Home to 120 species of fish and at least that many species of birds, the lake has shrunk dramatically in the last four decades due to the increased water from an expanding population usage and low rainfall.

Ivory usage in the last thirty years has moved towards mass production of souvenirs and jewellery.

This usage was confirmed during the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries.

In the Prose Edda, and a single poem in the Poetic Edda, the event is referred to as Ragnarök or Ragnarøkkr ( Old Norse " Fate of the Gods " or " Twilight of the Gods " respectively ), a usage popularized by 19th century composer Richard Wagner with the title of the last of his Der Ring des Nibelungen operas, Götterdämmerung ( 1876 ).

The last known construction at Stonehenge was about 1600 BC ( see ' Y and Z Holes '), and the last usage of it was probably during the Iron Age.

In some dialects of Spoken Finnish it is common to drop the last vowel and thus the usage of elative resembles that of Estonian, for example " talost ' ".

This last phrase was routinely slurred to " ampersand " and the term crept into common English usage by around 1837.

BBC World Service, the last of the BBC websites to use RealAudio, discontinued its usage in March 2011.

If instead of assuming a constant rate of usage, the assumption of a constant rate of growth of annually is made, the resource will instead last

The current holder of the title Margrave of Baden, Duke of Zähringen is Maximilian, Margrave of Baden ( b. 1933 ), a grandson of the last chancellor of the German Empire, Prince Max von Baden, who seems to have revived the Zähringen title after it apparently had not been in official usage since the death of Berthold V. Another branch were the Dukes of Teck, descendants of Duke Conrad's son Adalbert, whose line became extinct in 1439.

Rated for a maximum thermal output of 150 megawatts, the reactors were designed to last 15 years with normal usage.

The transmitter antenna only needs to be 10 to 20 cm long, and receiver power usage is much lower ; batteries can therefore last longer.

Ford's last operation at the factory, the production of tractors at its Model T plant, was discontinued in 1973, and a year later the entire property was sold to a private developer for general industrial usage.

The terms are frequently abbreviated to the numeronyms i18n ( where 18 stands for the number of letters between the first i and last n in internationalization, a usage coined at DEC in the 1970s or 80s ) and L10n respectively, due to the length of the words.

This last is common in American English but is very rare in British usage.

The last usage is common in poetry and creative literature.

The usage of F minor for the last movement was a dramatic break from conventional usage.

is an abbreviation where the last two letters of the word are not present ; thus, it always takes a period ( or full stop ) in both British and American usage.

This last usage can sometimes be confusing, because the term " flat-head " is also used to describe a screw with a flat top, designed to be installed in a countersunk hole.

In its most popular usage, " Champ Car " was the last name given to a governing body formerly known as Championship Auto Racing Teams, or CART, founded in 1979 by team owners who disagreed with the USAC.

In some languages, titles may even be inserted between a first and last name ( for example, Graf in German, Cardinal in Catholic usage or clerical titles such as Archbishop ).

A filter of this type is generally inexpensive, and would last for approximately six months, dependent on usage.

A main filter will generally last for approximately two years, dependent on usage.

His official term expired last summer.

Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.

She had been sentenced to 180 years in prison, but former Gov. Stratton commuted her term to 75 years, making her eligible for parole, as one of his last acts in office.

The term " last rites " refers to administration to a dying person not only of this sacrament but also of Penance and Holy Communion, the last of which, when administered in such circumstances, is known as " Viaticum ", a word whose original meaning in Latin was " provision for the journey ".

This last term (" von Neumann machine ") is less specific and also refers to a completely unrelated computer architecture proposed by von Neumann, so its use is discouraged where accuracy is important.

If every term of every definiens must itself be defined, " where at last should we stop?

The last three years of Eisenhower's second term in office were ones of relatively good health.

From his first composition to his last, he rejected the idea of musical development, in the strict definition of this term: the intertwining of different themes in a development section of a sonata form.

The last term can also be written as μ < sub > i </ sub > dn < sub > i </ sub > ( with dn < sub > i </ sub > the number of moles of component i added to the system and, in this case, μ < sub > i </ sub > the molar chemical potential ) or as μ < sub > i </ sub > dm < sub > i </ sub > ( with dm < sub > i </ sub > the mass of component i added to the system and, in this case, μ < sub > i </ sub > the specific chemical potential ).

In the GNU / Linux naming controversy the FSF argues for the term GNU / Linux because GNU was a longstanding project to develop a free operating system, of which they say the kernel was the last missing piece.

Since family names are normally written last in European societies ( except in Hungary ), the term last name is commonly used for family name, while in East Asia ( with vertical writing ) the family name may be referred to as upper name ( as in Japanese ).

A frigate () is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.

In 2003, Meijer stopped resisting his extradition to the Netherlands, and was transferred to a Dutch prison to serve the last part of his term.

This last possibility seems to be supported by the 2007 oral biography of Thompson, which states that the term is taken from a song by Booker ; though, it does not explain why Thompson or Cardoso would have chosen the term to describe Thompson's journalism.

This last phrase ( from 1 Timothy 6: 20 ) is the origin of the title of the book by Irenaeus, On the Detection and Overthrow of False Knowledge, that contains the adjective gnostikos, which is the source for the 17th Century English term " Gnosticism.

The term was a portmanteau of the governor's last name and the word salamander.

While Constantinople experienced a succession of councils alternately approving and condemning doctrine concerning hesychasm considered as identified with Palamism ( the last of the five senses in which, according to Kallistos Ware, the term is used ), the Western Church held no council in which to make a pronouncement on the issue, and the word " hesychasm " does not appear in the Enchiridion Symbolorum et Definitionum ( Handbook of Creeds and Definitions ), the collection of Roman Catholic teachings originally compiled by Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger.

Polk was the last strong pre – Civil War president, and he is the earliest of whom there are surviving photographs taken during a term in office.

Cannon declined to run in the 1922 Congressional election, and retired at the end of his last term in 1923 ; he was featured on the cover of the first issue of Time magazine on the last day of his last term in office.