mainland
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These reforms include plans to reduce the number of mainland health boards from 14 to two, which leading doctors have opposed.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
The government deemed the risk worthwhile considering the millions of lives projected to be lost in an invasion of the Japanese mainland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
A medical evacuation helicopter crash off Catalina Island that left three dead highlights the many risks of emergency transport to the mainland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Many of his members moved their factories across the border into mainland China in the 1980s, attracted by cheaper land and labour.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
A car alarm on the mainland, or some obnoxious kid fooling around with an air horn.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
Zoologists provide evidence that fewer animal species live on islands than on nearby mainlands.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The Berlin-based ethnographer Alexa Clay, who studied change agents in her book, “The Misfit Economy,” talks about mainlands, islands and peninsulas.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2016
The marsupials of Australia, the finches on the Galápagos, and many species on the Hawaiian Islands are all found nowhere else but on their island, yet display distant relationships to ancestral species on mainlands.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
The British had decided to get the pro-Axis revolt there in hand while the invasion of Crete gave them a breather on Middle Eastern mainlands.
From Time Magazine Archive
As an afterthought, he added, “I think,” above the page, as if to signal his last point of departure from the mainlands of biological and theological thought.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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