• Flanders, in contrast, is a land of flat country and few hills.
• The land is flat, and perhaps it's my imagination, but it appears stunted and less fertile than the hills and mountains to the north east.
• Most of the land is flat, barren tundra where only the top few inches of the frozen earth thaw out during the summer months.

• Most cat anglers in my experience seem to be converted carp anglers, used to fishing flat calm waters where the fish are as likely to take a boilie as a dead or livebait.
• But now that the sun was fully out, he could see beyond the breakers, way beyond the waves to the flat water at the back.

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• The older parts of the university are all built of the same plain light brown brick rising in columns, with long windows between them, and simple flat roofs.
• The city has rebuilt the flat roofs of about 2,500 houses since 2000.
• A leaking roof can lead to damage on ceilings and walls, so it is important to replace loose or cracked slates, and get damaged material on flat roofs repaired.

• In surviving examples, the handle assumes a broad flat circular shape so that the lid could be turned over and function as a bowl or plate for the food held in the container.
• Outside the grand clubhouse, you almost expect chaps to be wandering around in plus-fours and flat caps.
• The tube has a flat, wide cap and is meant to be stored upright.

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• While you can get away with flat shoes during summer, opt for a slight heel for the colder months.
• Swap your sensible flat shoes for heels, add a glittery scarf and statement jewellery.

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• I came on and they were flat and tired and stressy.
• He is normally fired up and fluent, but this time he was flat and unable to find anything fresh to say about yet another defeat.
• At the start of the year in Adelaide and Auckland he was flat at the beginning of every match and could not get himself fired up.

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• The shop's optimism is set against other major retailers' expectations for flat trading next year.
• Consumer spending may not look too resilient, given the flat performance of retail sales in October.
• The company has been in a prolonged slump, with flat sales in the United States and a stock price to match.

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• His style is stark and angular, relying heavily on the use of flat colour and silhouettes.
• Two other monitors off to one side emit changing flat colours from their screens, and a dull but insistent techno-type soundtrack.
• The textile is placed awkwardly on top of the table, creating areas of strong, flat colour and signalling Matisse's future as a painter.

• This photograph was flat, with very little contrast and some noticeable scratches, dust spots, pen marks and other discolorations.
• I have some flat negatives that really need a tonal boost.

• He soon trades it for a mountain bike with a flat tyre and a modest handful of small gold coins.
• He was picked up because he was driving with a flat tyre.

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• Bennett ends up having to turn his music down, recharge her van's flat battery, and become her reluctant carer.
• Have you noticed for example, friends and workmates asking you for their best friend's phone number because their mobile battery is flat?

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• When I reached the desk, I got blank faces and flat refusals.
• And there does seem to be a pretty flat contradiction between those two points.
• As an observer, I can testify that the comments made by these powerful and successful people were in flat contradiction to the caricature.

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• Without moving up or down the fingerboard more than one fret, you should be able to pick out each successive sharp or flat key and play that Major scale.

• We played the Schubert B flat Trio and the Tchaikovsky.
• For example, the coda of the great Schubert B flat sonata was played at a breakneck pace and was technically perfect.
• The concert opened with a riveting account of Haydn's late E flat Sonata.

• But she captured me, pulling me close, her palms flat against my back.
• Hold your thighs flat against the padded surface and slowly begin to curl your lower legs up as far as possible.
• Buffy stood still looking straight at the wall, palms flat against it.

• Cover your sand form with sheets of wet newspaper to keep the mud walls from sticking to the sand form, smoothing the sheets flat.
• He takes a slow deep breath, and smoothes flat a piece of paper.
• I am also a vegetarian and attempt to relocate spiders rather than squashing them flat.

• Bookshops this Christmas are piled high with short novelty volumes knocked off by their authors in a couple of hours flat.
• Soon I could knock off a set in about 20 minutes flat, including cleaning up.
• It shot into the charts at number 10, unheard of in those days, but stalled well short of the expected number 1 slot and vanished from the charts in six weeks flat.

• They were scattered over a mile area and unreachable because of water channels in the flats.
• This encourages clam spat to settle out in areas of the flats currently devoid of clam stocks.
• Many surface flows, supplied mainly from leaks in the ocean entry tubes, are also observed in the coastal flats near the ocean.

• I finally reached the conclusion that the easiest way to get broccoli and cabbage seedlings started was to grow them in a small flat.
• Most plants can be set slightly deeper than they were growing in the germination flat.

• For years, the ballerina flat was the shoe of choice to wear with cropped pants.
• Try a ballerina flat, or an open mule with a smartly shaped heel.
• A moccasin is the must-have shoe in a stylish high-heel or casual flat.