Sentence examples for islands best from inspiring English sources

Paul Scoon was Governor-General of the former British Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1983 when the little group of seven islands, best known for their beaches and their nutmeg, mace and other spices, became the world's No 1 headline.

The West Indies Cricket Board and West Indies Players Associationn have been in a state of perpetual warfare, leaving the islands' best players with no compunction about becoming T20 mercenaries rather than playing for their national team.

The garrison is an hour away, down the islands' best rural road, at the Mount Pleasant airbase: a moon colony of khaki sheds and bunkers, bars and bungalows, on a brown plateau where even the British services can barely get trees to grow.

Our analyses suggest that populations from the south and west of the Sulawesi Sea (east Borneo, south Sulawesi and the Lesser Sunda islands) best explain Y chromosome diversity, while populations from the south and east of Sulawesi (south Sulawesi, the Lesser Sunda islands and the Maluku islands), all in eastern Indonesia, best explain mtDNA diversity.

The 2005 winners of the prize were Andrea Levy with Small Island (best book) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie with Purple Hibiscus (best first book).

Your Broadcaster hails from the Isle of Man, an Island best known for its provision of off-shore banking accounts.

We arrived in high spirits to sunny skies, and an island best known for its pristine beaches and Full Moon Parties.

It takes place over four days on Plantation Island, a Fijian Island best known for looking like this, and is put on by the collective behind Sydney's Courtyard parties (Marco Polo, Ship Faced, Audiopaxx Agency, Charades, Your Shot, and others).

A significant, but partial match to a phage integrase (BMI_II1048) was detected at an extremity of this island (best hit in the genome of Hyphomonas neptunium, YP_760435.1, 59% identity).

The islands are best approached by flying to Athens and then either driving into the Peloponnes or getting the ferry or hydrofoil from Piraeus.

Gemma has been lucky enough to see each one of these endemic bird species, along with the other wildlife that the islands are best known for.