Sentence examples for river land from inspiring English sources

For centuries, residents had been forced to cluster on natural high ground close to the river, land backing up to city-owned cypress swamps that went largely untouched.

The jungle park was sold two years later and turned into condominiums and a golf course except for 18 acres in the heart of the garden, which were bought for $1.7 million in 1995 by the Indian River Land Trust.

Removing the Sheridan would open up 13 acres of open space along the river, land that advocates want to connect with some 15 other acres of service roads and riverfront property to create 1,200 affordable housing units, commercial and industrial space, and amenities like playgrounds, swimming pools and soccer fields.

For example, in Ijburg – a brand new part of Amsterdam built on reclaimed river land – daycare centres, university spaces, schools, civic spaces and high-end properties were deliberately built together with the aim of creating community spaces that would be shared by people of different social-economic backgrounds and ages.

In the upper most and middle catchment areas of the Gin river, land cover types in Case 1 do not match properly with the land cover types in Case 2, while they match fairly well in the downstream area and in some parts of the upstream area (Fig. 5a, b).

Their goal was to spend the hot summer months in the countryside and away from the flat river land, for their health, but both of them contracted either malaria or yellow fever.

Boatyards and warehouses sprang up around its river landing.

Beyond the fertile river lands, however, a more troubling pattern is emerging.

An audacious river landing was the only option, an official of the controllers' union told Reuters.

The best option left was to attempt an audacious river landing.

At another, he accidentally left his box of drawings behind at a river landing.