Sentence examples for extent of steep from inspiring English sources

Farmers in the area have been practicing agricultural activities to the extent of steep slope topographic positions which are prone to quick degradation.

Indeed, even water has been in serious short supply as a consequence of the limited areal extent, the steep terrain, and the lack of catchment areas.

Al-Nafūd fills an irregular basin surrounded by hills, ridges, and buttes (isolated flat-topped hills rising abruptly from the surrounding land) or mesas (table-topped plateaus of relatively small extent with steep rock walls).

The enamel maturation can be endangered both by the long-lasting over-intake of fluoride or, to some extent, by the steep peaks of plasma fluoride due to its quick absorption from empty stomach [ 1, 30].

There are lots of steep steps.

It took eight hours of steep climbing.

Those snows feed a series of steep, fast-moving glaciers.

All routes include sections of steep, rugged terrain.

During the 1960s, Blyth entered a period of steep decline.

Similarly, the location of steep dose gradients provided by modern highly conformal radiotherapy or stereotactic radiosurgery allowing sparing of adjacent normal structures requires excellent definition of the soft tissue and bony extent of disease.

It is thought that if housebuilders added in the price of the incentives they have been using to encourage the public to buy new homes, the real extent of house price falls could be far steeper than otherwise indicated.