Sentence examples for settlements about from inspiring English sources

We're 120km away from the nearest dwelling, though there may have been temporary settlements about a century ago".

Since 1970 a modern network of asphalt and gravel roads has been built up from virtually nothing to link all the country's main settlements; about one-fourth of this network is paved.

Since Ehud Barak came to power 15 months ago, nearly 2,000 dwellings have been started in the Israeli settlements, about the same number as for 1998 under the ostensibly more aggressive Binyamin Netanyahu.

The reduction in fees was sought by New York's attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, and the S.E.C. repeated its opposition yesterday to including such cuts in settlements about improper trading.

In the first 70 years of the New England settlements, about 100 people were formally charged with being witches; fewer than two dozen were convicted and fewer still were executed.

In what was the western remnant of the lion nation, now separated from the eastern section by a belt of farms & settlements about 100 miles wide, an effort was made to preserve some of South-West Africa's wildlife by the creation of Etosha National Park.

Has about 105 settlements with about 70% being rural.

Israel, and Israeli settlements, take about 80% of the aquifer's flow, leaving the Palestinians with 20%.

An Iberian settlement from about 700 bce, it was captured about 80 bce by the Romans.

At its peak in the mid-1880's, the settlement had about 150 families.

Several thousand acres were cultivated and a settlement of about 700 Latter-day Saints thrived there from 1846 to 1852.