Sentence examples for single continent from inspiring English sources

(Europe and Asia are sometimes considered a single continent, Eurasia).

There are about 10,000 grass species, most of them confined to a single continent.

There are only three genera of lungfish alive today and each is found on a single continent.

Pro-war Jacobins believed theirs was a mission not for a single nation or even for a single continent.

Fifty thousand years ago, sea levels were so low that Australia and New Guinea formed a single continent.

At the beginning of the Triassic, the world's dry land was united in a single continent, known as Pangea.

Across Earth's sunward face a riotous jungle is dominated by a single continent-spanning banyan tree.

Transportation improved radically as roads, canals and then, after 1830, railroads began to connect the various parts of an immense country and to weld it into a single, continent-wide market.

FOR all the constant rumours of bids and mergers between European retail banks, there has been disappointingly little progress towards the creation of a single, continent-wide market in financial services analogous with the single market in goods that the European Union has enjoyed for the past 13 years.

Provinces have also been recognized within single continents for other groups.

By contrast, the ranges of most late Cretaceous species seem to have been limited to parts of single continents.