noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dense population (= a lot of people living close together )
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Britain has a particular problem because of dense population.
a migrant population (= the migrants who live in a particular place )
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The town has a large migrant popluation.
a population explosion
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The decision not to plant the fields led to a population explosion in rabbits.
ageing population (= with more old people than before )
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Europe’s ageing population
control group/population/sample etc
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A control group of non-smoking women was compared to four groups of women smokers.
population density
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areas of high population density
the human population
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The UN estimates that the human population will reach 9.1 billion by 2050.
the immigrant population
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The immigrant population increased rapidly during the 1970s.
the prison population (= all the prisoners in a country )
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The government wants to reduce the size of the prison population.
working population
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A smaller working population will have to support a growing number of retired people.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adult
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The results clearly show a high prevalence of oesophagitis in the adult asthmatic population .
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Out-migrants from rural areas are predominantly the younger members of the adult population .
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The conventional wisdom in the gay community is that 10 percent of the adult population is gay or lesbian.
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Over a fifth of the adult population owned shares in late 1988, contrasted with only 6 percent in early 1984.
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A recent United Nations report says that 90% of the adult population are literate.
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Half of the adult population never fully develops formal operational reasoning.
ageing
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It has an ageing population and social security laws which will generate a massive public expenditure burden and necessitate tax increases.
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They calculate that the ageing population is adding 1 percent annually to health service costs.
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How can health services be restructured to meet the needs of ageing populations more appropriately?
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This is not just because of the enormous scale of the demands which an ageing population puts on caring organisations.
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Does it therefore follow that an ageing population inevitably implies some impoverishment, if not among elderly, then among younger people?
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An ageing population is both less productive and a more costly burden on the health services.
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The fact is no government can meet the insatiable demand for ever more sophisticated medical technology by an ageing population .
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The majority of holdings in the uplands of Great Britain are farmed by owner-occupiers with an ageing population of farmers.
black
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Unlike Britain, the black population in the United States is as indigenous as the white.
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Between 1940 and 1960 the black population of Watts increased eightfold.
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Even as the black population ballooned, whites kept control of the City Council.
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Faced with the problems of waging war against the Union, they had the additional task of controlling a large black population .
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As with other areas, global comparisons between black and white populations hide differences within the black population.
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There are also clear differences within the black population .
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By singling out the black population for a special history month makes all other races feel slighted.
civilian
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But it was not solely the irregular Hutu extremist forces and the Mayi-Mayi that persecuted the civilian population .
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These organizations employed about 10 percent of the civilian working population of the United States.
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Even more so, the detailed provisions on protection of the civilian population restate, build upon and extend previous formulations.
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There you have the original civilian population of cyberspace.
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We had to withdraw into the hills, taking the civilian population with us.
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Besides, war nowadays is waged by virtually invulnerable professionals against extremely vulnerable civilian populations .
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Many Church leaders criticized the military for its attacks on civilian populations .
elderly
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As Table 5.3 shows there is a diversity between studies in the age taken as defining the elderly population .
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Current projections anticipate: Between 1991 and 2001 the 75+ age group will grow from 44% to 48% of the elderly population .
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The institutional population , as Chapter 2 illustrated, is a very elderly population.
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Yet the problems of rehabilitating the largely elderly resident hospital populations remained unsolved.
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These and other factors combined to give the elderly population a new and high profile in post-war public debate and social research.
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They were to retain a commitment to sessional work at Powick, with the elderly population , under the reformed system.
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Many discussions of the elderly population include women of 60+.
entire
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So, too, was the entire population of Théovard-sur-Mer.
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For programs affecting the health and safety of the entire population a single average value serves well.
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The entire population had starved to death.
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It would require testing of the entire population which is unnecessary, unmanageable and costly.
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Lack of control over these had led to health hazards for the entire population , rich and poor.
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Should the United States enact some health plan that covers the entire population ?
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But the danger is still there as long as there are enough weapons to kill the entire population of the world many times over.
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The current tuberculosis epidemic, which threatens the entire population with antibiotic-resistant strains, is the result of one such foolish cutback.
general
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Higher percentages of the elderly than of the general adult population live in accommodation built before 1919 that is often poorly maintained.
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For the general population , beta carotene is not a magic bullet.
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The applicability of such data derived from uranium miners to the general population is central to the radon issue.
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The basic education level of the general population has risen dramatically in recent decades.
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A total of 1272 men from the general population and 2099 retired coal miners aged 50-75 years took part in the study.
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It is believed that up to 20 percent of the general population has this condition.
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As a whole group they are in relative or absolute poverty, in contrast to the general adult population of working age.
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Sure, there are people using illegal substances in the Olympics, just as there are those among the general population .
high
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The heterogeneity of proliferative patterns found within the high risk population used for this study is not surprising.
