Sentence examples for former population from inspiring English sources

The former population of 16 million date palms around Basra is now estimated at 3 million.

His country by then lay in ruins, with more than half of its former population dead.

The census estimates released Thursday also quantified the impact of the recession on former population magnets.

Surely, over time, I told myself, the latter population of dishes would diminish, and the former population of dishes would grow, especially with the restaurant's recent configuration, whereby the amount of space claimed by the bar shrank, and the dining room was extended into what had been a wine retail space.

With this revenue lost, local services, at least those that survived the storms, could perish, a dangerous spiral for a rural town that has already seen much of its former population move to larger cities.Mr Beebe says he won't let the small town die.

When Anne Applebaum, an American journalist (and a former writer for this newspaper), went to Kaliningrad in 1991 she could find only three pre-war Germans still recorded officially as living there, out of a former population of more than 1m.The collapse of the Soviet Union has left Kaliningrad an "exclave" of Russia, separated from the rest of the country by Lithuania and Belarus.

At the same time, or soon thereafter, the Reformation under Henry VIII (who, of course, eventually executed his former Chancellor, Thomas More) resulted in the confiscation of many large monasteries, the former populations of the lands connected with which were also driven away.

Former populations in this area, centred on the Maldives and the Laccadive Islands, are presumed to be extinct.

The nation's Sunni majority will eventually be empowered in what is still an unforeseeable future; however, its Christian and other religious minorities, many of which have thrived for generations and all of which enrich Syria's vibrant society, may very well survive only as mere shells of their former populations.

Our results in conjunction with some former population-based studies and the DPP genetic studies indicate that genetic risk testing at this point may not offer much additional information applicable to prevention strategies of type 2 diabetes to that obtained from patients' FH and the well-known clinical risk markers.

The Ciudad del Carmen and Puerto Morelos populations differ from the Cozumel and Valladolid in blossom size, the former populations being characterized by large blossoms compared to the latter.