Sentence examples for shrinking land from inspiring English sources

"The herd is shrinking, land prices have become cheaper.

The Serbian nationalist hysteria that swept Slobodan Milosevic to power in the late 1980's evaporated long ago, leaving him an isolated figure ruling over a shrinking land.

Though education and health indicators in chars are low, the younger couples seemed more inclined toward smaller families as shrinking land means that few could afford to support large families.

It was this journey that my camera crew and I followed, often down Highway 66, "the main immigrant road … the path of people in flight, refugees from dust and the shrinking land, from the thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership".

Amid fears about Kiribati's survival, the government has been forced to consider radical engineering schemes to mitigate a shrinking land mass, while buying farmland in Fiji as a "food security" measure.

By promoting crop flexibility, it could help feed billions of added mouths despite shrinking land and water, rising oil and fertilizer costs, increasing soil exhaustion, growing resistance of insects to pesticides and looming climate change.

Along with competitors' products like the Super Genius Mini Phone and the Go Chat Mini Phone, it is among the shrinking land-line phones following in the ever-smaller footsteps of cellular phones.

The berm, as it is known, cuts through farmland and orchards, separating the shrinking lands of the Iraqi state as it has existed for 95 years from the expanding territory of the new Islamic caliphate.

In a speech announcing the agreement yesterday morning, Ms. Harrison spoke of the history of the Confederated Tribes, describing a forced relocation to government reservations that led to shrinking lands and a scattered, dwindling population.

However — and this is a gigantic however — the awarding of the vital 20th team of Major League Soccer to New York City touches off a search for a soft spot to land, potentially in the shrinking acres of land available to the working people of Queens.

This scarcity is caused by a combination of factors that include erratic rainfall, shrinking grazing lands due to competition for land for crops and changing land use patterns that favour urbanization and settlement (Hall et al. 2007; GebreMariam et al. 2010; Ayele et al. 2012).