Sentence examples for outpost of about from inspiring English sources

All of this banished their thoughts of upsizing to a three-bedroom apartment in Queens, sending them instead on a search of the narrow streets and steep hillsides in this outpost of about 5,000, for a house to call their own.

Many people here say the fight is really about holding on to a vision of what Kanab has traditionally been: an outpost of about 3,200 people on the Arizona border, mainly populated by the descendants of the Mormon pioneers who settled the area in the 1800's.

David Frederick's rural outpost of about 1,000 residents, set along the northeastern edge of Nebraska's Sandhills, was about to see its population briefly swelled by a phalanx of U.S. State Department officials, itinerant union laborers, ranchers, farmers, environmentalists and reporters.

An obscure outpost of psychedelia is about to get some exposure.

1.58pm GMT Foreign Office team arrives A UK Foreign Office chartered plane carrying a special consular team has landed in the desert outpost of Hassi Messaoud, about 300 miles north-west of Amenas, reports Julian Borger.

The 1980s seem so long ago, so it's worth recapping just what happened then, if only to put in sharper relief what might have happened since, had Britain become part of the "new Europe" outpost of American neoliberalism about to be thrown to the wolves of "market readjustment".

In addition to the usual officers patrols left out overnight to monitor the enemy's positions, Chauvel decided to leave out for the night the whole of the 1st Light Horse Brigade to hold an outpost line of about 3 miles (4.8 km), covering all entrances to the sandhill plateau which formed the Romani position and which were not protected by infantry posts.

On December 21, about 600 of Griffin's troops overwhelmed a guard outpost of the 42nd located about one mile south of Blackhorse at Petticoat Bridge.

The outpost, with about 4,000 inhabitants, is at the end of that road and beyond the reach of power lines.

And in Lawrenceville, New Jersey (a semi rural outpost of Princeton), the Other was largely about looking and behaving like you weren't supposed to.

Meanwhile, Smedvig Chief Executive Kjell Jacobsen was keeping Noble at arm's length, unenthusiastic about becoming just a Norwegian outpost of a Houston-based company.