Sentence examples for patch of the country from inspiring English sources

"If the subway stopped, all of Egypt would stop," Mr. Hady said, bragging about a service that actually covers only a small patch of the country.

It will need someone like Dylan Glenn to make good on his promise to lift up both black and white Americans in a patch of the country as ripe for change as this.

I also think white people will learn about themselves in a non-threatening way.' This ambitious project is typical of the Theatre Royal, which has made its mark with a number of black and Asian productions (lately musicals have been prominent) that reflect the ethnically diverse patch of the country it is situated in.

Yet the recovery has so far been enjoyed by a relatively small number of people in a few patches of the country.

The role of the planet on which the crew lands is taken by an especially dramatic patch of New Zealand, the country that played host to "The Lord of the Rings," and I could swear I saw a stray hobbit pottering about.

A very gracious host and an enthusiastic ambassador for his patch of the west country, he led me to the town's compact but charming museum, the kind of one-room miscellany of curious artefacts that seems, sadly, to be dying off in most places: a reproduction hairstylist's salon from the 1960s, geological models and a display of Soviet graphic art.

The 30,000 schoolchildren in the Big Bumblebee Discovery in the United Kingdom found more bees in an urban patch of lavender than in an equivalent patch in the country, BBC reports.

We're somewhere over a dark patch in the middle of the country and I'm in the window seat in the last row in the plane.

John Gilligan, chief information officer of the U.S. Air Force, estimates it takes 30 to 60 days to install a patch at every one of the country's 110 bases.

But as the train sped north, past the suburbs and into that vanishing patch of country between the two cities, he was almost asleep.

The patches of the different countries can also be attached to each other, creating one large holiday quilt for display in the classroom.