The phrase "thin the population" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to decrease the number of people in a certain group or area. Example: The government implemented a new policy to thin the population in overcrowded cities, offering incentives for people to move to less populated areas.
Each year, the bureau conducts roundups to thin the population.
Australia's army has started shooting 6,000 kangaroos to thin the population on an army training ground near Canberra, the capital, an official said Friday.
The repatriation is only part of the story: the increase in numbers is also because of an initiative in which aerial sharpshooters were enlisted to thin the population of nonnative feral goats, which graze on the same vegetation as tortoises.
Some schools have adopted such schedules to thin the populations of crowded schools, allowing some students to be on vacation while others are in class.
For years, antihunt forces staged demonstrations urging officials to find nonlethal alternatives to thinning the population.
However, recessions and natural disasters have a way of thinning the population.
But from the late 1800s until 1962, Massachusetts placed a bounty on seals, paying up to $5 per nose and thinning the population.
Epidemics of infectious disease including AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and waterborne infections further thinned the population. 2 Today Rwanda has been transformed.
Most winters thin the mosquito population.
(AP) CALENDAR Today NEW JERSEY VOTE ON BEAR HUNT The New Jersey Senate is scheduled to vote on a bill that would ban bear hunting and provide $95,000 to develop nonlethal ways to thin the bear population.
Princeton officials won permission today to proceed with their second annual hunt to thin the deer population, as a state judge lifted a restraining order obtained two weeks ago by animal rights advocates.
