Sentence examples for contained poor from inspiring English sources

Although the reserves were large, like the reserves to the south, they were far from the railway line, contained poor soils, and were soon overcrowded and eroded.

I can still remember reading the chart every fortnight, bewildered and thrilled at the names it contained: Poor Old Soul by Orange Juice, Let's Build a Car by Swell Maps, There Goes Concorde Again by And The Native Hipsters, even I'm in Love with Margaret Thatcher by The Notsensibles (released, unbelievably, by a record label called Snotty Snail).

Most of the land was swamp or contained poor soil.

A third cause of errors could be that the input data (TermColl) should have been filtered in another way in order to detect rubrics that were non-standard or that contained poor translation correspondences.

Overall, 4.4% (n=42) of the acronyms contained poor language in an attempt to improve on the acronym, 11.5% (n=109) were designated as "cool," with cardiology and pulmonary medicine in the lead with 12.9% and 10.7%, respectively, and psychiatry, rheumatology, and endocrinology following with 2.8%, 5.8% and 9.8%, respectively.

Nevertheless, the Marist poll contains poor news for Mr. Weiner, on balance.

It contains poor ex-industrial cities, like Bradford and Middlesbrough, and depressed towns like Consett, near Newcastle.

It contains poor drawings by artists who supposedly specialize in the medium but frequently succumb to generic rendering, most prominently William Kentridge.

But Michael Rosenthal, a British art historian at the University of Warwick in England, visiting here, said in a letter to the newspaper that Mr. Genocchio was "largely correct" and that "the show does contain poor quality paintings -- made glaringly obvious by their contrast with the rather fewer great ones".

These fluids contain poor thermal properties.

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