Sentence examples for few settlers from inspiring English sources

Several plantations (settlements, in today's language) in 16th and 17th century Ireland failed because there were too few settlers.

"Off you go .Taking time out from their Saturday morning prayers, a few settlers looked on approvingly.

To gain an edge on their corporate rivals, railroad owners built expensive lines into drought-prone areas that had few settlers and little prospect of attracting more.

On March 5, however, only 57 troops and a few settlers were sent to face the 400 convicts who had taken up positions on Vinegar Hill.

Whalers slaughtered the giant tortoises, and the few settlers brought rats, cats and goats, which crowded out local flora and fauna.

Except for European immigrants who were taken to the West by railway companies and other agencies with lands to sell, few settlers on the agricultural frontier came directly from eastern industrial centers.

Only a few dozen settlers survived, mainly by fleeing into the jungle.

The Israeli authorities acknowledge that few violent settlers have been caught or prosecuted.

When Charles Darwin landed on the Galápagos Islands in 1835, the 19 islands had a few hundred settlers.

The latter's problems are less complaex since because of climate & geography it had relatively few white settlers.

In 1884 it had only a few hundred settlers, but by the 1891 census its population had grown to 3,876.