Sentences with phrase «small islands grow»

Instead of holes, many small islands grow on the surface.

Cells on the small islands grew into fat cells, filled with fatty lipids.

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While growing up, Jake and his younger sister, Caroline Danehy, spent many summers in the small town of Fair Harbor on Fire Island.

I grew up in a small Rhode Island town and my parents» dream was for me to grow up and become an actress.

The small island north of Scotland has just over 8,000 people residing there with a very small Muslim community, including a growing number of Syrian refugees.

Located just north of the square, this small store sells everything to do with mastic, the famous resin from a certain tree grown on the Greek island of Chios.

The bird pepper is a small annuum or frutescens pod type that grows wild throughout the islands, and Scotch Bonnets are cultivated in backyard gardens, but neither are grown commercially.

«The small red peppers or chillies are largely grown in the more dry and rocky part of the island, where the upheaved coral presents a honeycombed surface that favours the accumulation of rich soil in the crevices.

Zanzibar, 1897 In the Kew Bulletin (1892, p. 88) the following information respecting chillies was given in an article on the Agricultural Resources of Zanzibar, contributed by Sir John Kirk, G.C.M.G., K.C.B.: — «The small red peppers or chillies are largely grown in the more dry and rocky part of the island, where the upheaved coral presents a honeycombed surface...

Emily Schaefer grew up on a small island off the coast of Maine with Acadia National Park as her backyard, where she gained a respect and awe of her environment.

Over the last 40 + years, the Long Island Wine Industry has grown from one small vineyard to 3,000 acres of vines and over fifty wine producers.

Kona Coffee is made from the dyed beans of the coffee plant, grown exclusively in a small 30 mile Kona region on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summertime; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

Skartados, the seventh of eight children, was born on the Greek island of Astypalaia, and grew up on a small farm which he helped his father maintain.

Photographer Camille Seaman grew up in the shadow of New York City, but she learned the traditions of the Shinnecock, her father's people, a small fishing tribe based on eastern Long Island.

You grew up in Launceston, a small city on the island of Tasmania.

The island's isolation and its small population were the main reasons the federal government granted an exclusive licence to Tasmania to grow opium poppies for legal commercial production half a century ago.

The new species, which can grow to well over a meter in length, was named Varanus semotus, a Latin reference to the remoteness and isolation of the relatively small and partly volcanic island where the lizard was found.

But it's been argued that these remains are from Homo sapiens, who, after becoming stuck on the island, underwent «insular dwarfism» over hundreds of thousands of years, growing smaller to help them survive.

Having said that, we profile in the book a small but growing number of charter schools that are intentionally diverse — the Denver School of Science and Technology, High Tech High in San Diego, City Neighbors in Baltimore, Morris Jeff in New Orleans, Blackstone Valley Prep in Rhode Island, Capital City and E.L. Haynes in Washington, D.C., Community Roots in Brooklyn and Larchmont in Los Angeles.

He hopes for one thing: to hear from the young woman on the island, to get a letter saying that she is safe and well and thinks of him and even - here the hope dies, and, missing her, he feels again like a man grown small in the distance.

The small population that re-established on mainland Ascension in 2012 grew rapidly from 2 pairs in 2012 (of which 1 chick successfully fledged) to > 100 pairs in 2016, and is expected to grow further as more birds re-distribute from Boatswainbird Island.

Since then our small, locally owned and operated business has grown from our first restaurant in Kaimuki to several restaurants island wide.

3) A small island of hair which may grow from the corner of the eye next to the nose, may act as a wick and tears will then overflow.

Most of the island remains undeveloped and has been left to Mother Nature: cactus, thorny scrub, and windswept woodlands interspersed with «kunukus» (small holdings) growing «maishi» (corn) and raising goats and sheep.

This tree can grow 80 feet high on the mainland, but on Ambergris Caye it tends to be much smaller and grown on the lee side of the island.

Trish McNeill grew up in Canada's smallest province, Prince Edward Island.

A small problem here can grow to a large problem if you don't have a chance to leave the island for a doctor visit.

Growing up on the small, tropical «island of the gods», in central Indonesia.

India's financial capital, located on the west coast, originally consisted of seven individual islands inhabited by small fishing communities, which have since joined together and grown into this cosmopolitan city.

Having grown up in Isla, Kristen saw the transformation of the island go from a small fishing village to an international tourist destination with some of the highest ranking beaches in the world.

Ceningan Island is one of the smallest out of three sister islands of Nusa Penida, it offers a sheer wall dive with the healthiest reef, soft corals and table corals are well grown into Nusa Penida channel.

It is pretty cool to see the overworld grow from a tiny piece of land, to a small cluster of islands, to a huge series of continents as large as any of the previous games.

He grew up isolated on a small island where debris often washed up from these storms.

Nina Katchadourian (Brooklyn, New York) was born in Stanford, California and grew up spending every summer on a small island in the Finnish archipelago, where she still spends part of each year.

China knows that the most vulnerable countries, such as the small island countries, should get priority for international funding, but China has not counted itself out of contention for funds in the long run, when $ 10 billion per year in aid grows to $ 100 billion per year.

There are many signs that the world is heading into a period of warming --- one that could melt glaciers, flood small islands and coastal cities, threaten some animal species and make crops difficult to grow in previously productive agricultural regions.

The small island state supplies about half of the world's medicinal opiate market, with 1,000 or so farmers growing the crop under strict license for use in the manufacture of morphine and codeine.

Carey Olsen has advised Cora Gold, a gold mining company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, on its recent listing on the London Stock Exchange's AIM, a market for smaller, growing companies.