Sentence examples for size of countries from inspiring English sources

Uganda itself has an abundance of wildernesses within half a day's drive of the capital: woodlands, acacia savannahs, swamps, lakes the size of countries, and rainforests where chimpanzees and gorillas have lived for thousands of years.

This approach displays the size of countries accurately but still distorts their shapes, and has failed to become widely adopted (see our map "slider" above for a comparison of the two projections).

And already it is clear that our planet has started to stretch, strain and buckle and unzip at its seams, with a gathering body of scientific evidence being unlocked from within the ice cores drilled beneath the chair I sat on while writing from Antarctica, alongside images of the marked retreat of the glaciers, now deserted by ice shelves the size of countries.

The results show that the size of countries, their wealth and the distance between their capital cities are significant determinants of patent flows.

Then, we move in the "Optimal size of countries in a democratic setting" section to a world where border redrawing is determined "democratically".

They also find that fiscal decentralization is positively associated with the size of countries, both in terms of population and area.

Rosa was a short, heavyset man with hands the size of country hams.

As the pace of agricultural reform quickened under Elizabeth I, the number and size of country houses grew.

where POP represents the size of country's population.

Data weighted to be nationally representative and to reflect size of country's population.

And, importantly, the MGI index differs from others because it corrects for the size of country.