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No amount of inside organization or outside aid can overwhelm a high population growth rate.
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Counties with low population density have sparse shading while counties with high population density have dark shading.
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It was passed before the four Republican governors whose states have the highest immigrant population had arrived for the meeting.
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Forest Gate in particular had a high population of clerical and professional workers.
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The social factors are also similar, including high rural populations , small landholdings and limited opportunities for alternative occupations.
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El Salvador has suffered from one of the highest rates of population growth in the under-developed world.
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There are barriers to a free movement of people from areas of high to low population pressure.
human
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One-third of the world's human population lives on land that is liable to be inundated if the seas rise.
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Such belief will spread rapidly throughout human populations .
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Outline the problems met with in designing a model to simulate changes in the size and structure of a human population .
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The social structures for coping with human population collapse are nearly nil.
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That is to say, within 100 years the human population will have quadrupled.
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Trichloroethene, a probable human carcinogen, can cause liver damage and genetic mutations in both human and animal populations .
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It is often seen in nature, but becomes much more obvious when natural hazards are removed in captive and human populations .
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The Colorado beetle spreads over a potato crop and a human population starves.
indigenous
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A particularly important element of his study relates to the indigenous population of the region, who have land rights.
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These more remote areas are also those with the highest percentages of indigenous population .
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This island will be the scene of many official celebrations in October 1992: its indigenous population was wiped out long ago.
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The indigenous population decreased in alarming proportions.
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This is not catering for the indigenous population of Ayrshire and Arran.
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The indigenous population seemed very friendly.
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This system prevailed over a colony whose territorial boundaries were not determined by the pre-colonial boundaries recognised by the indigenous populations .
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In fact, the indigenous population probably had more influence than most historians believe.
large
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Effective though such techniques may be when goat numbers are low, they make little impact on a large population .
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Faced with the problems of waging war against the Union, they had the additional task of controlling a large black population .
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As people lived longer and the death rate fell. a larger population was able to persist.
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Besides proximity to a large population of consumers, the other advantage of the new store is greater efficiency.
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Thus, improved health in poor societies can lead to larger population , greater poverty, and eventually deterioration in health.
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To offer only one alternative, total abstention, is to exclude a large population in need of services.
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The hazel coppices are particularly favoured by the large Sussex Nightingale population .
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The idea is to gather data from a subset that reflects the most interesting characteristics of the larger population .
local
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In the 1800s most fishermen were after whales, until their coastal net fishery wiped out local populations .
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The Grand Army had problems enough without alienating the local population .
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The local bird population will appreciate them too.
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These transient colonialists dictated their needs, and the local populations in general complied.
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Surprisingly, he could not find out from local sources the population , size or exact borders of the country.
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Was there a change of mood, an ideological change of heart amongst the local population ?
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Recipients of good schemes had access to local community facilities available to the local population at large.
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Watchful conservationists will make sure that baiters who've decimated the local badger population won't get their hands on these as well.
native
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Nevertheless, Sapaudia was divided up between the Burgundians and the native population .
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The native population was either driven back or dominated.
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By 1640, 100,000 planters had arrived in Ireland when the native population numbered only one million inhabitants.
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In other words, the very same trucks that have terrorized their native population for decades.
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Early colonists ravaged native populations with syphilis and typhoid.
rapid
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Reckless economic development and rapid population growth threaten the world's fragile environment.
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Life in Cairo often manages to work even under the oppressive condi-tions of poverty and rapid population growth.
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Congestion and land hunger were particularly acute in Lewis, because of the rapid population increase.
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But with rapid population growth, all the negative effects of poverty and ill-conceived government policies are magnified.
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They partly justified this by an eye upon the too rapid growth of population in some countries.
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The supply of food has been affected by rapid population growth as well.
rural
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By 1951 rural population was on the increase, a trend that has continued throughout the postwar period.
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Unemployment among the rural and urban population is on the upswing.
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The danger is that current rural housing policies will produce a polarization of the rural population .
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Even the smallest county town could become the Mecca of the surplus rural population .
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With rising rural population and the end of the cereal boom, farm wages away from industrial areas simply stagnated.
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Parts of the land area have more specific handicaps and are characterised by having a declining rural population .
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The rural population had declined from 38 percent in 1979 to 34 percent.
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The ever-increasing flow of scientific and technological advances is of little significance to a rural population living at or below subsistence level.
small
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Gene loss might then be very small and the population will soon reach sustainable levels, or explode.
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In recent years there have been reports of a small remnant population in New Brunswick.
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Their world was small and their population large.
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Most studies have investigated senile dementia in relatively small populations .
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Obviously, the smaller the identified population the more manageable such a proposal would be.
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So, to minimise the chances of this, smaller populations require larger sampling ratios.
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With a smaller population than London, New York City has a considerably larger police force.
total
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Discussion Our screening programme covered 0.77% of the total population of Tayside.
