Sentence examples for is less populous from inspiring English sources

With 362,500 residents, Miami proper ranks nowhere near the nation's largest cities -- according to the 2000 census, it is less populous than Albuquerque, Fresno, even Tulsa.

But even though it is less populous than Mr. Morton's novel (which featured a cameo from the literary critic Alfred Kazin and a few more fictitious old-timers to keep Leonard company), the adaptation, with a screenplay by Mr. Wagner and Fred Parnes, rarely feels unduly claustrophobic or rarefied.

The short-finned pilot whale is less populous.

Londinium in the 3rd and 4th centuries was less populous than in ad 125.

The garage had once been a hangar for a small single-engine airplane when this neighborhood was less populous.

And size and commercial significance should be held constant: the Scots should not suffer relative to, say, the English, just because they were less populous.

THE most recent census of Britain, in 2011, found few places that were less populous than they had been in 2001.

The sprawling 10th Congressional District includes parts of Fairfax and Prince William counties and Loudoun County, where most Democratic voters in the district live, as well as Clarke and Frederick counties, which are less populous but more conservative.

Whether it's because Americans are craving more personal space, access to nature, solitude or all of the above, the study shows that the states with the highest job love on social media over the past 12-months were ones that are less populous.

"Cologne is a little over three hours away, and most of the populous North Rhine-Westphalia region is less than six hours away.

"We've been struggling a long time to get an African-American, but the powers that be told us it wasn't time," said Mr. Jackson, 70, who has lived for 52 years in what is now the state's most populous county, which is less than 6percentt black.