Sentence examples for had been retreating from inspiring English sources

As McNabb let go of the ball, Sehorn, who had been retreating in coverage, broke forward and dived for the pass a few feet in front of Small.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet had been retreating for thousands of years as it lost more mass through movement to the coast than it built up in the interior.

Dr. Parkinson said that her examination of satellite data since the 1970's revealed that the Arctic ice cover had been retreating on an average of one-quarter of a percent a year.

Such a portrait was much needed, given that polar ice had been retreating record distances in summertime over the last decade and that sharp warming around the Arctic perimeter was prompting serious talk of an ice-free polar sea by midcentury.

Chad Jay of the walrus research program at the Alaska Science Center in Anchorage said that over the last decade, the ice sheet in the Chukchi Sea had been retreating steadily farther north each summer, to the point where it now moves off the continental shelf entirely and ends up over the deep arctic basin, in waters too deep for walruses to forage.

The bulk of the Seventh Army had been retreating down the Wadi Fara road where guns and transport had to be abandoned when heavily bombed and machine-gunned from the air.

A major coal burst occurred when the panel had been retreated 225 m.

Most of the patients had been retreated with another course of antibiotics, without long-standing improvement of the symptoms.

They have been retreating from unprofitably risky loans to clients, especially to small businesses.

The companies have been retreating from the residential market as a consequence.

Even Sweden has been retreating from its non-alignment by forming a partnership with NATO and joining the EU.