Sentences with phrase «small area of land»

Because its population of 3.5 million residents is concentrated on such a small area of land, Connecticut is one of the most densely populated states in the nation.

All those skyscrapers, architecturally impressive as they are, were built to house large, tightly controlled, centralized burocracies within a very small area of land, geographically near the other like - minded burocracies they did business with.

In such cases, setting aside a relatively small area of land for refuges can delay resistance substantially.

The tyrannosaurid dinosaurs likely evolved in isolation on the island continent, with incursions of the seaway separating small areas of land from each other.

A spokesperson at BrightSource claimed that the new design was «far more land - efficient because we can concentrate more heliostats in a smaller area of land.

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In practice, this meant more public land was set aside for conservation purposes and, in the areas still open to logging, cut blocks — those strategically shorn sections of forest seen in aerial photos — grew smaller.

I ended up purchasing a small piece of land (with mostly other people's money) in a great area.

That's clearly false — only a small area of the oil sands deposit — about 4,750 square kilometres, or 3 times the land area of Los Angeles — is mineable, with the remainder accessible only with in situ extraction or, in some cases, not recoverable at all with current technology.

It is one of the smallest cities in Massachusetts in terms of total land area and one of the most densely populated cities in the country.

They can choose the membership that works best for them month - by - month, sitting in shared area, landing a pod of dedicated desks, or moving into their own small to midsize office within the coworking space.

The first is the redrawing of Highwood's boundaries where new electoral lines have transformed the riding from a large rural land base to a small, dense area of people that more closely resembles an urban riding.

There were a lot of Sikhs who supported him and his idealogies and wanted their own state because they believed that land was theirs, they farmed and lived on it for centuries and provided the majority of Indias food with a small area.

A sprawling lake runs down the entire left side of this hole, and the longer you drive it, the smaller the landing area gets.

The layout tends to mitigate the distance advantage that so many of the big bombers enjoy elsewhere on the PGA Tour, rewarding precision tee - to - green down narrow landing areas and into small greens.

Currently Carondelet's campus is situated on one of the smallest parcels of land of any top - quality high school in the Bay Area.

Covering about 32,020 hectares of forest land, the Kalakpa Game Reserve traverses two traditional areas; Adaklu and Abutia, and it is home for wild animals such as buffaloes, antelopes, baboons and smaller mammals.

The nations that have made the most progress towards weaning themselves off of fossil fuels have also been countries with small land area.

The developers have again demarcated a significant portion of the school land for immediate demolition, leaving the school with a very small area within which to operate.»

Still, smaller orangutan populations in deforested areas of Borneo — due to logging or conversion to farm land — experienced the severest rates of decline, up to a 75 percent drop in one region.

In 2002 35 percent of the total area cleared of trees consisted of land swaths smaller than 0.5 square kilometer, whereas by 2010, the contribution of these small areas to the overall deforestation number increased to 80 percent.

But the amount of land space taken up by cities is actually relatively small compared with the number of people they shelter: satellite image composites show that urban sites cover only 2.8 per cent of the Earth's land; accordingly the UN estimates that about 3.3 billion people occupy an area less than half the size of Australia.

To date, the government has ordered some 1.2 million people in two cities and 116 towns clustered on the banks of the Yangtze to be evacuated to other areas before construction, promising them plots of land and small stipends — in some cases as little as 50 yuan, or $ 7 a month — as compensation.

The area the group has in mind, though, is no small plot of land.

However, Earth's atmosphere interferes with UV readings, so the team used Hubble to take UV images of a small area of the lunar surface that included the landing sites of the Apollo 15 and 17 spacecraft.

An urban area, or urban agglomeration, was defined as a built - up area of a central city and any suburbs or small cities that were linked together by continuous urban land.

Response: Despite the small land area of the plant, SMR - 160 will accrete a small fraction of the dose of a large contemporary reactor at its site boundary because of the many dose mitigation features built into its design, viz:

In Patagonia, analysis of glacier area and length changes shows that recession is widespread (90.2 % have retreated since 1870), is more rapid in smaller land - terminating glaciers, and that rates of recession are accelerating.

before white man came to Australia the Aboriginals had small family units and each had «custodianship» of their land and an animal they were forbidden to hunt so their land was a «nursery» for the surrounding areas.

The surrounding area is very wide open full of farm land, trees, and anything else you would picture a small town to be.

The state with the largest land area (663,268 square miles) has one of the smallest populations.

The 11th least populous and 8th smallest by land area, Hawaii has 750 miles of coastline.

With all this action, and smallest land area of any U.S. city with at least 2.5 million people, you had better keep your eyes wide for accidents.

Kaylie was born and raised in Arizona on a small ten acres of land her family purchased after moving from the Bay area.

Small Hope Bay Lodge offers several island and nature tours, providing visitors an opportunity to explore the diverse environment of this Bahamian out island, the fifth largest, and the least developed land mass in the Caribbean and tropical Atlantic area.

North Sooke is home to hundreds of kilometers of logging roads that lead through the Rural Resource Lands of the Juan de Fuca electoral area, giving access to several community lakes and small reservoirs.

The reality is that Bali is perfectly safe to travel even in case the volcano erupts, except for a very small area around Mount Agung which represents less than 5 % of the land mass of the Island.

Touring in small groups of up to only 20 travellers, KWA understands that touring is about more than just visiting an area, it is also about gaining an intimate understanding of the land and its people.

Mesa Lane Partners has assembled and acquired one of the largest single tracts of land in the highly sought - after downtown waterfront area, presenting a unique opportunity for a small group of accredited investors to co-invest with Mesa Lane Partners and enjoy an equity interest in an extraordinary community serving development located in an extremely high barrier to entry market.

Just below the chapel is a level area of land and we climb down to discover a small cave in which we can settle down for the night.

Luckily for us, the weather and the waves were quite calm, allowing us to land the tender boats on a small area of the stony beach.

Established in 1972 with a land area enumerating 1 983 ha (the smallest of any Costa Rican national park), it is the destination of as many as 150,000 visitors annually and well known for its beautiful beaches and hiking trails.

The island of Upolu in Western Samoa is a small island in the South Pacific with a land area of 1115sq km.

The smaller villa units are ideal for honeymooners and sit on a total land surface area of 150 sqm.

Though Samara is a tiny town, 20 minutes north of this area, it has its own airstrip in the closest domestic airport in Nosara where you can land by small planes.

Look up because authorised small planes land on and take off from the beach at any time of day in some designated areas.

Origin of Pain is based around the cunningly named Paine Island, a small, rocky, tropical chunk of land that sits just off the shore of the game's main area.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at begismall delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at begiSmall tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

The challenge of the game though, will be trying to land those perfect dives in small landing area.

You start with a fairly small area of available land on which to build, but can expand this area over time.

To the left of the Droid Factory doors is a small cave / cove, pass through the cave to the land bridge area and look to the left of the opening to find a small landing that requires a double jump to reach.