Sentence examples for islands growing from inspiring English sources

The airport is one of approximately 1,200 islands growing from the sea in a chain of coral atolls, stretching 500 miles from south to north, one day's sailing from the west coast of India.

Now, most of those who make the short flight from Quito, the capital, or sneak on the islands in boats are lured by different sorts of riches: the relatively high wages they can earn as taxi drivers and hotel maids or workers in the islands' growing bureaucracy.

The books spawned a mini-genre of fin de siècle fictions about children of nature, splashing in the shallows of Edenic islands, growing sturdy and beautiful and discovering sudden primal urgencies in their maturing bodies when they meet other children of nature (rather than succumbing to exposure, malnutrition and rickets, being eaten by predators or contracting picturesque tropical diseases).

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Such regions are absent in islands growing on pit-patterned substrates, explaining the observed different dependence of their PL spectra on P exc.

Her opponents have blocked efforts to create local school boards, curtail the islands' growing methamphetamine trade and lower a battery of taxes.

Almost all the islands grow coconuts, which, with copra, are a major export.

The Maori arrived here from further north or east in Polynesia about eight hundred years ago as their native islands grew too crowded to support an increasing population.

With increasing reaction time, small product islands grew to large islands, finally coalescing into continuous islands.

The temperature increase caused the islands to grow in size while the distribution of the islands grew sparser.

Nevertheless, the lateral composition profiles of islands grown on pits tend to be more symmetric than for islands grown on the planar surface.