Sentences with phrase «long near extinction»

For many New York City office workers, an honest lunch break is a phenomenon long near extinction.

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Hunted to near extinction, the swan is taking advantage of warmer, longer summers to expand its range and numbers

That's a revolting development on its face but given that B&N is facing near - certain extinction (their stock price is approaching death - knell territory), the Nook probably won't be around much longer, either.

With Alaska no longer the profitable endeavor, the foreign invaders left, leaving the bowhead whale, the walrus, and the caribou in a state of near extinction.

In particular, many of the plant populations predicted to persist in the near future will actually do so under local climate conditions that are already unsuitable for their long - term survival because long live spans and clonal reproduction strategies of many high mountain plants allow them to retard extinction.

It's one of the last fish stocks that hasn't been plundered to near extinction — but it might not stay that way for long.