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In 1986, people older than 65 made up 14 percent of the total population .
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The Moguls can have made very little impression on the total population however.
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Nationally, illegal immigrants compose 1. 9 percent of the total population .
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Aboriginal women in that age group have death rates around nine times those of the total female population .
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The number found breeding successfully in any year is small compared to the total population , for example only 20-25 pairs in 1971.
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In 1977, 24 million households, with a total population of 114 million, each had less than 0.4 hectares of land.
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First, fluoridation will raise the average steady state or plateau level of ionic fluoride in the blood throughout the total population .
urban
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The apparent increasing prevalence of depression and mental-health disorders in ageing and socially fragmented urban populations .
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But many others in fast-lane urban populations seemed to grow more jaded and extreme as they grew older.
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Between 1850 and 1914 population doubled, urban population tripled and national income more than tripled.
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The rapidly increasing urban population has placed an impossible strain on the provision of housing.
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With the urban population growing towards 320 million by the year 2000, social and political tensions are likely to increase.
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We recommend immediate large-scale immunisation of the urban population , as well as tightened surveillance and appropriate vector control.
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Surveys in the 1970s showed that 40 percent of Britain's urban population suffered from traffic-induced noise.
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The beat was the site where police control of the urban population was felt most acutely.
white
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The conference is seen by some as part of a continuing campaign of racial denigration against the country's white population .
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The white population around the borders of the reservation was growing and expanding.
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Only in the homogeneous white population of the United Provinces of the River Plate did independence seem secure.
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Numerous programs for increasing the white population were debated in the colonial assembly, but no resolution was adopted.
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Their policies drew little disapproval from sports authorities or the rest of the white population .
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Just over 81 percent of all minimum wage workers are white in a population that is 84 percent white overall.
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On the one hand, the white population needs them to work while, on the other, their presence is resented.
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As their baseline constituents, the blue-collar and middle-class white populations , migrated to the suburbs, long-standing political alignments dissolved.
whole
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It provides a reasonably equitable and comprehensive service to the whole population at remarkably small cost.
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Combat had created a whole new population of patients.
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Though the whole population remained the focus of interest, sampling techniques enabled it to be studied economically.
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When the whole population of New York was, oh hell, under 2 million.
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It is therefore a full survey conducted on the whole population .
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The whole population of the town seemed to be on the move.
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S., distributing a $ 10, 000, 000 gift to the whole population ?
working
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The rate of growth of total working population fell to zero by the mid 1960s.
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One in seven of the working population is unemployed: 3¼ million people.
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The picture of the working population of West Ham emerging from these data is one dominated by unskilled male manual workers.
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They now cover 35 percent. of the working population and are carefully targeted on the areas most in need.
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The town has a working population of around 700, so the closures will put one in ten on the dole.
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It was also attributable to the increasing demands and expectations of the newly enfranchised working population .
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Lothian is also a well defined employment centre with nearly 92 percent of its working population employed within its boundary.
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The prize, however, was that the whole working population would have a pension of their own.
■ NOUN
control
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Such stories reinforce stock images of a regime that imposes population control by force.
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In other areas, however, corruption has weakened population controls .
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The same principle has been effective in the case of population control .
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But sterilisation is the ultimate means of ensuring effective population control .
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For instance, population control , which neither involved women nor took their point of view into consideration, had failed utterly.
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Welcomes, with some reservations, the introduction of the Black Death as a vital measure of population control .
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If the Greens ever form a government, they should use him in the commercials advocating population control .
density
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For this reason, an increase in population density often precipitates a round of emigration.
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In some individual neighborhoods, the population density is three times greater than in the infamous slums of Calcutta or Jakarta.
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Average population densities doubled between 1900 and 1960.
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He suggested that the main cause of social differentiation was the increase in population density .
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Presumably there are factors that control the size, and they depend on the population density .
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Where there is a high population density and a rapid population turnover, the church must achieve visibility.
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Rural population densities are of prime importance in modifying the implications of the different relations of production under which land is used.
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This gave an average population density of over 1600 inhabitants per square mile in 1981.
explosion
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Pressures on carers will increase as Britain faces a population explosion among the most vulnerable elderly people.
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It could be a major factor is reversing the deadly momentum of the population explosion .
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He cites in support of this the population explosion .
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Mention procreation, and they talk about the population explosion .
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Pettitt sees urban services in particular offering vast scope for expansion as city fathers wake up to the dangers from the car population explosion .
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As the summer reaches its peak, there will be a population explosion of butterflies.
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But nomatterhow hard they are worked the population explosion continues.
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They say a pest control campaign is needed to stop a squirrel population explosion .
growth
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Even before the birth of the world's six billionth inhabitant in 1999, demographers had marked the deceleration of population growth .
