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Using Hillbrow

  • In the example corpus, hillbrow often appears in combinations such as: in hillbrow, the hillbrow.

Context around Hillbrow

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

berea 1× jeppe 1×

Often after:

cape 1× police 1× area 1× rosebank 1×

Sentence patterns with Hillbrow

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

africa the hillbrow area was 1× cleveland jeppe hillbrow rosebank parkview 1× for the hillbrow police station 1× happening in hillbrow 1× hillbrow has a 1× in hillbrow in the 1× including berea hillbrow and yeoville 1× located in hillbrow over r40 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

at diamond exchange 1× drug policy activist 1× fight with insight 1× hillbrow has a 1× in hillbrow in 1× inner city npo 1×

Common sentence endings:

and social solidarity 1× do push ups 1× for south africans 1× happening in hillbrow 1× hillbrow and yeoville 1× injecting drug users 1×

Words around Hillbrow

Just before it in the word index:

hillborg 2 hillbilly 56 hillbillies 21 hillary 1.057 hillards 2 hillard 12

Just after it in the word index:

hillcats 3 hillclimb 6 hillclimbing 3 hillcrest 97 hilldale 3 hille 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aab 14 aamer 14 aave 14 abadan 14 abdelmadjid 14 abdulkarim 14

Corpus analysis for Hillbrow

  • In this selection, "hillbrow" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, berea, jeppe, cape, police and area stand out and add context to how "hillbrow" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include africa the hillbrow area was and cleveland jeppe hillbrow rosebank parkview. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "hillbrow" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with hillbrow

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Hillbrow has a needle exchange programme for injecting drug users. (10 words)

Drug policy activist Shaun Shelly said he was concerned about what’s happening in Hillbrow. (15 words)

The cluster is made up of seven police stations, namely Cleveland, Jeppe, Hillbrow, Rosebank, Parkview, Norwood and Yeoville. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

Fight with Insight, a free gym, is ahome from home for hundreds of young men and women from Hillbrow who learn boxing, train physically on the streets of Joburg but also learn and practice shared values of citizenship and social solidarity. (41 words)

Inner city NPO Mould Empower Serve (MES), operates in Hillbrow, Cape Town, Kempton Park and Port Elizabeth, and noted in a statement it had been through many flu seasons with homeless communities before, but has made some changes. (38 words)

The route was supposed to take the marchers through Hillbrow but it was changed on the morning of the march because police said they had received intelligence that it was not safe. (32 words)

Example sentences (11)

Fight with Insight, a free gym, is ahome from home for hundreds of young men and women from Hillbrow who learn boxing, train physically on the streets of Joburg but also learn and practice shared values of citizenship and social solidarity.

In Hillbrow in the Johannesburg inner city, police sjambokked people for allegedly defying lockdown rules, while in Soweto, soldiers have forced people to do push-ups.

Inner city NPO Mould Empower Serve (MES), operates in Hillbrow, Cape Town, Kempton Park and Port Elizabeth, and noted in a statement it had been through many flu seasons with homeless communities before, but has made some changes.

The academy, now in its 11th year, serves scores of boys between grades 10 to 12 attending schools in impoverished areas including Berea, Hillbrow and Yeoville.

According to the spokesperson for the Hillbrow Police Station Sergeant Mduduzi Zondo, raids still continue in their precinct to ensure that perpetrators face the full might of the law.

At Diamond Exchange, a shop located in Hillbrow, over R40 000 worth of NWJ’s stolen jewellery was recovered.

Naturally, the bad guys also moved in. In 1996, when I went to South Africa, the Hillbrow area was a no-go area for South Africans.

The route was supposed to take the marchers through Hillbrow but it was changed on the morning of the march because police said they had received intelligence that it was not safe.

Drug policy activist Shaun Shelly said he was concerned about what’s happening in Hillbrow.

Hillbrow has a needle exchange programme for injecting drug users.

The cluster is made up of seven police stations, namely Cleveland, Jeppe, Hillbrow, Rosebank, Parkview, Norwood and Yeoville.

Common combinations with hillbrow

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

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