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Discover Ludwig'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.
Exact(56)
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.
Similar(4)
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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