Sentence examples for lands are poor from inspiring English sources

Such lands are poor because they are prone to floods, drought and salinity.

Its land is poor.

Much of the land is poor, with pasture as the main use.

On China's side of the border, the land is poor and crowded.

The story goes something like this: The Western self was born in Greece, a pointillist realm of around 1,000 city-states, where the land was poor for farming.

In large parts of northern Russia where the land was poor, many serfs made a living from various crafts in cottage industry or even in factories and from their wages had to pay dues to their masters.

In the north, where land was poor, the price of land on which the compensation was based was unduly high; in effect, this served partly to compensate the landowners for the loss of their serfs and also for the loss of the share that they had previously enjoyed of the peasants' earnings from nonagricultural labour.

Some sectors – notably sheep enterprises in upland areas, where farms have to be extensive because the land is poor – rely heavily on these subsidies.

Most of the lands of the New Forest are poor agricultural lands, and archaeological and geographic studies have shown that the New Forest was likely sparsely settled when it was turned into a royal forest.

This type of analysis would be useful to conduct in other regions of subtropical, semi-arid ecosystems when information on carbon flux and land-use change are poor and where there is opportunity for improved carbon storage by means of changes in land-management practices.

The price is high, and many of the people with land to lease are poor and desperate.