Example sentences of "the [num] census [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the 1971 Census asked a question about employment status , it found that about 40 per cent more people regarded themselves as unemployed than the official statistics showed . |
| 2 | The 1971 census showed that the relevant postcode sector held almost the highest proportion ( 23% ) of residents not born in Scotland of any sector in the rural high oil worker category , and indeed one of the highest in Scotland . |
| 3 | What is clear , however , is the widespread nature of the trend , not only in the USA which the 1980 Census confirmed , as shown in Figure 5.1 ( Cruickshank , 1981 ) , but also in Europe where Fielding ( 1982 ) concluded that in nearly all the countries of western Europe counterurbanization has replaced urbanization . |
| 4 | Most Soviet citizens , however , appeared to have remained loyal to their native language in their domestic and family life , and there was little sign of the disappearance of at least the major Soviet languages , most of which were still spoken by the great majority of the nationalities in question ( the 1979 census found that 62 per cent of non-Russians were fluent in that language , but that 93 per cent of the population identified their national language as their native one ; the 1989 census found that the reported level of knowledge of Russian had actually fallen among at least two national groups , the Uzbeks and Lithuanians ) . |
| 5 | The new TTWA boundaries will be calculated using information on commuting from the 1991 census calculated using information on commuting from the 1991 census of population . |
| 6 | The 1981 census enumerated 19,493,000 households in Great Britain living in the community . |
| 7 | The 1981 census found that compared with the national average of 14% , inner urban areas have particularly heavy concentrations of lone parent families . |
| 8 | The 1981 Census found broadly similar patterns in the overall proportions of elderly persons living in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 9 | It is not easy to measure at local scale because the 1981 Census did not contain an ethnicity question , but an impression can be gained from birth-place data in the Census . |
| 10 | While the 1981 Census put the proportion of all families that are one parent families at just over 14 per cent , the average in Inner London was 26.6 per cent . |
| 11 | The 1981 census showed that nearly 97 per cent of people of pensionable age were thus accommodated ; while the recent dramatic growth of private residential care may increase the proportion in institutional care , the fact remains that they will remain a minute fraction of the elderly population . |
| 12 | Comparisons of the 1981 estimates ( derived using the 1971 Census as a starting point ) with the results from the 1981 Census showed some moderately large discrepancies . |
| 13 | The 1897 census had listed 20,000 kustari for the six Belorussian provinces of that period . |
| 14 | This is a particularly cruel irony because as the 1911 census revealed doctors had the smallest families of all categories of occupations . |
| 15 | Population remained static during the 1960s ; the 1966 census showed a total of 55,681 living in the Londonderry County Borough . |
| 16 | The 1961 census found 18.9 per cent of all elderly persons living alone . |
| 17 | The 1961 Census presented small-area statistics for the first time , repeated at a 10 per cent sample for 1966 . |
| 18 | Quantitatively , they are by no means negligible : the 1982 census indicated some 402,000 people originated from the departements and territoires d'outre-mer ( of whom two-thirds were from the Caribbean ) and they have been one of the fastest-growing migrant groups , escaping the immigration controls on foreign nationals imposed during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 19 | On other , more inclusive counts there were not a hundred or so nationalities in the USSR ( the 1989 census recorded 128 ) but as many as 400 , or even 800 . |
| 20 | Most Soviet citizens , however , appeared to have remained loyal to their native language in their domestic and family life , and there was little sign of the disappearance of at least the major Soviet languages , most of which were still spoken by the great majority of the nationalities in question ( the 1979 census found that 62 per cent of non-Russians were fluent in that language , but that 93 per cent of the population identified their national language as their native one ; the 1989 census found that the reported level of knowledge of Russian had actually fallen among at least two national groups , the Uzbeks and Lithuanians ) . |
| 21 | The 1851 census revealed that in Britain for the first time more people lived in towns than in the country and that trend continued . |
| 22 | An analysis of the birthplaces of all the heads of households recorded in the 1851 census showed that 57 per cent were born outside Ashbourne . |
| 23 | The 1988 census had recorded Bhutan 's population as 1,370,000 , of whom 45 per cent were ethnic Nepalese , but in the following year King Jigme claimed that all but 28,000 Nepalese were illegal immigrants . |