Sentence examples for large mainland from inspiring English sources

Recent censuses in many large mainland countries indicate this has slowed.

Despite a thawing in those tensions, companies with large mainland Chinese shareholdings face restrictions on investing in companies in Taiwan.

Taiwanese companies with large mainland operations include Compal, a supplier of Dell Computer, and Hon Hai Precision, which makes products for Sony and Hewlett-Packard.

The measure and weight systems for the large mainland part of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies were unified in 1840.

Other island effects such as Foster's rule, which describes how small mainland species become larger and large mainland species become smaller, can take effect.

We assume that an ancestral host population has split into two populations, a large mainland and a small island.

HONOLULU — For years, large mainland-based retailers tended to steer clear of the islands that make up the state of Hawaii because of the extremely high costs of buying land and shipping goods, as well as a tight supply of construction workers and retail employees.

It turned out to be the largest mainland bomb ever detonated in peacetime British history, but there were no fatalities.

Newfoundland and Labrador, province of Canada composed of the island of Newfoundland and a larger mainland sector, Labrador, to the northwest.

Tasmania's Liberal premier, Will Hodgman, said there has always been ongoing threat that larger mainland states will swallow up Tasmania's GST share, and he would fight for his state's entitlements.

Giant island imperial pigeons, the size of small chickens, commute to fruit trees on the larger "mainland" islands from the dozens of islets we pass where the birds congregate in large communal roosts.