised the Queen's Park book festival this June, in partnership with the local residents association.
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The house where where a blaze killed six people in north-west London, England.
House fire kills mother and five children in north-west London 2011
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The north-west London branch of the Ramblers Association has dispatched legal letters demanding the school allow walkers access to the path.
Harrow school rows with walkers over right to ramble in its grounds 2011
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Sukanya settled in Willesden Green, north-west London.
Anoushka Shankar: A deep connection with my father | Nick Duerden 2011
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Smoke from Guy Fawkes' events caused greatest problems in north-west England where air pollution levels reached very high in Stoke and Salford and high in Warrington.
Pollutionwatch: Fireworks are fun but are they worth the show? 2011
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Currently the team's findings do not extend too far beyond the university in the north-west.
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What was the Daily Mail trying to do, for instance, when it castigated the Tricycle Theatre in north-west London for writing to prison inmates seeking their experiences for a piece of political theatre about the summer riots?
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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