Sentence examples for gained land from inspiring English sources

"In some cases - annexations, for example - cities have gained land through legal action.

This is not to say that these areas have really lost or gained land, but our digital representation has changed, therefore the numbers have changed".

A newly created “conditional” nobility comprising ennobled soldiers and settlers who gained land for military service strengthened the ranks of the lesser nobility.

In Swaziland the 3,000 whites who had gained land as temporary concessions from the king in the late 19th century retained virtually two-thirds of the total in land settlements in 1908 and 1915.

Satellite images show that in the natural process of erosion and accretion — in some places speeded up by a series of man-made dams and channels — Bangladesh has actually gained land over the last 35 years.

The new land is too muddy and slushy for people to safely live on, and the force of the Himalayan rivers is so powerful that it can wash away newly gained land in one fluke season.

The progenitor of this family, Anrothan, son of Aodh O'Neil, king of the north of Ireland, is said to have married the heiress of the King of Scots and gained lands campaigning there.

Dunmore defeated the Shawnee nation at the Battle of Point Pleasant, gaining land south of the Ohio River.

It's the same story in Denmark and Holland — we've been gaining land as the sea rises".

The idea, de Boer went on, would be not only to gain land and protect the coast, but also to showcase Dutch engineering skills.

This piece-by-piece process of gaining land moved forward two weeks ago with the purchase of 291-acre and 63-acre sites.