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According to modernisation theory, the urban centre is the locus of population growth , mobility and integration.
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As these areas were destroyed or reduced over the years by development and population growth , the owl populations went with it.
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There is a more significant difference, however, in population growth .
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Understanding of population growth in relation to the level of agricultural production facilitates future food planning and management.
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The problem for the future is the need to keep pace with mushrooming global population growth .
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The irony is that population growth itself eats away at development potential.
majority
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Within such a discourse national intellectuals need not see themselves as attempting to impose their own culture orientations upon a majority population .
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The backlash within the majority population took a different path.
prison
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The main reason for the huge prison population is the fashion for severe and mandatory sentencing.
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Financially, the programme depends on savings gained from reducing the prison population .
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Unfortunately however, such a policy would also have the effect of increasing the already excessive prison population by an enormous extent.
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This constituted 22 percent of the total prison population .
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This reduced the prison population by over 3,000, and without it the figure would have been 53,000.
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An estimated 8,500 other prisoners - most of the remaining prison population - also benefited from reductions in their prison terms.
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Furthermore, expanding prison populations have crippling consequences for prison regimes.
world
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The total world population was put at 190 at the last count.
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On the one hand, a growing, needy world population eliminates nature day by day.
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The year 1994 is the latest year for which reasonably comprehensive data on world population are available.
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Surely then, until Third World populations decline through national programmes of family planning, population pressure will cause hunger and shortages.
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Pedro, like the rest of the working world population , was somewhat underemployment.
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If percapita consumption remained static, an increased world population would still need 40 percent more energy by 2025.
■ VERB
grow
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At the same time, health and welfare services will have to expand for a growing and aging population .
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The growing population needs more roads, wooden shacks and outhouses.
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We needed all our land to accommodate our growing population .
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As a result, many were lulled into thinking that the world can accommodate an infinitely growing population .
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But at first the cities simply increased in number, grew in population and became more densely packed.
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On the one hand, a growing , needy world population eliminates nature day by day.
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The areas around London grew in population throughout the inter-war period.
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Likewise, growing population placed increasing demands on electric generation and water treatment facilities.
increase
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Numerous programs for increasing the white population were debated in the colonial assembly, but no resolution was adopted.
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The rapidly increasing urban population has placed an impossible strain on the provision of housing.
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This is more likely if increasing wealth is matched by increasing population and increasing density of population.
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Such costs increase as the population size increases.
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By analogy, shows the marginal percapita crowding costs, i.e. the amount by which crowding costs increase as the population increases.
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Yet a rapidly increasing population has prevented this growth from raising per capita income as much as might be hoped.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
centre of population/urban centre
native New Yorker/population/inhabitants etc
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Although he was a native New Yorker, like many denizens of that city he had a romantic view of country life.
the mass of people/the population/workers etc
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For the mass of the population, indeed, the shift of interest arguably went in the other direction.
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Such feelings developed very much within the context of the lived experience of the mass of the population.
the population/public/society/world etc at large
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Equally important is how a baby communicates back to caregivers and the world at large .
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How then did this concept originate, and why has it received such currency among specialists and the public at large ?
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However, in spite of that, the availability both here and in Britain should be known to the public at large .
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I came and looked around and felt this campus is no different than the society at large .
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In some societies the boy-preferring habit seems to have spread from elites to the society at large .
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The rise of the Internet has taken that idea from offices to the world at large .
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They chattered on among themselves, oblivious to the world at large , lovingly cared for in this cozy place.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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30% of the male population suffers from heart disease.
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A large portion of the population lives in poverty.
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Austria has a population of 7.5 million.
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In 1966 the population of Lima was about two million.
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In Ghana 46% of the population is under 16 years of age.
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In many Western European countries the population is no longer increasing.
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In our study, significantly more miners complained of weight loss than the general population .
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Most of the population of Canada lives relatively near the U.S. border.
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New Jersey has a population of around 7.6 million.
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Ninety percent of the adult population is literate.
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The population of Germany is about 80 million.
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The population of Singapore is almost 3 million.
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The country's Jewish population was angered by the prime minister's remarks.
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The patients have been isolated to keep the disease from spreading to the rest of the population .
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The U.S. has a rate of population growth that is five times that of Europe.
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What is the population of Montana?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But most of this growing population is poor and marginalised, even before disaster strikes.
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City officials are wary of population loss to suburbs and point with pride to the overall population gain that has accompanied annexation.
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In those countries where indigenous women existed side by side with a late-arriving and dominant population , the indigenous women suffered disproportionately.
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More than 53 million people, about one-fifth of the population , live in those counties.
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Most of them have populations that are growing rapidly.
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The steppes support around 65 percent of the remaining worldwide bustard population .
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Ultimately the regional problem and the changing geography of population and industrial distribution gave the subject field a dramatically widened remit.