Sentence examples for large land mass from inspiring English sources

Sunda was a large land mass that once incorporated Sumatra, Borneo, Java, the surrounding islands and the Malayan peninsula and connected them all to mainland Asia.

Some ancient Greek philosophers suggested that, to make the world symmetrical, there should be a large land mass at the South Pole to balance the northern continents.

"We've got a small population and very large land mass and we are an exporter of energy, so that measurement is a falsehood in a sense because it does not properly reflect exactly what our economy is," Hockey said.

The scientists believe that the trees grew in a sparsely populated forest about 200 million years ago, during the Pangea period, when all the continents were connected as one large land mass.

Since Tibet is a very large land mass and the population is spread out, the government states that it is difficult for them to set up waste collection system to these remote areas.

One weather forecaster, Gener Quitlong, said the typhoon retained most of its strength because there was no large land mass to slow it down, since the region was comprised of flat islands.

Energy prices are high as there is no opportunity for economy of scale benefits that large land masses enjoy.

The United States and other countries with large land masses want to use forest plantations to meet the goals of the proposed treaty.

But now that the species has landed on large land masses -- like the continents of Europe and North America -- there's no telling how quickly it will be able to spread.

It is possible the storm could regain Category 5 intensity if it remains clear of large land masses, which would disrupt the storm.

The drawback is that it distorts the shapes and areas of large land masses, and the distortion gets progressively worse as you get closer to the poles.