Sentence examples for major subdivision from inspiring English sources

The country's fourth major subdivision, the Galapagos Islands, were little more than pirate nests during the colonial period.

Mississippian Subperiod, first major subdivision of the Carboniferous Period, lasting from 358.9 to 323.2 million years ago.

"Any intelligent developer will tell you one of the most significant costs for land development is the time it takes to get a major subdivision approval," he said.

The first major subdivision in Wading River began in 1990 with Meadowcrest, a development of nearly 200 single-family houses that is being built in four sections.

"I think that will be the last major subdivision in Chester," said Barry G. Salmon, a builder and owner of Salmon Realtors on Route 24 in Chester.

Indeed, the adrenal medulla is an integral part of the sympathetic nervous system, a major subdivision of the autonomic nervous system (see human nervous system).

Major subdivisions of the Permian Period are identified by extended periods of lowered sea level and by major faunal change.

Other major subdivisions of the system include the Shackleton, Pensacola, Horlick, Queen Alexandra, Britannia, Prince Albert, Dufek, and Admiralty ranges.

Holostean (infraclass Holostei), any member of a group of primitive bony fishes that make up one of the three major subdivisions of the superclass Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes).

Along with the chondrosteans and the holosteans, they are one of the three major subdivisions of the class Actinopterygii, the most advanced of the bony fishes.

With the rise of the holosteans and teleosts (the other two major subdivisions of the Actinopterygii) during the Mesozoic, the chondrosteans declined.