Sentences with phrase «hamlet than a town»

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I knocked on doors in every hamlet, village and town in the constituency and attended more rodeos, parades, town fairs and demolition derbies than I ever imagined existed.

For the first few decades of the 20th Century, the two towns remained rural hamlets, linked to Chicago more by rail than road.

Yet many neighbors said the development would tarnish the spirit of the hamlet, which is already more commercially built up than other town centers along the North Fork.

Anthropologist Michael Heckenberger of the University of Florida teamed with the local Kuikuro people in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso to uncover 28 towns, villages and hamlets that may have supported as many as 50,000 people within roughly 7,700 square miles (20,000 square kilometers) of forest — an area slightly smaller than New Jersey.

Both beaches are sheltered coves, hamlets rather than towns, offering safe swimming and languid days.

A more glamorous town than other more low - key hamlets, like Nature's Valley and Storms River, Plettenberg Bay serves as a seaside playground for the more affluent, and as a post-matric party destination (you'll want to avoid town during the annual Plett Rage Student Festival in early December).