NOUN | a bread basket | bread baskets | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Developed for agriculture, the Schoharie Valley was considered a bread basket of the colony because of the amount of wheat produced even during the American Revolutionary War.
- There seems to be more of a debate if Zimbabwe was the bread basket of Africa, as over a 55-year period Zimbabwe never topped a 10% share of maize on the continent.
- Herodotus described Herat as "the bread-basket of Central Asia".
- This technique makes use of small incendiary bombs (possibly delivered by a cluster bomb such as the Molotov bread basket).
- This reflects the history of Anglesey as the bread-basket of Wales.
- Each word was connected to the word before it in chain fashion, such as Peanut-Butter-Bread-Basket-etc.
- It is situated in the bread-basket agricultural district known as the "Gros-de-Vaud".
- It is suggested that the land dominated by the citadel of Gla served as the "bread basket" of the Mycenaean world.
- Mbeya also boasts as one of the regions that form the "bread basket" of Tanzania.
- The town lies in the heart of the "bread basket" of the country, and very near to the centre of South Africa.
- Ukraine is among the world's top agricultural producers and exporters and is often described as the "bread basket of Europe".
- Called "The Granary of India" or "The Bread Basket of India," Indian Punjab produces 1% of the world's rice, 2% of its wheat, and 2% of its cotton.
- Before independence in 1975, Angola was a bread-basket of southern Africa and a major exporter of bananas, coffee and sisal, but three decades of civil war (1975–2002) destroyed fertile countryside, left it littered with landmines and drove millions into the cities.
- The Connecticut River towns had thousands of acres of cultivated crop land known as the bread basket of New England, but they had to limit their plantings and work in large armed groups for self-protection.
- The legion was awarded the cognomen "Fortis" ("valiant") for the valiant defense of "Rome's Bread Basket".
- During the Swedish rule, this region was known as the "Swedish Bread Basket" because it supplied the larger part of the Swedish Kingdom with wheat.
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