Sentence examples for formerly more from inspiring English sources

Many habitats have been extensively modified by agriculture, thus restricting the ranges of certain species that were formerly more widespread.

In fragmented landscapes plant species are often confined to remnants of formerly more widespread habitats, with many of their populations being small and isolated.

Some of this disconnect, of course, is because Mr. Romney's positions on some social issues were formerly more moderate when he was running for office in Massachusetts.

The formerly more distinct pastoral and agricultural systems have become well integrated, and nearly all farm households now engage simultaneously in crop and livestock production.

Thick soils on uplands of the Edwards Plateau are interpreted to be relicts of a formerly more extensive soil cover that was eroded during the late Pleistocene to middle Holocene.

Today, most of these formerly more widely distributed intermediate species also exist only as small and isolated populations which, because of their increasing geographic isolation, cannot counterbalance local extinctions by recolonisation.

How much of this does Carlson, formerly a more conventional conservative, really mean?

Lake Chad itself, with an area of only some 5,000 square miles, was formerly much more extensive.

(Formerly 223C) More than one-third of the brain is engaged in visual processing, the most sophisticated human sensory system.

Meanwhile, in a "power-devaluation crisis" the political establishment is perceived as favoring outsiders at the expense of a group that had formerly been more powerful.

It formerly was more widespread in Atlantic Brazil, however, but the distribution in this region now is greatly restricted (Sick 1997) and it has disappeared entirely from the southernmost areas that it formerly occupied in Rio Grande do Sul (Belton 1984).