(1) I think, and many other scientists think, it could be quite an important meeting point for seals coming from mainland Europe because it’s one of most eastern sandbanks of its type.
(2) Accommodation also available from £45 per person, based on four sharing Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset If you can be tempted to leave the spotless sands of Dorset's swankiest peninsula, there's plenty to do in the water.
(3) MH370 search: 'rogue pilot' theory still on Australian investigators' radar Read more The US television network NBC said the debris was found on a sandbank in the Mozambique Channel, between the African mainland and Madagascar.
(4) It is one of the most beautiful beaches in Brazil, and backed by Atlantic rainforest, with dunes, sandbanks, a lake and rocky coastline.
(5) A giant pump is working day and night, reclaiming land from the sandbanks and river beds, expanding the city in defiance of nature.
(6) If successful, it could see rich countries promise not only to cut their emissions but to stump up cash for poor nations to pay for the changes they'll need to protect their towns and villages from those effects of climate change already under way and too late to reverse (think houses on stilts on easily flooded sandbanks in Bangladesh).
(7) Malaysia’s transport minister, Liow Tiong Lai, has warned against “undue speculation” about the earlier find, a metre-long piece of metal discovered on the Paluma sandbank in the channel between the African mainland and Madagascar last weekend, but said there was a “high possibility” it came from a Boeing 777.
(8) The aerial survey enabled researchers to count seals on the outer sandbanks of the estuary where colonies of up to 120 seals were recorded in remote and undisturbed spots away from people and boats.
(9) The survey was timed to coincide with the annual seal moult, when harbour seals shuffle onto sandbanks to shed their coats and grow a new layer in time for the winter, making them easier to spot.
(10) The sandbank was several miles from Hest Bank, where the group were reported missing.
(11) Beans (adults £10, kids £5), a family business, has been running trips to the sandbanks at the far end of the harbour for more than 50 years.
(12) Steve Barratt, chairman of the Mudeford Sandbank Beach Hut Association, said: "Back in the 1980s, the beach huts would have sold for around £6,000 to £7,000.
(13) ZSL’s spotters take advantage of the seals’ moulting season in August, when they shuffle up sandbanks to shed their coat and grow a new one, making double-counting less likely.
(14) We wouldn’t want to see dredging in the pupping [breeding] times.” A petition has attracted nearly 10,000 signatures and last month actor Mark Rylance backed a campaign against the dredging of the sandbanks , which have been proposed for designation as a marine conservation zone .
(15) The portfolio includes more than 1,300 UK residential properties and assets such as a Sunningdale home famous for once entertaining the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and a £2m house located in Sandbanks, Dorset.
(16) The actor Mark Rylance has lent his support to a campaign to stop the dredging of a stretch of sandbanks off the Kent coast.
(17) Close to Ramsgate, these common seals are unfazed by daytrippers cruising by on boats, while those out at more remote sandbanks would take flight if humans approached.
(18) I would urge people for their safety to refrain from entering the sea.” Further west, the weather halted efforts to move the huge car carrier Hoegh Osaka – which was beached on a sandbank near Southampton last week with 1,500 cars on board – away from the busy shipping lane.
(19) Though Culatra's only a mile or so offshore, we sail the long way over to avoid sandbanks and shrimp nets.
(20) Several are under investigation or awaiting pickup by authorities, but one – a horizontal stabiliser, stencilled with the words “NO STEP” , which Gibson found on a sandbank in Mozambique in late February – is almost certainly from MH370.
Shipping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ship
(a.) Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns.
(a.) Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.
(n.) The act of one who, or of that which, ships; as, the shipping of flour to Liverpool.
(n.) The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.
(n.) Navigation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(2) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(3) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(4) There were members of the smuggling gang on the ship with walkie-talkies.
(5) Already Britain's electricity is becoming too dependent on gas brought in by ship through the Suez canal.
(6) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(7) The risk for gastric cancer and non-malignant respiratory disease among the workers of the coke shipping department was increased but the SMRs did not reach statistical significance.
(8) The plan to round up some business and ship away seemed sound.
(9) The US has stopped shipping military equipment out of Afghanistan , citing the risk to truckers from protests along part of the route in neighbouring Pakistan.
(10) Polish foreign affairs minister Radoslaw Sikorski has opposed the ships being handed over.
(11) The 61-year-old Canadian, who was one of the original founders of Greenpeace , was arrested last Sunday at Frankfurt airport at the request of Costa Rica, which wants to see him extradited over a 10-year-old charge of "violating ships traffic".
(12) I don’t do the social media myself, so who knows.” The Pentagon said the drone, also described as a “glider” or unmanned underwater vehicle, was deployed by civilian contractors aboard the USNS Bowditch, a scientific research ship.
(13) The main animal paramyxoviruses are parainfluenza 3 (agent of shipping fever) in cattle; NDV (cause of fowl pest) and Yucaipavirus in birds; Sendai and PVM in mice; Nariva virus in rodents; possibly bovinerespiratory syncytial virus; and SV5 and SV41 in monkeys.
(14) Vigils have been held in Cairo for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 as a French navy ship headed to join the deep-sea search in the Mediterranean for the main wreckage and flight recorders.
(15) The source of the first outbreak was monkeys shipped from Africa; the origin of the second episode is unclear.
(16) Ships should be able to sail directly over the north pole by the middle of this century, considerably reducing the costs of trade between Europe and China but posing new economic, strategic and environmental challenges for governments, according to scientists.
(17) Rob DiGiovanni, who heads a marine mammal rescue group on Long Island, said he was seeing "more evidence of ship strikes and that's definitely a concern".
(18) An improved membrane filtration procedure for use on board ship to enumerate Escherichia coli and Group D faecal streptococci in marine sediments is described.
(19) Official estimates suggest the number of small packages shipped into Europe more than quadrupled from 26m in 2000 to 115m two years ago.
(20) The survey ship has been used in the Gulf of Aden monitoring the Somali coastline, as well as scientific missions such as mapping the seabed of the Persian Gulf.