Sentence examples for declining land from inspiring English sources

The net income included pretax write-downs of $288.1 million, or $1.06 a share, that Toll Brothers attributed to declining land values and exposure to joint ventures.

Toll Brothers, which has operations in 22 states, said yesterday that it expected to take a write-down of $250 million to $450 million because of declining land values when it reports results for the quarter that ended Oct. 31.

In the fractious hubbub of calculation, the spoiled Gordon clan learns of inheritance taxes, legal fees, declining land values, and debts; their million-dollar bonanza shrinks to a pittance, and probate forestalls any chance of cashing in for at least a year.

The leading factors causing erosion include: increased population pressure resulting in forest/woodland clearance for wood and smallholding agriculture; traditional agricultural practices; and declining land productivity.

Land degradation in the form of soil erosion and declining land fertility is a serious challenge to agricultural productivity and economic growth (Lemenih 2004).

Loss of livestock due to factors such as declining land productivity, shrinking grazing areas, restricted movements, and the recurrent droughts has resulted in increased poverty and vulnerability of pastoral households and erosion of their resilience to future shocks (Fratkin 2008; Groom and Western 2013; Kirwa et al. 2012; Moyo et al. 2013).

They singled out for particular praise The Enigma of Arrival (1987), the story of a declining landed estate in southern England and the colonial background of its proprietor, calling it "an unrelenting image of the placid collapse of the old colonial ruling culture and the decline of European neighbourhoods".

To help bolster declining land-line companies, China announced last month that it will restructure the telecommunications industry.

The 1980 2010 combined estimated flux from fossil fuel combustion, and Amazon deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation averaged 431 (326, 538) Tg C, a value which has been remarkably steady, composed of a generally declining land-use component and a generally increasing fossil field component (Table 1).

Saffron was one of the contested points of hostility that flared between the declining landed gentry and upstart and increasingly wealthy merchants.

Even as home values have declined, land prices have remained high in Fairfield County, as well as in other parts of the state.