Sentence examples for vast colonies from inspiring English sources

When they die, they fall several hundred metres, where vast colonies of bacteria consume their carcasses, using up tons of oxygen in the process.

You can take a boat ride to see – and smell – islands housing vast colonies of sea lions, penguins and the many other seabirds that once made Peru the guano capital of the world.

Introduced to control the rats that had arrived with sailors, they had instead chosen to prey on the vast colonies of sea birds that roosted on the lava plains, wiping them out.

Many of us believe that bed linens, pillows and mattresses must be replaced regularly to prevent them from becoming home to vast colonies of these nasty creatures, lest their feces spread and cause allergic reactions in family members.

The footage they turn in is remarkable – particularly when the determined humboldts have to run the gauntlet to avoid a vast colony of shirty sea lions.

— Robert Simonson Smithsonian: New research on the vast colony of microbes dwelling within all humans: how they digest our food, keep us well and make us ill.

The Union was more successful in acquiring the vast colony of South West Africa, which it conquered from the Germans during World War I.

In the years since returning home, however, he says he cannot let two or three days go by without taking a stroll through the remains of the vast colony blanketing the hills and valleys of the Green Mountains.

New for 2011 at the UK's first safari park, Longleat, is the brilliantly interactive Jungle Kingdom, where you can go walkabout with a mob of meerkats (heads up: they're dead keen on painted toenails) and a vast colony of chipmunks; hand-feed rainbow lorikeets; take a sea lion-escorted voyage and duck as monkeys swing overhead.

(What if, for instance, the Germans had been allowed to create a vast colony made up of former Belgian and Portuguese possessions, as the French and British apparently contemplated?) But most of all it is a story of the nightmare shaped by European imperial fantasies and lethally visited on African societies.

Four inches long, hairless, pale, wrinkled, and spindly-legged, it lives in vast underground colonies in Africa, like a termite, and is more closely related to porcupines and guinea pigs than to moles or rats.