polytunnel
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But this year, instead, the 26-year-old is in a polytunnel in north Nottinghamshire picking strawberries.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2022
The Scottish company is developing its own method to make the fuel from non-recyclable, or least recycled, plastics such as polystyrene and types of plastics used in making polytunnel sheets and toys.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2021
Sorting out the food problem may also take time, but within several months someone might have been able to knock up a polytunnel to grow a couple of undersized cabbages in the smectite clay.
From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2015
In March, after nine months of hydration, the fuselage was taken out of the polytunnel for the first time and deep cleaned.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2014
A strawberry ripened beneath the winter sun of Morocco can have a smaller carbon footprint than one raised in a polytunnel at the height of a so-called British summer.
From The Guardian • May 25, 2013
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