Sentence examples for substantial island from inspiring English sources

It took 27 years to build, owing to subsidence of the apparently substantial island.

It is a substantial island – the 10th largest in Scotland – but it has a population of fewer than 1,500.

On the one hand, it's a developer's dream, a substantial island, most of it in pristine condition, just off the North Fork.

In Pool 6 of the UMRS, deposition over the last 40 years has produced substantial island growth.

In the Western Isles Ketill Flatnose may have been the dominant figure of the mid 9th century, by which time he had amassed a substantial island realm and made a variety of alliances with other Norse leaders.

In the Western Isles Ketill Flatnose was the dominant figure of the mid 9th century, by which time he had amassed a substantial island realm and made a variety of alliances with other Norse leaders.

The 15 inhabited islands have a total population of 27,400 and there are more than 50 substantial uninhabited islands.

That leaves "Descartes' Bones" less substantial than "The Island at the Center of the World," Mr. Shorto's superlative history of 17th-century Dutch Manhattan.

The income generated from a kuda laut production unit is substantial for the island families that own and operate each production unit and sell directly to exporters.

However, despite their proximity to mainland Greece, political and institutional differences were substantial between these islands and the neighboring Greek coast that was under Ottoman rule.

Moreover, these two species display statistically significant negative values of Fu's F S for a substantial number of islands (4 out of 7 for both species), suggesting a past episode of demographic expansion for these populations (Pico, São Jorge, and Terceira islands for Sancus acoreensis and Faial, Flores, Pico and Terceira islands for P. oromii) (Table  2).