Although not gregarious at this period, the numbers of nests found scattered over a small area, suggests at least a social tendency.
As the bird is sometimes gregarious several nests may often be found within a small area--huge floating rafts moored to the reeds, or built up from the bottom of the shallow water.
Many nests are made within a small area, sometimes so close together as to render walking amongst them without treading on their contents a difficult matter.
Numbers of nests may be found within a small area of suitable ground, and certain spots appear to be visited annually for breeding purposes, in some cases even after the district, by reclamation, has lost its original marshy character.
In islands there are many cases of undoubted restriction of species to a small area, but these involve a different question from the range of species on continents where there is no apparent obstacle to their wider extension.
These two fenestrae appear early, but whether they are formed by an absorption of the cartilage, or by the nonchondrification of a small area, is not certainly known.
The chorion, except for a small area at the two poles and opposite the os uteri, is nearly uniformly covered with villi, which are more numerous than in fig.
The vesicle, however formed, soon acquires a covering of pigment, except for a small area of its outer wall, where the lens becomes formed as a small body projecting into the lumen of the vesicle.
After the formation of the appendages a fusion takes place between the amnion and serous envelope over a small area close to the head of the embryo.
The cells of the blastoderm are at first uniform, but in Astacus, Eupagurus, and most Decapoda, soon become more columnar for a small area, and form a circular patch.
The somites, though at first confined to a small area on the ventral side, gradually extend so as to meet their fellows above and below and form complete rings (fig.
In the Amphipods the epiblast cells remain attached for a small area on the dorsal surface to the first larval skin, when this is formed.
H only; hence the surfaces will soon compress, on account of all the strain of the key falling on a small area, and the key will get loose.
Their disadvantages are that they grip but a small area of the belt, namely, that portion beneath the rivet head and washer surface; hence, when rivets are used the joint should always be cemented also.
Proportionate distribution of hue, value, and chroma in surface enrichment calls for a small area, high in chroma, and contrasting in value to the rest of the surface but harmonizing with it.
Such treatment has proved satisfactory because the eye can readily and immediately observe and comprehend or assimilate an enrichment upon a small area.
Proportionate distribution of hue, value, and chroma in surface enrichment calls for a small area, high in chroma, and contrasting in value to the rest of the surface, but harmonizing with it.
Proportionate distribution of hue, value, and chroma in surface enrichment calls for a small area high in chroma and contrasting in value to the rest of the surface, but harmonizing with it.
The plants sometimes occur singly, or a few together, but often quite large numbers of them appear in a small area.
As the plant becomes mature the edge is free from the wood for some distance, only being attached over a small area.
The plants are scattered or somewhat clustered, sometimes occurring singly, and again many covering a small area of ground.
The season was rainy, and the plants appeared each day during quite a long period, sometimes large numbers of them covering a small area, but they were not clustered nor cespitose.
Where a small area is to be grown, the transplanting process is the ideal method, but for large acreages and where labor is difficult to obtain, this would not be practical.
Where only a small area of sweet potatoes is to be grown for home use, the necessary plants can generally be secured from some one who makes a business of growing them.
The common method of producing sets is to plant a large quantity of seed on a small area of rather rich land and thus procure a great number of bulbs that are undersized, owing to crowding and lack of plant food.
Many persons who are engaged in other lines of work follow the practice of growing a small area of bunching onions as a side issue.
Its application is advisable for a small area only--not more than four square inches--as absorption is possible.
It is commonly limited to a small area, and is usually symptomatic of functional or organic nervous disease.
In some instances it extends after birth, reaches a certain size and then remains stationary; occasionally, when involving a small area, it undergoes involution and disappears.
A small area (8000 square miles) of abyssal hills lies between the northwest arm of the Sohm Abyssal Plain and the northern edge of the Hatteras Abyssal Plain.
Bermuda a small area of abyssal hills lies between the continental rise on the northwest, the Bermuda Rise on the southeast, the Sohm Abyssal Plain on the northeast, and the Hatteras Abyssal Plain on the southwest.
However, this filling is limited to a small area south of the Azores.
In this way a small area of the surface of the earth is converted into a hygroscope, and these test surfaces tell us whether the ground is cooled to the dew-point or not.
A small area of soil was spread over a shallow pan, and after being weighed was exposed at the place where the soil had been taken out, to see if bare soil as well as grass lost weight during dewy nights.
Another method of testing this point was employed, which consisted in weighing a small area of the exposed surface of the ground, as it was evident that if the soil gave off vapor during a dewy night, it must lose weight.
As is usually the case, when a small area of distribution only was affected, sensation was rapidly regained from vicarious sources, even when section had been complete.
In the Tweedie the top of the bullet is sawn off in such a manner as to flatten the tip and widen the surface of direct impact, and to expose the leaden core over a small area.
The best way to proceed would be to try a small area of all the nitrogen gathering plants of which you can get the seed easily, and determine by your own observation which makes the best growth under your conditions.
The best way to satisfy yourself of its effect would be to try a small area, marked so as you could note its behavior as compared with the rest of the field.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small area" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
