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muriel_volestrangler

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1. How often is anywhere "a country of small contrasts"? Pretty much never

Reply to ellisonz (Original post)

Fri Jan 20, 2012, 01:14 PM

Jan 2012

Google results:
"Country of few contrasts" : 0
"Country of small contrasts" : 0
"Land of small contrasts" : 0
"Land of few contrasts" : 5 (3 after eliminating dupes - step forward, Ohio, Antarctica, and Somalia)
"Country of great contrasts": 53,300 ( https://www.google.com/search?q=%22country+of+great+contrasts%22 )
"Land of great contrasts": 139,000 ( https://www.google.com/search?q=%22land+of+great+contrasts%22 )
"Country of many contrasts": 76,500 ( https://www.google.com/search?q=%22country+of+many+contrasts%22 )
"Land of many contrasts": 88,200 ( https://www.google.com/search?q=%22land+of+many+contrasts%22 )

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