Sentence examples for last mainland from inspiring English sources

It was the last nice relatively undeveloped place in Florida when the boom hit, and its location, once its drawback (practically the last mainland town on the Gulf Coast, the end of the line) became its salvation.

There is Carregwastad Point, the scene of the last mainland invasion of Britain in 1797, when French soldiers came ashore, found a farm stocked up for a wedding feast, got drunk, and were surrounded and arrested by local pitchfork-wielding farm women and fishwives.

The last mainland population existed in the Kyttyk Peninsula of Siberia 9,650 years ago.

It was lost in 1291, followed by their last mainland strongholds, Tortosa (Tartus in what is now Syria) and Atlit in present-day Israel.

It's not clear how long her experiment can last before the mainland censors pull the plug on her website.

MR. CHEN, who was born in the Chinese city of Nanjing, last saw the mainland in 1949, when his family was on the run from the victorious Communist forces of Mao Zedong.

The other men reported missing are Lui Bo, the general manager of Mighty Current, last seen in mainland China in October, Cheung Jiping, 32, the publishing house's business manager and Lam Wingkei, 60, the manager of the book store, who was last seen in Hong Kong in October.

Puglia (South-East) and Calabria (the last part of mainland before Sicily), both part of the "Convergence" target, are characterized by a stronger intensity of per-capita payments in most of their LLMs.

Not surprisingly, this was one of the last areas of the mainland United States to attract residents.

The Cardamom Mountains in the southwest are the last true wilderness in mainland Southeast Asia, with many endangered species and, biologists believe, species new to science.

That date corresponds well with estimates of when the last land connection between mainland North America and the precursors of the Antilles was broken.