Sentence examples for size of settlements from inspiring English sources

This coincides with a major reduction in both the number and size of settlements, suggesting a deterioration in the environment.

Access to public services, such as schools and health clinics, also increases with the size of settlements.

Along the Saraswati there is further evidence of the drying up of the Derawar oasis, with a further decline in the number and size of settlements.

This figure amounts to about £200m, double the size of settlements reached with other groups of shareholders involved in long-running legal battles with RBS.

The mechanization of the textile industry in the late 18th century brought a considerable increase in the number of factories and the size of settlements.

But the Pareto distribution, also known as the 80-200 rule," holds in such diverse human contexts as size of settlements (a few big cities, many smaller towns) and frequency of words in text (a few words used often, most words infrequently), as well as for natural phenomena like the size of sand particles and of meteorites.

Interannual variability in circulation patterns and water temperature also resulted in contrasting larval settlement rates, settlement locations, and size of settlement areas between years.

The results of the analysis show that increasing absolute size and decreasing relative size of settlement unit have negative effects on the number of candidates in units.

Those variables which most precisely explain the probability that a home be found in each of these groups are per-capita income, size of settlement (urban or rural), and type of climate.

Conversely, the observed increase in the size of settlement areas during the last 16 years could be linked to the increase in human population growth following the development of semi‐permanent water points in the 1970s (Angassa and Oba 2008b) and settlement policy of the Ethiopian government between 1970 and 1991 (Oba 1998).

Table 2 illustrates bivariate associations with strong effect sizes predicting ever having had an HIV test, specifically being 'out' and the proportion of MSM friends, followed by education and the size of settlement.