• Every living land animal with a backbone is descended from the same group of fish.
• And then, as now, it was essentially a debate between maritime forces and land forces.
• The African elephant is the largest living land animal and weighs up to 5,400 kg.

• Any land over 5 hectares that is not urban land is also covered by the proposed regime.
• On every edge of the suburbs were hayfields, waste lands, ditches and culverts.
• Arable land is one thing the Eastern Cape is not short of but development of much of this has been slow or non-existent.

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• Edna Beard fell in love with the countryside while working the land to feed a nation at war.
• She is a country person who believes in using the products of the land.
• Savory also noted that too much rest was as bad for the land as too much grazing.

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• Lumbered with crippling debt, many farmers left the land, paving the way for the corporatization of agriculture.
• The programme, Clarissa and the Countryman, paid homage to the land and its food producers.
• But the growth of population was in the towns, and labourers left the land for the cities.

• They will point out that even in the settlement people are starting to make their own gardens, while others are joining them in the untilled lands.
• There were no fences, no tractors, no pineapples, no building and cattle were trampling the lands; we have had to start from scratch.

• Through reading the Harry Potter series, it would seem many want to enter children's imaginary fantasy lands, too.
• Sitting at your desk, making statues out of paperclips, it's easy to drift off into a fantasy land of ice cream and beaches.
• Do not be afraid of disappearing into a fantasy land of castles, maidens and jousting knights for an hour or two.

• When the US marines landed in the south, an armoured column immediately set out to meet them, eager at last to engage the enemy.
• It's a bay in south-western Cuba, in which US marines landed in 1898 during the Cuban War of Independence.
• As a combat correspondent in World War IL, he landed with the marines at Guam and Iwo Jima.

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• Pat Gannon landed his first Salmon of the season, a nice 10.5 lb fish at the Gannon fishery.
• International golfer Mark O'Meara was one of those to land a summer salmon, when he hooked and landed an 11 lb fish on the 5th.
• Some very good fish have been landed in the past week, with more being hooked and lost.

• It was in 1997 that Chris won his first major prize in an open competition by landing the President's Cup and the awards have come thick and fast since then.
• Dermot Weld's feat in landing a second Melbourne Cup is a remarkable achievement.
• He blindsided the competition by landing Wolfgang Reitzle to run the Premier Auto Group.

Synonyms

• The aircraft was immediately landed thereafter and the airframe was inspected.
• The crew landed the aircraft without further incident.
• With enemy cavalry approaching, LT McNamara landed his own aircraft under heavy fire.

• Brian went toppling over, landing with a splash in the pool.
• The lack of tread on the soles saw me fly into the air and nearly land face first on the treadmill.
• The distracted cyclist flew over the handlebars and landed on the pavement.

• You'd need to create a diversion, by throwing a rock that lands behind them, making a noise and distracting them temporarily.
• He then grabbed my flashlight and threw it so it landed right by my purse.
• I dropped my fork on the glass plate and it landed with a small ‘clank’.

• Good Friday became bad Friday for one group of Chessington residents when they were landed with £320 in parking fines.
• Smith has been landed with ‘extortionate’ water bills - because travellers are taking water from his supply.
• His tip-off to police landed Bailey with a five-year jail sentence when he appeared at York Crown Court.

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