Sentence examples for highlands and a from inspiring English sources

Goroka is a centre of European settlement in the central highlands and a commercial and transportation hub for the region.

Quetzaltenango is a centre for trade between the coast and the highlands and a processing centre with textile factories, mills, and breweries.

Consequently, the signal of extensive deglaciation during short, intense interglacials could be missed or blurred, and we cannot distinguish between a remnant ice sheet in the East Greenland highlands and a diminished continent-wide ice sheet.

Phylogenetic analysis detected high cryptic genetic diversity, occurrence of unique microendemic lineages associated with older highlands, and a speciation history that took place during the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition.

Another pleasing starter, a beet tarte tatin, featured goat cheese from the Highlands and a lovely tangle of Skye greens.

The natural beauty of the Scottish Highlands and a vanishing way of life also plays a major part.

Under a time-dependent model, following a shift inferred at 3.16 Mya, there was a slowdown in speciation rate at the highlands and an increase in speciation rate in the mid range towards the present.

General Garner served two tours in Vietnam, first in 1967-68 an an infantry adviser in the central highlands, and as a district senior adviser in 1971-72 in the strategic hamlet program, which involved relocating Vietnamese in remote villages into areas heavily defended by American forces, he said.

This difference in arsenic metabolism between populations is partly explained by genetic factors: It was recently shown that six noncoding single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in AS3MT that were associated with altered AS3MT gene expression had a strong impact on arsenic metabolism in a population living in the Argentinean Andes highlands and in a population in Bangladesh (Engström et al. 2011).

A similar assessment has been reported by Gete (2000) in northwestern highlands and reported a very high rate of erosion ranging from 130 to 170 t ha−1 year−1.

Great Britain is traditionally divided into a highland and a lowland zone.