Sentence examples for spectacular population from inspiring English sources

Yet until recently the commercial vigour and spectacular population growth of Dubai, which has little oil of its own, tended to balance this clout.

In London and the south east, by contrast, tight planning rules and a shortage of land mean that relatively little new housing is being built, even as a booming economy and spectacular population growth create lots of demand for it.

The spectacular population expansion of the Inland Empire during that time -- 66% during the 1980s, 26% in the 1990s and 2000s -- was driven in large measure by Los Angeles residents fleeing the city, in turn from crime and blight and then from outrageous housing prices, for the safety and affordability of the bedroom communities along the axis of the 10 and the 15 freeways.

The ruins are a result of the war that has been waged off and on since 1988 between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountain enclave of spectacular beauty whose population has been heavily Armenian for the last century but which lies within the territory of rival Azerbaijan.

East African arid and semi-arid lands are home to many of the world's pastoralists and most spectacular savanna wildlife populations, attracting substantial conservation and tourism revenues.

East African arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) are home to many of the world's pastoralists and most spectacular savanna wildlife populations, attracting substantial conservation and tourism revenues.

A post-war economic and baby boom under the Playford Government saw Burnside grow at a spectacular rate; from a population of 27,942 in 1947, it grew to 38,768 in 1961.

Southern Sudan boasts vast tracts of savannas, wetlands and woodlands that play host to some of the most spectacular and important wildlife populations in Africa and the world's second-largest wildlife migration — of some 1.3 million antelope.

Even by Scillonian standards, the beaches on St Martin's (population 142) are spectacular, and often listed as among the best in the UK.

"Spectacular growth has been found in jellyfish populations in Japan, Namibia, Alaska, Venezuela, Peru, Australia... this is an international ecological problem," Gili said.

We have roughly 130,000 elephants, two of Africa's three largest populations of wild dogs, and spectacular landscapes like the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater and Mount Kilimanjaro.