Sentence examples for ground is higher from inspiring English sources

At 160 175 days of snow coverage each year (pdf), Oulu's number of days with snow on the ground is higher than Winnipeg's average of 132.

There are two strategies: either you wear slightly platformed shoes, which give the illusion that the ground is higher than it is and mean you can wear a skirt that doesn't reach the ground but looks as if it does.

If the mean annual air temperature is the same in two areas, the permafrost will be thicker where the conductivity of the ground is higher and the geothermal gradient is less.

Accident data have shown that in pedestrian accidents with high-fronted vehicles (SUVs and vans) the risk of pedestrian head injuries from the contact with the ground is higher than with low-fronted vehicles (passenger cars).

Higher ground is higher than just high ground.

We then show that the probability of a region becoming a spring nesting ground is higher if the region was affected by a tropical cyclone 7 to 10 months earlier.

Because industrial capitalism wants it, the force exerted to draw it out of the ground is high, and, because there is an abundance of unskilled workers, the counterforce that miners are able to apply in their own defense is low.

It is helping to finance a 774-apartment project near the Gowanus Canal that works with the site's natural slope by clustering buildings where ground is highest and creating a park to sop up stormwater near the shore.

Due to combined loading the lateral load carrying capacity of pile in sloped ground is high in slope angle 1 2.5 and low in slope angle 1 1.5.

Generally groundwater levels, or the levels of saturated ground, are higher in winter and reach a peak in the spring.

It is also shown that particle deposition fractions around buildings on rough ground are higher than those for smooth ground.