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Example sentences for "considerable area"

  • A considerable area on the west side of the ruin is covered with loosely scattered stones, affording no suggestions of a ground plan.

  • The topography about this point, which receives the drainage of a considerable area of the mesa top, would fit it especially for the establishment of a reservoir.

  • The perpetuation and therefore the very existence of each species of flowering plant depend upon its seeds being preserved from destruction and more or less effectually dispersed over a considerable area.

  • Here we have a kind of imitation, which is very common in a less developed form, carried to extreme perfection, with the result that the species is very abundant over a considerable area of country.

  • In central Russia there is a considerable area in which the glacial conditions were, in one respect, similar to those in the northern part of the Mississippi Valley in the United States.

  • Everywhere, over a considerable area, the plains are clothed with a meagre vegetation, or alternate with wide morasses, lakes, and brooks.

  • Schist prevails over a considerable area, and is prolonged to the very extremity of the peninsula.

  • They occupy a considerable area of a vast desolate plain, where a few lean sheep crop an insufficient food from the scanty herbage, and whose sole product is turf.

  • Altogether there are four or five examples, distributed over a considerable area.

  • The site, which is an excellent one, but rather difficult of access, overlooks the bottom land at the junction of the canyons and a long strip on the opposite side, together with a considerable area above.

  • There is a high slope of talus here, the top of which is flat and of considerable area.

  • In other words, it would follow that the shores, and a considerable area of the former bed of the Baltic and North Sea, had been uplifted vertically to that amount, and converted into land in the course of the last 5000 years.

  • The ulcers and sinuses persist indefinitely, or they heal and then break out again; sometimes the skin becomes infected, and a condition like lupus spreads over a considerable area.

  • A considerable area of the anterior part of the nasal septum is also visible by anterior rhinoscopy, and between it and the middle turbinal is a narrow chink--the olfactory sulcus.

  • The lip is swollen and everted, and there is a considerable area of induration around.

  • Pus rapidly forms under the periosteum, and a considerable area of bone may undergo necrosis.

  • A short distance above Severn lake, according to Mr. Low, there is a considerable area of country “almost flat, with good timber and soil.

  • Mr. Mair states that southeast of Fort St. John there is a considerable area known as Pouce Coupé prairie, which was well spoken of.

  • These ridges, however, often resemble detached portions of a higher plateau, and spread widely enough to occupy in the aggregate a considerable area, of which the soil is not so uniform in character as elsewhere.

  • Between this lake and Severn lake there is a considerable area supporting a growth of black and white spruce, tamarack, poplar and birch, slightly smaller than those seen around the lakes.

  • The town covers a considerable area; the detached white houses of its suburbs are surrounded by trees and flowering shrubs.

  • Strathbogie, the fifth district, occupying a considerable area south of the Deveron, mostly consists of hills, moors and mosses.

  • These divisions are folded on highly inclined or vertical axes trending north-east and south-west, and hence the same zones are repeated over a considerable area.

  • Between Sebenico and Ortona a well-marked depression occurs, a considerable area of which exceeds 100 fathoms in depth.

  • As a rule it covers a considerable area, with radiating branches at the edges; but when growing on slender twigs or the stems of water-plants it forms narrow, closely compressed masses.

  • I have not found this race except in Calcutta, in the ponds of which it grows on bricks or, very commonly, on the stems of bulrushes, often covering a considerable area.

  • Sponge forming masses of considerable area, but never of more than moderate depth or thickness.

  • The sponge is of a brownish colour and forms flat masses of little thickness but of considerable area on sticks and on the stems of water-plants.

  • These bluffs are washed by the Verde during high water, though there is evidence that up to a recent time there was a considerable area of bottom land between the river and the foot of the bluff.

  • The illustration shows, in the middle distance, a considerable area of bottom land which the site overlooks.

  • The village is located close to the edge of the bluff, as shown in the plan, and has an outlook over a considerable area of bottom land adjoining the bluff on the east.

  • In these, although there may be a considerable area of water, there is not apt to be much sailing room; it is therefore necessary to mark off the navigable channels.

  • A considerable area of the mountain-slopes affords grazing.

  • The coal-mines and iron-making plants of the southern Appalachians have a considerable area.

  • First of all there must be one or more dams which contain the water supply for the cattle, and which are usually constituted so as to drain a considerable area of watershed.

  • The rocks are mainly Triassic, but the coal measures prevail over a considerable area.

  • The Coal measures extend over a considerable area, and Silurian limestones and shales occur about Sedgley and Dudley.


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