Sentence examples for once sparsely from inspiring English sources

The discovery of abundant reserves of oil in the late 1970s brought a significant influx of people to the once sparsely populated region.

Conversely, areas of western and southern France that were once sparsely industrialized have become the focus for the growth of new manufacturing and service activities, particularly in advanced technology.

Poised midway between New York and Trenton, this once sparsely settled county grew by 23percentt in the last decade, adding 55,818 people for a population of 297,490, according to Census Bureau numbers released today.

She has spent most of her life in Kendall, a satellite of Miami that was once sparsely populated but that today is very much a vision of America itself, all big-car traffic and strip malls.

In 1972, Tumhaire's grandfather moved from the west of Uganda to the central Nakasongola district, a once sparsely populated area now made up of small farms created when farmers started dividing land among their children.

The University of South Florida sprawls over nearly 1,500 acres in a once sparsely populated section of Tampa, close to where the city bleeds into unincorporated Hillsborough County.

The undertakers' ball is over and the streets are once again sparsely peopled.

ROME — The abandoned university building on the outskirts of Rome, colloquially known as Salaam Palace, was once a sparsely populated makeshift shelter where new arrivals from Africa — fleeing war, persecution and economic turmoil — squatted to create their own refuge.

Its largest city, Kuala Lumpur, a place once so sparsely populated that it looked like a botanical garden, has exploded into a cosmopolitan metropolis of shopping malls, luxury hotels and sprawling suburbs.

When Davis and colleagues assert that the study is significantly underpowered because it is only sparsely sampling brain activity once every 45s - this reflects a significant misunderstanding of the methods used in the study and the SNR benefits of our approach.

And perhaps nowhere else in Texas is a community's bond so reliant on the team as in the sparsely populated towns once made vital by oil and cattle and cotton.