Sentence examples for former portion from inspiring English sources

There is an elbow of capture, where the drainage system has become connected to a former portion of a neighbouring system, to the east of Oxford, from which the Thames flows southward, receiving the Ock and its tributaries from the south, passes through the Goring Gap, and then winds east and north past Henley-on-Thames into the lower Thames basin.

The former portion became a gravel road upon completion in Port Republic.

Route 848 remains as a former portion of Route 371, which was originally designated in 1936 from New Milford to the New York state line.

M-67 was extended westerly along a former portion of US 41 to connect to the new highway on the south end of M-67.

In May 2002, US 13 was shifted to a new southbound alignment south of Odessa, with the former portion of the route in that area becoming a service road known as Harris Road.

All three species rest indoors and outdoors, so LLINs should exert some control on the former portion of their populations.

As segments of the freeway were completed, the former portions of M-76 were turned over to local control, except for portions near Roscommon and West Branch, which became parts of Business Loop I-75 designations.

The eastern (former Dongshan) portion of the district is home to two important sites the Martyrs Memorial Park, dedicated to those killed in the uprising against the Nationalists (Kuomintang) in 1927, and a mausoleum for the 72 people killed during an unsuccessful revolt against the Qing dynasty in 1911.

The former downstream portions became Phillips 66, a separate company engaged in the refining and marketing of petroleum products around the world under brand names such as Phillips 66, 76, and Jet; it also retained the parent company's interests in the production of petrochemicals.

In the former context, a portion of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase (COI) has been proposed as the standard barcode for animal identification [ 1, 8].

Later, Garcia II Nkanga a Lukeni (reigned 1641 61) sided with the Dutch against Portugal when the former country seized portions of Angola from 1641 to 1648.