Sentences with phrase «few inhabitants»

My parents were one of the first families to come to this community and there were very few inhabitants.»

As the day turns into night, the soundscape, composed by Mikhail Karikis, moves from the sounds of animals and everyday activities of the few inhabitants to modulations of radio waves emitted by pulsars, or dying stars, which still reach us after the star has died.

Spiders, parrots, songbirds, chickens, lobsters, king crabs, dogs, chimps, pigs, seals, orangutans — these are only a few inhabitants of the menagerie that appears in Rosemarie Trockel's work.

It may be big, but there's actually very few inhabitants on there.

Kolombangara is heavily forested, with few inhabitants.

Similarly the Russians, with their political capital at Moscow, moved eastward across the vast northern plains of Eurasia and before the end of the seventeenth century had reached the Pacific, but their new territories had few inhabitants.

It worked in the case of the city of Sydney without causing much environmental impact while the city had relatively few inhabitants.

Small, concentrated districts like the Scillies and Gibraltar will report before then, as may the City of London (which has very few inhabitants because it's all office space), but these are sideshows to the main event.

Second, a house with fewer inhabitants is less energy efficient and consumes more resources per person than one that is home to a larger brood.

Not exact matches

But killing off their few fellow human inhabitants may not be the right answer for the characters in the long run in a world full of the undead.

To my mind, it accords better with what we know about the laws impressed upon matter by the Creator that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual... There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one...»

You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land... my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.

The vision of this other order has practical implications for the reordering of the world system for the sake of all of its inhabitants instead of the exploitation of the many for the enrichment of the few.

In contrast with the Lutheran and Reformed, few of the many movements embraced in radical Protestantism aspired to include in their membership all the inhabitants of a political unit.

They arrived just a few months after a treaty with Native Americans made the land available and moved its original inhabitants to reservations.

A city of 20,000 inhabitants would only have a few phone stores in the town center.

The Tory lily - livered idea that English voters should be penalised to keep a few fringe inhabitants of West and North Britain happy is bad politics.

After a few days, I began to see the charm of the town, its stores, and its friendly inhabitants.

Their inhabitants had few teeth.

Then, it was brought by migrants who almost completely supplanted the island's existing inhabitants — the mysterious people who had built Stonehenge — within a few hundred years.

Federal agencies govern large tracts of land in a part of the country where human inhabitants have long been few and far apart.

In a few million years, any inhabitants of planets around the stars will have a grand view of the outside of the Milky Way, something no human being will probably ever experience.»

Roughly speaking, cities with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants are more at risk.

A few months ago, she surprised me with an interest in the loudest inhabitant of our kitchen countertop — my blender.

A Russian study of the inhabitants of the province of Georgia, where many live to 100 years and a few to age 150, revealed that many of these centenarians were beekeepers who often ate raw, unprocessed honey with all its «impurities,» that is, with the pollen.

There are a few other inhabitants of your home — your adorable cats!

Manchester, one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas is home to over 2.6 million inhabitants, carries the flag as the «capital of the north», embracing change like few other cities in Europe.

In its convincing portrayal of a situation where a rusty nail is as lethal as an unexploded bomb, and the few remaining inhabitants seem — much like the audience — more likely to die of stress than anything else, the movie rocks.

You'd think that the futuristic and militaristic invasions right in the city streets would gather at least a few spectators, if not the majority of the inhabitants of the entire city.

Yet in all my struggles procuring peace in the past, few quests left me feeling as connected and caring towards the wellbeing of its otherworldly inhabitants than the post-apocalyptic romp that is Ever Oasis.

Rescuing him from the clutches of his misguided judgment and freeing the oppressed inhabitants (while avoiding being turned into stone by the wand - wielding queen), will require a little magic from Aslan... and result in a few battles between good and evil.

Synopsis: Some of Sin City's most hard - boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.

uuuu Exiled by his 1950s political foes to a fishing village off the Italian coast, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda strikes up an unexpected friendship with a meek postman who's one of the island's few literate inhabitants.

Both «The Rider» and «The Florida Project» draw us into worlds that few of us have known, and whose inhabitants have known little else.

Many great American films could be classified as Southern Gothic, but whatever the reason the last few years in particular have seen an explosion of films from the US focusing on the rural Southern states and their inhabitants.

Upon gathering a wealth of resources, opening some new shortcuts, recruiting more inhabitants, and crafting a few top - notch weapons and gadgets; completing the next tough story - based mission that you've been stuck on feels extremely satisfying.

A few hundred miles from Fargo, deep in the heartland of North Dakota, lies Leith, a town with just 14 inhabitants.

Few kinds of films get my blood pumping faster than one where the supposed safe haven is turned against it's inhabitants.

Text: A Winter Walk The author writes in the first person, describing a long winter walk through a wooded area with few human inhabitants.

And since St. Louis now has fewer than 350,000 inhabitants, he deduced, charter schools can not continue to exist.

A lawyer for the state's education department responded a few hours later, telling Beffa that another section of the law, which defines a metropolitan school district as «any school district the boundaries of which are coterminous with the limits of any city which is not within a county,» puts St. Louis into the first part of the statute — which, he claimed, would exempt the city from the requirement of 350,000 inhabitants.

Patagonia, Argentina — This rugged but insanely beautiful corner of South America, the mountainous Patagonia region that spreads into both Argentina and Chile, is nearly the size of Texas yet contains fewer than 2 million inhabitants and is home to some of nature's most mystifying marvels.

The narrative sections of this book document a journey to a remarkable place: an isolated Middle Eastern village whose inhabitants «speak» sign language — a language unlike any other in the world, witnessed by few outsiders and never before described.

The author did a superb job of describing the disintegration of Germany and the horrors its inhabitants were subjected to through the last few months of the war.

Since women are often the victims of these types of crimes, we ranked states higher that had fewer incidents per 100,000 inhabitants, as calculated by the FBI.

Likewise, the necessity to replace this material every few years is equally unchallenged — a change makes the tank owner and the aquatic inhabitants happier.

Buy a snorkel and mask and get up close and personal with a few of the marine inhabitants of Palawan.

After the nickel mine closed, a few years ago, all inhabitants left the village.

Hamlets of no more than a few hundred inhabitants are over 40 kilometers apart.

In typically Spanish style, Larache's inhabitants congregate en masse in the city's streets for the paseo, or evening stroll, making the town an agreeable and pleasant place to spend a few days.