Sentence examples for population was smaller from inspiring English sources

By 1500, Venice's population was smaller than it had been in 1330.

At that time, Japan's population was smaller than it is today, but individual families tended to have more children.

That, by the way, was before women were allowed to vote and when the city's population was smaller by nearly three million.

He said there were no similar proposals to ban Jewish religious courts because the Jewish population was smaller than the Muslim population.

However, Mr. Ruckman said, it is virtually certain this year's mark will be the most in history because the population was smaller and there were fewer federal criminal laws in the country's early years.

There wasn't a housing crisis in London then; the population was smaller and Thatcher's ruinous universal "right to buy" policy of selling off council housing hadn't yet totally destroyed the council stock.

The population was small.

When Amos was born, the population was small — around a hundred thousand — and each neighborhood was distinct.

Although the first U.S. diocese was founded in 1789, the Catholic population was small and sparsely settled.

When the prison population was small, this was easy to ignore.

At the time of European settlement, the Native American population was small and widely scattered.