"mortality" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The pigeon post faced a heavy mortality among the pigeons as many were lost on the operations.
- Replies: First, without careful data collection there is no reason to assume that an unusually hard winter means there has been "extremely heavy mortality" of insects.
- Another explanation for the skewing of sexual ratio might be that there is heavier mortality among females, particularly lactating ones, during times of drought.
- This was to cover the Priory's property and debts following "unusually heavy mortality amongst their cattle" and "the badness of the past few years".
- It is infectious and causes heavy mortality in the eastern oyster; survivors, however, develop resistance and can help propagate resistant populations.
- Numbers can be adversely affected by severe winters, which may cause heavy mortality, and cold wet summers, which reduce breeding success.
- One source blames the abbey's poverty on failed harvests and heavy mortality of their cattle.
- Many of the species are plant diseases of major economic importance, causing significant damage and (in some cases) heavy mortality in conifers.
- Most captured sharks are discarded, probably with heavy mortality.
- The desperate shortage of food and the breakdown of medical services resulted in heavy mortality, Catholicos Patriarch Leonid being among the dead.
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