Sentence examples for receded about from inspiring English sources

In the 35-year period between 1955 and 1990, glaciers on the Rwenzori Mountains receded about 40%.

Figure 8 clearly shows that the Lake of Tanis arm has receded about 15 km farther West of Kedua than the paleolagoon/Pelusiac arm.

Once the water receded, about 8,000 people tried to return to their homes, and the number continues to rise.

The high clay cliff of Cape Cod, rising at Eastham and running north until it is lost in the sand dunes near Peaked Hill, is receding about three feet a year.

At high tide Chandipur Beach may appear like any other; however, at low tide the water recedes about three miles (five kilometers) from the shore, exposing the seabed to beach-goers.

Stimulus funds added close to $1.5 billion over two years, but now annual spending has receded to about $1.2 billion.

Since a speculative bubble burst in 1989, stock and land prices have receded to about one-quarter of their peaks.

As a result of these measures, inflation has receded to about 4% in 2013.

On such occasions, the bitemporal and frontal headache was of such severity that she would clutch her head and remain still until the pain receded, over about 5 minutes.

Dr Maslin's computer models of the expansion of life on earth as the glaciers receded suggest that about a trillion tonnes of extra carbon was sucked out of the atmosphere to help to manufacture all those extra leaves, stalks and trunks.

Bohrman's a large man, with a hairline that's receded to just about the very top of his head and a well-groomed salt-and-pepper beard.