Sentence examples for regions lost from inspiring English sources

Greenpeace China's forest campaigner Wu Hao said the island – one of China's most biodiverse regions – lost 72,000 hectares of rainforest between 2000 to 2010, mostly to make way for rubber and paper plantations.

Women's Aid says while all regions lost services, the South West has been hardest hit, losing seven of its 24 children's services - nearly 30%.

The dead and the wounded, regions won and regions lost, shots fired, winners and losers.

In fact, Silicon Valley's fall is unmatched in state history since the Great Depression, when some regions lost 25% of their jobs, according to Stephen Levy, director of the Palo Alto-based Center for the Continuing Study of the California Economy.

Countries in the South American and African regions lost close to 10% of their forest area during the two decades, Figure 4. Asian and European forest area expanded several percent while the area in North America changed little.

We used the program InterProScan (Quevillon et al. 2005) to annotate domains in coding regions lost due to PTCs or gained due to SCLs.

His party triumphed in five out of seven regions, losing Liguria but gaining Campania.

Buenos Aires achieved similarly mixed results in other neighbouring regions, losing control of many while spreading independence from Spain.

Africa, with 24 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, and the Middle East-North Africa, with 21 per 100,000, are the other regions losing the most lives to traffic accidents.

Pakistan has captured or killed more than 600 terrorists and conducted more than 90 military operations in our frontier regions, losing 600 soldiers.

Palmer finished first in five of six regions, losing only the Midwest, Banks's home turf, where Banks finished first and Palmer second.