Sentence examples for there were affluent from inspiring English sources

As well as the economically "left behind", whom Westminster politicians sometimes see as the prime movers behind the Brexit vote, there were "affluent Eurosceptics", somewhat anti-immigration but also anti-welfare; and the "older working classes" – perhaps not struggling to make ends meet, but still concerned about the changing nature of society.

"There are affluent sections and affluent people in Brooklyn," he added.

On the north side of town, creeping up between the knuckles of the Alborz foothills, there are affluent neighborhoods with high-rise apartment buildings and fancy shops.

There are affluent young people of all races moving here who want to pay reasonable rents and spend their disposable incomes on the wares of a convenient city.

There's affluent Long Melford, with its wide street of antique shops, three great houses and glorious 15th-century Holy Trinity church: 80m long with more than 100 windows.

There are affluent beachfront communities that look as if they belong in Southern California and then, not far away, slum towns where dirt roads and mud-brick rondavels were the rule.

As it happens, there are affluent pockets of that county where the fraction of schoolchildren whose parents have cited a "personal belief" to exempt them from vaccinations is higher than the statewide average of 2.5percentt.

But there, families are affluent, housing is expensive - to such extent that it protects against divorce of parents -, and schools are so strict that pupils are being sent off if failing one class.

And data suggests that there were more affluent Americans living and working in major cities on the coasts that were attracted to his message as well.

"There were some affluent families who thought their children were spoiled and didn't pay the whole cost, and there were some families who had scrimped and saved and borrowed from family members and taken out loans," she said.

Joan Rynearson, an educational consultant on Bainbridge Island, Wash., said there were plenty of affluent parents receiving financial aid.