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Plateau in sentence

187 examples of Plateau in a sentence

It may be just a plateau, something else.
On the coast of Northern Ireland, a vast plateau of basalt slabs and columns called the Giant’s Causeway stretches into the ocean.
High on the Antarctic plateau, over 10,000 feet, it's very windy, very cold, very dry, we were exhausted.
It's a huge network under the surface of the tepui plateau, and in only ten days of expedition, we explored more than 20 kilometers of cave passages.
Sometimes it increased very rapidly, then there was a plateau, then it increased rapidly.
And when they had reached a plateau of performance, we did a lesion in the motor cortex corresponding to the hand motion.
So when we were sure that the monkey had reached his plateau of spontaneous recovery, we implanted his own cells.
There are fewer and fewer people who are still available that you might infect, and then you get the plateau of the curve, and you get this classic sigmoidal curve.
The cattlemen didn't want the poor sheep herders on the land to compete for forage on this cold, windswept plateau.
Harris and his caravan eventually reaches the Great Inland Sea, located atop a gigantic plateau that seems to run halfway across Africa....hang on, aren't seas, lakes and other watery places generally located in low-lying areas?? Nevermind, it is just one of many anomalies in the John Derek universe.
A man seeking oil brings a drilling crew to the plateau.
Where most of the other top shows on this site have found a formula that works, that brings in the viewers and the dollars and have stuck like glue to that formula (Prison Break, 24, and Desperate Housewives come to mind) - LOST takes a different route where even after achieving that plateau and that winning formula, the team of executive producers are brave enough to completely reinvent the show in order to service their higher goal of compelling storytelling.
"Mountain Patrol: Kekexili" is Chinese director Lu Chuan's second feature, set in the gorgeous titular Tibetan plateau where Tibetan antelopes were and are still being poached and mercilessly shot with their numbers dwindling from about a million to around 10,000 in the 1990s.
"This was the first screen adaptation of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story of prehistoric creatures still alive on a remote Amazon plateau.
An expedition is lead (sic) by Professor Challenger and consists of a newspaper reporter, a big-game hunter, and his servant as well as the daughter of the plateau's discoverer, who is still stranded in this uncharted land.
It was just one week ago that I started and completed reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Lost World,' his stunning 1912 account of an expedition that discovers prehistoric life on an isolated South American plateau.
Set in stunning scenery on the titular Tibetan plateau, "Mountain Patrol: Kekexili" recreates an extraordinary grassroots effort in the 1990's by supremely dedicated idealists to stop poaching of the Tibetan antelope -- mano to mano with no satellite phones or navigation equipment or much in the way of weapons.
An expedition of diamond hunters is dropped in the Siberian plateau with the mission of discovering a rumoured diamond vein.
Oh, I forgot to mention the discussion of the concept of Peak Oil: that once aggregate world oil output reaches its maximum peak, subsequent recovery will plateau and then begin a permanent decline.
Too much sugar leads to rot and as the Care Bears use their plateau to infect the 'savage' woodland creatures with their semi psychotic care ideology, the creatures lose all hope of developing any sense of identity.
They argue that the technology engine that has driven mankind from one economic plateau to the next over the past 200 years is running out of steam.
Indeed, all of Asia’s major rivers, except the Ganges, originate in the Tibetan plateau.
But China is now pursuing major inter-basin and inter-river water transfer projects on the Tibetan plateau, which threatens to diminish international-river flows into India and other co-riparian states.
This challenge is most striking on trans-boundary rivers in Asia, where China has established a hydro-supremacy unparalleled on any continent by annexing the starting places of major international rivers – the Tibetan plateau and Xinjiang – and working to reengineer cross-border flows through dams, reservoirs, barrages, irrigation networks, and other structures.
These three international rivers originate on the Tibetan plateau, whose bounteous water resources have become a magnet for Chinese planners.
On the night of April 15, a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) platoon stealthily intruded near the China-India-Pakistan tri-junction, established a camp 19 kilometers (12 miles) inside Indian-controlled territory, and presented India’s government with the potential loss of a strategically vital 750-square-kilometer high-altitude plateau.
In fact, the government inexplicably replaced regular army troops with border police in 2010 to patrol the mountain-ringed plateau into which the PLA has now intruded.
Known as Depsang, the plateau lies astride an ancient silk route connecting Yarkand in Xinjiang to India’s Ladakh region through the Karakoram Pass.
As Skidelsky rightly pointed out, confidence recovered from its low point in the first quarter of 2009, and reached a plateau in the first half of 2010.
In other words, China’s potential growth rate has settled onto a significantly lower plateau.
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