(n.) The quality or state of being northerly; direction toward the north.
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Northerly
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the north; toward the north, or from the north; northern.
(adv.) Toward the north.
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(1) These findings from 2 widely separated little Japanese islands constitute the parasite's most northerly records to date.
(2) A radar station at Saxa Vord , now a holiday resort on the UK's most northerly populated island of Unst in Shetland, was down to be hit by a three-megaton bomb.
(3) The players Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ed Miliband’s Commons bloc could still be the biggest, in which case a straightforward first call would be to Alasdair McDonnell, leader of Norther Ireland’s SDLP.
(4) This extreme coincided with exceptionally strong northerly winds, which were followed by an abrupt southerly change.
(5) The northerly region has become a new frontier for exploration since global warming caused ice to melt, oil escalated in value to its current $114 a barrel and the US Geological Survey concluded that almost a quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and gas reserves may lie in the Arctic.
(6) The ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has also won several local elections in the country’s western and norther states in the past month, despite the ongoing cash shortages.
(7) But it will get worse – by midweek, northerly or north-westerly winds will make us feel chilly, and by Thursday and Friday there are likely to be widespread heavy and thundery showers.
(8) This is the most northerly of 14 localities now known for this species in the Pacific northwest.
(9) A disease characterized by segments of ischaemic small intestine has been recognized in norther Thailand over the past decade.
(10) Weatherzone predicted a “cool change will flush the heat out” of the region at the weekend, however “unfortunately the respite will be short-lived, with warm northerly winds redeveloping across eastern Australia from the beginning of next week”.
(11) However, in more northerly climates, photoperiodic control is crucial in avoiding precocious development in the highly variable climatic conditions of early spring.
(12) The outer Thames estuary would have been relatively sheltered from northerly offshore winds.
(13) An electric storm as people arrive at the more northerly of the Reading and Leeds festival's two sites is an appropriate beginning to what is traditionally the loudest, most tattooed, raucous of the UK festivals.
(14) A spokeswoman for the Met Office said on Friday: "Last night saw northerly winds drag cold air from quite a long way north over the UK.
(15) Blood serum tocopherol was determined in 44 calves born in the spring from cows that had been fed either timothy grass silage or timothy hay produced in Norther Ontario.
(16) Very early snowfalls were noted across parts of the US last weekend, with northerly winds delivering the earliest snow ever recorded to South Carolina.
(17) Moving into Honduras, with the sweet sounds of the Guatemalan marimbas floating in on the northerly breeze, we find Café Guancasco taking stock as the new century begins.
(18) Twenty years after a desperate banking crisis sparked a deep recession, this most northerly member of the eurozone was hailed on Wednesday as an example to follow by Mario Monti , Italy's prime minister.
(19) Factors such as a Northerly geographical situation, low temperatures, the long duration of the disease, improvement in diagnostic methods and a high level of awareness have all influenced this high number of cases found in an area of 200,000 inhabitants.
(20) One of these is a cline in D. auraria's phase-shifting response to light, which steadily weakens in a succession of more northerly strains.