Sentence examples for population owned from inspiring English sources

By the time the usually steely-eyed Lady Thatcher made her tearful departure in November 1990, one in four of the population owned shares and more than 40 former state-owned businesses had been privatised, a process which affected more than 600,000 workers in former nationalised industries.

Half the population owned a telephone, by which I mean a landline.

The company explained that it referred to the fact that 7% of the population owned 84% of the wealth.

Until 1840, at any rate, no more than 11% of the population owned guns and Massachusetts was one of the two centres of gun production in the country****.

But only 32% of the population owned more than $10,000-worth of stock, and many middle-class people are only modestly affected by falling asset prices.

Only 2 percent of the population owned land, while 90 percent worked as itinerant laborers for only a few months of the year.

Fewer than one in three of the poorest tenth of the population own their own car.

It seems that 0.6% of the population owning 69% of the land isn't inequitable enough.

With nearly 80% of the world's population owning a smartphone, that potential is huge.

In Britain, the poorest half of the population owns just 3-43-4% the wealth.

Do more than half of the local population own their homes?