Sentences with phrase «once plentiful»

Sadly, around the year 500 AD, the once plentiful palm had been completely wiped out, driven to extinction for the sake of conquest.

The bushmeat that was once plentiful is now scarce.

For example, the harlequin frog, golden toad, and an estimated two - thirds of the 110 or so other brightly - colored toad species once plentiful in the mountains of Costa Rica have vanished, with a pathogen outbreak tied to global warming believed to be a key factor in their extinction.

Understanding cancer in wildlife takes on a special urgency in endangered species; even once plentiful species, such as the Tasmanian devil, can find their numbers rapidly declining when cancer strikes.

The chief problem with any post-apocalyptic film is that last act - mostly because all the interesting parts tend to stem from the events leading up to the destruction of civilization, humanity's efforts to cope with the few vestiges of once plentiful technology, and the small dramas and action sequences which reduce a group of irritable survivors to a select and more compelling few.

For example, the harlequin frog, golden toad, and an estimated two - thirds of the 110 or so other brightly - colored toad species once plentiful in the mountains of Costa Rica have vanished, with a pathogen outbreak tied to global warming believed to be a key factor in their extinction.

The now - extinct passenger pigeon was once plentiful in North America, with flocks of millions of birds roaming the country in search of acorns.

Ribbed mussels, once plentiful before many marshes were paved over, are a natural choice for scrubbing the Bronx River, says team member Julie Rose, a research ecologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Northeast Fisheries Science Center's Milford Laboratory in Connecticut.

Hammerhead sharks were once plentiful in the waters of Baja California.

Once plentiful, both species have now disappeared from 93 percent of their historic range.

Sales, once plentiful, had all but evaporated at Optomec, the Albuquerque company where Miller is chief executive.

Not exact matches

Once those regulations are updated, Open Avenue can officially open its doors, and McKillican says the rewards to investing in an open forum are plentiful.

Where I once scoured the internet for articles in support of women's equality and LGBT equality, they are now plentiful, overwhelming.

But during the summer when fresh tomatoes are tasty and plentiful — it's definitely worth it to make some easy healthy fresh tomato salsa at home — at least once in a while.

Once your milk becomes more plentiful («comes in»), you should notice more wet diapers and greater wetness with each one.

But SuperPACs and (c) 4s are INDEPENDENT by definition, even if they do sometimes use the same media firms as the campaigns, meaning that they can't coordinate their messaging OR their canvassing, once again wasting resources which weren't plentiful to begin with.

The passenger pigeon was once the world's most plentiful bird.

NPR reported that Codfish were once so plentiful on Cape Cod as to sustain New England's fishing industry; now, local cod are increasingly scarce and local restaurateurs are switching to serving cod from Iceland.

Sweet potatoes, once the major source of nourishment for Native Americans and early settlers, are rich in potassium, calcium and vitamins A and C. They're plentiful, inexpensive and versatile.

There was once a time, not too many generations ago, where men and women would «fatten» themselves purposefully in the times of plentiful food — in order to survive the harsh realities winter would certainly hand them.

Once your milk becomes more plentiful («comes in»), you should notice more wet diapers and greater wetness with each one.

It is kind of addictive once you start, my family give me all their old jumpers and my Mother and aunt like to wear bright colours, so I have a plentiful supply.

Then all of a sudden like a dam bursting Anthropologie is once again plentiful with Ric Rac releases.

Date ideas are plentiful here, once you start thinking beyond the casinos!

Although gags are plentiful, I must say that Free Jimmy failed to make me laugh even once, and more often made me feel repulsed in its unwavering adherence to lewdness as a crutch to seem punchy and irreverent.

Once there, however, Shirlee discovers that opportunities are hardly as plentiful as she might have hoped (and expected)- with the never - say - die character's luck taking a turn for the better after she's accidentally placed on the radio as a radio - show host.

Gadgets once again are in plentiful supply, and no stone is left unturned on that front.

The auteur is alive and well, arthouse and blockbusters are plentiful, documentary films are on fire, genre films are stronger than ever, and let's just echo it all once more for posterity: female - led projects are popular, bankable, and breathtaking, as are strong women characters.

Any chance I get to drive a modern pocket rocket now (sadly, they are not as plentiful as they once were) invariably plasters a goofy grin on my face.

Thankfully, interior accommodations are plentiful as the boot holds 528 litres and once you fold the rear seats that goes up to 1.642 litres.

Genre publishing has been hammered over the past two decades by the decimation of the mass market — the cheap paperbacks, once seen in great variety in grocery stores and airports, which are no longer as plentiful due to a complex set of factors linked to the consolidation of distributors.

The fact that the content is free and plentiful seems like a fair compromise to the fact that the content is often removed once the print ed is out [which makes sense to me - you want to make people buy the books]

In fact, once color eInk is cheap and plentiful we might see some drastic changes.

Once upon a time, high dividend yields were plentiful... so much so that they may have been taken for granted.

Of course, whole chicken contains a lot of water before processing so once the chicken is cooked, this ingredient will not be the most plentiful in the food, but it's still nice to see it listed prominently.

Reporting on their study of free - roaming cats in Brooklyn, Calhoon and Haspel write: «Although birds and small rodents are plentiful in the study area, only once in more than 180 [hours] of observations did we observe predation.»

Today traps are pulled about once a week, but in the recent past when lobster were more plentiful, pulling every 3 or 4 days was usual.

Drawing me back year after year I once again await yet another day of exploring this plentiful fishery fly rod in hand.

Cruise ships, once the exclusive domain of vacationers, have become floating hotels with plentiful activity for business travelers, conference groups,...

To the north in places like Puerto Escondido, surf gear is plentiful, but once you are in Salina Cruz, you are not going to want to leave, so bring plenty of boardshorts, sunblock, leashes, extra fins, wax and rash guards.

and the variety is pretty plentiful once you get into the higher levels.

In the 500 million years since oxygen became plentiful in the atmosphere it has been hotter and colder (according to some ice once covered the entire earth).

It found that the pikas no longer existed in seven of 25 sites where they once were plentiful.

The plentiful, affordable and dependable supply of U.S. natural gas, coupled with the fuel's environmental advantages, makes it a logical alternative, because it achieves what were once thought to be mutually exclusive goals: providing more energy with a smaller impact on our environment.

Throughout the latter part of the 20th century, the once - plentiful wild salmon populations in the chilly waters of the North Atlantic dwindled to dangerously low levels, affecting not only the sensitive ocean and river ecosystems of the region, but also the rural communities for whom salmon fishing is a long - held local tradition and source of income.

According to Shark Savers, a scientific study conducted in the mid-Atlantic part of the United States showed that when 11 species of sharks were nearly eliminated, 12 of the 14 species those sharks once fed on became so plentiful that they damaged the ecosystem, including wiping out the species farther down the food chain on which they preyed.

The Firth of Clyde was once known for plentiful fishing of herring, cod, haddock, and turbot.

The debt is cheaper and more plentiful once you start requiring a lot of funding for projects.

With cheap debt not nearly as plentiful as it once was for today's borrowers, prices of hotel assets are expected to drop in the next year, says Tim Bonang, manager of investor relations for Hospitality Properties Trust.

Derelict local shops Once a flourishing retail scene, local village shops and independent stores were plentiful until the invention of supermarkets and malls.