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What kind of compound nouns are these?

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Latest post Sat, Jan 3 2009 2:36 PM by Mister Micawber. 1 replies.
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Baka Saru  +  629469 Sat, 03 Jan 09 09:13 AM
There are compound nouns with the structure of Noun-Noun in single like "information desk" or "train station". However there are also nouns like "sports car" or "telecommunications service". Are there any nouns as such? I can't find any more words other than these two T_T. Please help!
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Mister Micawber  +  629628 Sat, 03 Jan 09 02:36 PM
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They are uncommon, I agree.  They seem to appear when the plurality of the noun is strongly conceived.

A french fries box
A cattle ranch
etc
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