Sentence examples similar to population hike from inspiring English sources

The area adjacent to the University of Birmingham where many of us lived is monopolised by landlords who deliberately exploit the transitory student population by hiking the prices far above local costs, practically bankrupting many students and pricing locals out of the area.

The idea behind a rent freeze was pretty straightforward: It would protect the working poor and retired population from yet another painful hike in housing costs, a goal that happens to be of a piece with de Blasio's "tale of two cities" campaign mantra decrying the incredible wealth gap that's a fact of life in the 21st century.

Popular feeling seems to suggest that the more likely scenario is the latter, which isn't gonna do much for a government's popularity when its already slashing public sector salaries and pensions, and attempting to impose sweeping tax hikes upon a population currently experiencing 16% unemployment.

The fact that the correlations are from the population structure suggests that hitch-hiking on autosomal events is a possible explanation for the observed correlations.

The population genetic reason is hitch-hiking.

This experiment also confirms two predictions from the population genetic theory of hitch-hiking.

The predominant activities reported were jogging (31% of adult population), strength training (24%) and hiking (23%), 22 none of these is recognised as a high risk activity for meniscal injury.

One day we hiked up to Edelweiss (population: 2), perched on a cliff almost 1,200 feet above Zermatt.

One day we hiked up to Edelweiss (population: 2), perched on a cliff almost 360 meters above Zermatt.

Finally, we will estimate the mitochondrial genetic diversity (synonymous and non-synonymous) on a wide taxonomic range in birds to test for the neutrality assumption and investigate the link between population size, mutation rate, genetic hitch-hiking, and mtDNA diversity.

Today, many of the village's onetime "cure cottages" are filled with tourists who come in the summer months to hike, canoe and unwind, swelling the population threefold.