Sentence examples for land was lost from inspiring English sources

But let's remember that very little land was lost when sea levels rose last century.

Over the course of a few tens of thousands of years 90 percent of all ocean species and three quarters of life on land was lost.

But very little land was lost when sea levels rose last century, and it costs relatively little to protect the land from rising tides.

Furthermore, two land use change maps showed that substantial arable land was lost by urban growth in 2000 2008, and the establishment of industrial parks encroached on large salt marsh in the second study period.

Over the generations, some of that land was lost to taxes and land grabs as governance of the Valley changed from Spain to Mexico to the independent Republic of Texas, which became part of the United States in 1840s.

Growing up in the Huntington area, where she still lives and works, Ms. Roux experienced what she described as "the friction between people and nature," as more and more undeveloped land was lost to suburbanization.

More and more people are migrating to cities as land is lost to erosion.

During the 1980s, an estimated 11.3m hectares of forested land were lost each year, an area roughly the size of Greece.

"I was actually obsessed, especially when I was working on the book, feeling that it's all lost, that the land is lost," he said.

With councils such as Bristol cutting spending to zero, and land being lost to developers, what's happening to our public gardens?

Every year 700 hectares of land is lost to hotels, luxury housing for rich foreigners or just roads to improve connections on the island.