Example sentences of "[no cls] [prep] [art] earth ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the fresh water in the world 's lakes and streams represents barely 0.01 per cent of the earth 's total store of water , which is mainly saline . |
| 2 | All the fresh water in the world 's lakes and streams represents barely 0.01 per cent of the earth 's total store of water , which is mainly saline . |
| 3 | Nearly 10 per cent of the Earth 's surface is covered by ice , which remains as terra incognita to climatologists as it was to 17th-century explorers . |
| 4 | Savanna regions occupy c. 20 per cent of the earth 's land surface , comprising some 23 × 107sup6 ; km located between the equatorial rainforests and the mid-latitude arid and semi-arid deserts . |
| 5 | Though they cover more than 70 per cent of the Earth 's surface , the rocks of the sea floor are virtually inaccessible . |
| 6 | For a start it is far larger — 71 per cent of the earth 's surface is sea , only 29 per cent dry land . |
| 7 | As defined by present mean sea level the continents account for 29 per cent of the Earth 's surface area and the oceans 71 per cent , but if the break of slope represented on the global hypsometric curve is used the figure for the continents is nearer 37 per cent . |
| 8 | The crust , therefore , is an extremely thin surface layer representing only about 0.5 per cent of the Earth 's radius . |
| 9 | On the basis of an estimated 10 per cent of the Earth 's surface currently being part of a hot-spot swell it has been calculated that on average hot-spot epeirogeny should affect a particular area of crust about every 600 Ma . |
| 10 | Balling claims that the overall contribution from desertification caused by human activity is around 0.013 degrees per year , but admits that it can only be a significant factor for about 15 per cent of the Earth 's surface . |
| 11 | A report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) warns that 245 million acres — 10 per cent of the earth 's farmland — will lose much of its agricultural value over the next 20 years as a result of over-grazing , deforestation and poor land management . |
| 12 | Of these ninety-two , only twelve occur in proportions greater than 0.1 per cent in the Earth 's crust . |