Sentence examples for artificial land from inspiring English sources
In early 2014 China began intensively building up artificial land on certain reefs and atolls.
Their advocacy of such devices as artificial land platforms above cities, which grew out of a desire for economy of land use, revolutionized architectural thinking.
"China is building artificial land by pumping sand on to live coral reefs – some of them submerged – and paving over them with concrete.
Creating so much artificial land required enormous shipments of quarried stone, from across the Emirates, as well as hundreds of millions of tons of sand, which foreign contractors dredged from the floor of the Gulf and heaped into piles.
Admiral Harry Harris Jr told a naval security conference in Australia that "China is building artificial land by pumping sand on to live coral reefs — some of them submerged — and paving over them with concrete.
Over 30 million tonnes of silt was dredged to make this artificial land mass, which extends 400m beyond the original shoreline, a process that saw the largest migration of animals in Europe – with 320,000 newts, water voles and adders relocated to a new nature reserve nearby.
It was not until 1894 that Stroma gained its first artificial landing point, a pier built from Portland cement near Nethertown at a cost of £800.
Here, to identify common features of LULCC in Western Mediterranean urban regions, we investigated two main features: direct changes due to urbanization and indirect changes affecting non-artificial land uses.
The NBS solution for wetland bioremediation is proposed through a combination of ecosystem value provided by nature-based or artificial arable land.
"Almost all the many perverse behaviours in the UK housing market stem from the artificial shortage of land for development in this country" Lyons said.
Late in 2014, the Lyons Housing Commission – headed by the former BBC Trust chair, Sir Michael Lyons – warned that an artificial scarcity of land is distorting the housing market, limiting building and "incentivising the acquisition of land".
