Sentence examples for substantial erosion from inspiring English sources

Upland areas of the continental interiors underwent substantial erosion during the Carboniferous.

The resulting Profumo affair heralded the fall of Harold Macmillan's Tory government, and with it a substantial erosion of the deference shown to the upper classes.

Analysis by Alan Travis The wide-ranging package on civil liberties is designed to "reverse their substantial erosion and roll back state intrusion".

The parties agree to implement a full programme of measures to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties under the Labour government and roll back state intrusion.

There was "substantial erosion," he said, at the Staten Island beaches and the Rockaways, where the waves breached 94th Street between 127th and 132nd Streets.

And all this, you may remember, from a government whose coalition agreement promises "a full programme of measures to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties under the Labour government and roll back state intrusion".

Thus, tilling steep slope areas of the latter two soils might cause significant erosion and soil loss due to their substantial increase in erodibility towards higher slope.

Cropping, particularly sugarcane, involves intensive fertiliser use and has created substantial soil erosion.

Based on this comparison, active restoration is likely to take place through small, low-priced parcels of land, usually in the context of substantial soil erosion risk and exacerbated deforestation.

Nora's winds also produced rough seas and high waves, which caused substantial beach erosion, particularly around Acapulco, where the Pie de la Cuesta beaches were washed away.

Hurricane Ethel caused substantial beach erosion throughout the barrier islands of Mississippi but brought a relatively small storm surge of 5 feet along the populated coastline.