Sentence examples for lost to development from inspiring English sources

In this study we quantify the total amount of open space lost to development for US cities, as well as the developed area per capita, which we refer to as "per capita land consumption".

But most of these have now been lost to development.

Of the remaining 5.8 million acres, only about a million acres have been lost to development.

Today, perhaps fewer than 400 bungalows remain, the others lost to development or neglect.

Because they have taken so long to evolve, once they are lost to development they are lost forever.

Without public support for their protection, our parks would be lost to development, and with them the biodiversity they foster.

And where farmland is being lost to development at the rate of 2,880 acres a day?

It epitomised the places we were losing to development in every county.

It was part of the company's Bring Back the Bees campaign, complete with its own hashtag, which sought to create habitat that bees are losing to development, farms and insecticides.

Somewhere I learned the World War II song "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree With Anyone Else But Me," and more recently my kids became Laurie Berkner fans and sang "Under A Shady Tree". Now we have a century-old tree here in La Crescenta that we are in danger of losing to development.

Many tidal marshes have been lost to shoreline development and urbanization and, sometimes, agriculture.