Sentence examples for were country from inspiring English sources

'were country' is not correct or usable in written English.
Instead, you may use the phrase 'were a country' to indicate that something has the same characteristics as an independent nation or state. For example, you could say "The students of this school were a country in and of themselves, bound together by their shared sense of pride and accomplishment."

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were country

noun

An area of land; a district, region.

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First in line were country "landlords".

We weren't poor, but we were country.

Martin McCauley and Michael Tighe were country boys.

A surprising number were country schoolteachers, off for the summer.

"We were country people: we didn't even have a telephone".

And there were country lanes in Kingston for the aspirant cyclist to explore.

Where they both came from were country churches in the piney woods of northwest Florida.

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Many of the reasons for what happened were country-specific.

Along these lines, the results of this study were country-specific which might raise a concern about generalizing the findings to other countries.

For instance, in the TIMSS 2011, six of the 11 home resources were country-specific whereas five were common to all participating countries.

The trajectories of the sex ratio with age were country-specific.

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