Sentence examples for were once distributed from inspiring English sources

The discovery of M. sudamericanum in 62 million-year-old Patagonian sediments confirmed that platypuses were once distributed through the southern continents that were once linked geographically (Gondwanaland).

Micronesians were once distributed fairly evenly, but settlement patterns changed at the turn of the century as large numbers of people migrated from rural areas to towns.

Spurred by the proliferation of inexpensive hand-held video cameras and broadband Internet access, the dispatches that were once distributed internally are now published on blogs, and the video clips that would have wound up on the cutting room floor are posted on Web sites.

More obscure titles that were once distributed routinely, if not profusely, on videocassette are being dropped by studios more interested in developing the biggest and best known older films in DVD special editions that will sell by the bushel at mass outlets like Best Buy and Wal-Mart.

Atelopus varius, known in the pet trade as the "clown frog", was once distributed across a wide area of Costa Rica and Panama.

The bridled nailtail wallaby was once distributed across millions of square kilometres ranging from Charters Towers in north Queensland down to the Murray River on the New South Wales-Victorian border.

The Bornean orangutan was once distributed throughout large areas of Kalimantan and Malaysian Borneo, but its population has fallen by more than 50percentt over the past 60 years.

Although the louseborne epidemic form of the disease was once distributed globally, it is now localized to a few countries.

Cultivated grapes were domesticated from the wild V. vinifera subsp. sylvestris [ 7], which was once distributed widely from the Middle East to Western Europe [ 8].

The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), as one of most widely recognized conservation icons in the world, was once distributed over southern and eastern China and extended to northern Burma and northern Vietnam.

Ospreys were once widely distributed, especially in Scotland, but they were persecuted, and became extinct here as early as the 1900s.