Sentence examples for more land has from inspiring English sources

Still, she noted, over that period more land has been set aside as open space, to mitigate the impact of the growth.

Rats and other pests carried on ships have overrun the habitats of isolated species, while more and more land has been turned over to agriculture.

Van der Werf said that in Africa, grassland fires have actually declined as more land has been converted to agricultural use.

However, the floods have long been unpredictable, in terms of both quantity and frequency, and flooding problems have worsened as more land has been deforested and put under cultivation.

The area of Hong Kong (Pinyin: Xianggang; Wade-Giles: Hsiang-kang) has expanded over the years, and it has continued to grow as more land has been reclaimed from the surrounding sea.

· Because of human demand for food, fresh water, timber, fibre and fuel, more land has been claimed for agriculture in the last 60 years than in the 18th and 19th centuries combined.

His appetite for more land had been whetted by the defeat inflicted on the Xhosa in the Cape Frontier War of 1835, and in 1836 Potgieter assembled and led his own Voortrekker group north of the Orange River.

More lands have been designated protected reserves and national parks in the previous eight years than in the 20 years prior, including the largest ecologically protected area on the planet in Hawaii- Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument which measures 582,578 square miles of land and sea in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

But over the past century, without seasonal flooding to nurture them with more sediment, land has eroded faster than the natural rate.

A new taxiway, which extended the full length of the runway, was opened in 1999, after more artificial land has been created and a second tunnel built for the highway and railway.

Glaciers have retreated, exposing more land which has been colonised by mosses that have been found to be growing more quickly and thickly than ever before – providing potential homes for invaders.