the foothills

English translation: in the foothills

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English term or phrase:the foothills
Selected answer:in the foothills
Entered by: Bashiqa

09:47 Jul 13, 2010
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Science - Science (general)
English term or phrase: the foothills
in or at, e.g. at the Alpine foothills or in the Alpine foothills??
species occur in or at the A. foothills?
Evonymus (Ewa Kazmierczak)
Poland
Local time: 13:41
in the foothills
Explanation:
OR at the foot of the hill
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Bashiqa
France
Local time: 13:41
Grading comment
thank you very much for your help :)
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4 +12in the foothills
Bashiqa


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in the foothills


Explanation:
OR at the foot of the hill

Bashiqa
France
Local time: 13:41
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Grading comment
thank you very much for your help :)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Claire Cox
1 min
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agree  Jenni Lukac (X)
7 mins
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agree  Suzan Hamer
13 mins
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agree  kmtext
19 mins
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agree  Carolyn Gille
31 mins
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agree  Tom Fudge: 14.600.000 results for 'at the foothills' on Google, but 'in the foothills' definately sounds better to me.
39 mins
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agree  Alison Sabedoria (X): Definitely "in" here.
2 hrs
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agree  Anna Herbst: "In the foothills" is the only option if I am marking the paper...
3 hrs
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agree  Rolf Keiser
4 hrs
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agree  airmailrpl: "In the foothills" is the only option
4 hrs
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agree  Demi Ebrite
6 hrs
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agree  Phong Le
19 hrs
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