Example sentences of "population of [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tightly-knit community , lying six miles south of Sheffield on the Derby coalfield , had a population of less than four thousand . |
| 2 | As breeding birds Little Grebes appear surprisingly scarce , the records for the years 1970 to 1976 indicate a population of less than 100 pairs . |
| 3 | ( Stewart Island is roughly twice the size of the Isle of Wight , but has a population of less than 500 souls ) Much more exciting though , is to rent a Cessna from Invercargill 's Douthland Aero Club , get CFI Chris Thompson to come along as safety pilot , and to show you which of the beaches he recommends as landing grounds , since Southern Air a little jealous of other operators using their own airfield in competition to their service . |
| 4 | The exception was the City of London with a population of less than 5,000 ( Herbert 1960:233 — 6 ) . |
| 5 | Even at the end of the nineteenth century it was overwhelmingly rural ; the largest town , Kurunagala , had a population of less than 6,500 . |
| 6 | In relation to size of authority , Bourdillon felt that a library authority serving a population of less than 30,000 population would find it difficult to achieve a reasonable standard of bookstock and service . |
| 7 | In another study , Johansen and Fuguitt ( 1984 ) from a sample of 572 of the 11,334 villages in the USA ( defined as a population of less than 2,500 in 1960 ) found that while only half of the villages had grown in the 1950s , two-thirds had grown in the 1970s , and that this growth was no longer restricted to the larger villages . |
| 8 | Western Pomerania had become almost entirely Germanised , and had a Polish population of less than 0.5 per cent . |
| 9 | " Hotel " is defined by s.139(1) as meaning ( a ) in towns and suburbs a house containing at least four apartments set apart exclusively for the sleeping accommodation of travellers , and ( b ) in rural districts and places of a population of less than 1,000 according to the most recent census a house containing two such apartments . |
| 10 | Find all towns in the state of Texas that have a population of more than 10 000 and are more than 50 kilometres from a railway . |
| 11 | As a result , Regional Railways is now holding discussions with every local authority with a population of more than 250,000 from Aberdeen to Plymouth . |
| 12 | The population of more than 300,000 at the time of Cook 's arrival had plummeted to less than 40,000 by the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | In this respect Nigeria may be the key reference point , because its enormous population of more than 100 million will continue to force it into constitutional experiments , because its press has seldom been effectively muzzled , and because its leaders have never acquired the absolute power of many neighbouring heads of state . |
| 14 | From 1 January 1923 the preparation of schemes was compulsory on all borough and district councils with a population of more than 20,000 . |
| 15 | At the time , there was much unease in my constituency because , although Gartree is reasonably isolated , it is only two or three miles from the centre of Market Harborough , with its population of more than 15,000 people . |
| 16 | Serbia in the ‘ wide ’ sense , including Vojvodina and Kosovo , has a resident population of more than 9 million , although less than 7 million of these are Serbs . |
| 17 | The report looks at 20 " megacities " with populations of more than 10 million . |
| 18 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 19 | Thus , it can be calculated from the figures that in 1951–52 over 72% of all WEA ‘ centres ’ in the Eastern District were in places with populations of less than 5,000 ; only 10% were in places with over 20,000 people . |
| 20 | Towns with populations of less than 200,000 are unlikely to receive such a charter although Cambridge , on account of its standing as a university town received city status by Royal Charter on the 21st March 1951 . |