The settlement pattern expanded and previously sparsely settled areas were infilled, especially in the Valley of Mexico. |
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Here it was found sparsely as rounded grains associated with pargasite, diopside, oligoclase and lazurite. |
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In our sparsely populated field of glaciology we have our share of individuals in each category, and he was one of the finest in the last group. |
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University archives, on the other hand, are very sparsely visited by non-academics and non-professionals. |
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Walking into the gallery sparsely hung with the artist's small paintings, the viewer immediately sensed a challenge. |
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The Court found that this unconstitutionally favored voters in sparsely populated counties over heavily populated counties, such as Cook County. |
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Though sparsely populated, Plantation Key promises accommodation for the tourists at the waterfront vacation rentals. |
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We have spent two days road-tripping to the sparsely settled northern end of Vancouver Island. |
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The eastern plains, or llanos, account for 60 percent of the country's territory and are sparsely populated, as are the coastal lowlands. |
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The Terrans have their home world and the original colony world that they survived on during their exile, both only sparsely populated. |
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A rescue helicopter was scrambled to help search teams to scour the area, which is one of the sparsely populated places in Britain. |
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The route is sparsely populated, if at all, with mostly timbered peaks giving way to an occasional high mountain lake. |
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Similarly, setae may be simple stalks with single spatulate tips, or they may be sparsely or profusely branched. |
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It is sparsely populated with tribespeople who display a fierce sense of independence. |
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One of the best of these sparsely vegetated, shrubby habitats is found on the western slopes of BlackJack Mountain. |
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Breeding birds are found both near the coast and farther inland on sparsely vegetated, dry Arctic tundra. |
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Les Carroz itself is a surprisingly big and sparsely used area, well suited to families and intermediate skiers. |
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The newly discovered settlement is in the southern part of a sparsely inhabited region known as Vilcabamba, named for a local mountain chain. |
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The abstention rate has been similar in other elections, with branch meetings sparsely attended and frequently inquorate. |
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My favourite piece on the album is the title track, in which Frayne transforms sparsely plucked guitar notes into deep oscillating drones. |
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The edge of a town wrapped around into view off in the near-distance, small rough-hewn huts scattered about on the sparsely vegetated plain. |
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The money will be used to target specific areas of social exclusion and poverty in sparsely populated areas. |
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Moments later they found themselves in a sparsely filled auditorium to make their presentation. |
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By contrast, the female characters are sparsely developed and possess few redeeming qualities. |
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In the mangrove-lined estuaries that ring most of the 2,000-miles of sparsely inhabited coast you can fish for trevally, queenfish or tarpon. |
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I already have quite a few of those, but apart from the helianthemums, things are either blooming sparsely or not at all. |
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Studios were sparsely and functionally furnished, but contained unfinished or unsold works. |
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The answers lie in work opportunities in a rural agrarian economy and sparsely populated state. |
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Outside, large frame houses present darkened facades along a sparsely trafficked street. |
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On a wide coastal plain, a broad river with sparsely treed grasslands on either side meandered towards the foothills. |
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The acting is pointed, the action is brutal, and the tale is sparsely told. |
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There is characteristically a dense sparsely cellular fibrous stroma. |
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The vulture also prefers open spaces, foraging over grassland, thornbush, macchia, karoo, desert, and other sparsely vegetated regions, while it avoids large forested areas. |
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He leans on her as they walk out of the park, heading home to a sparsely furnished but comfortable home with hot chapattis and aloo subzi for dinner. |
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To be sure, it's a lot easier to garner favorable press reports than it is to get people to actually schlep to an often brutally cold, sparsely populated state. |
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The northern part of the diocese, the old archdeaconry of Brecon, is almost entirely rural, sparsely populated, and overwhelmingly dependent upon agriculture. |
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Much of this area, mostly former French colonies, is sparsely populated. |
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In addition, the book, while occasionally based on primary sources, such as interviews, is written by an admitted Russophile, and is sparsely documented. |
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The main problem, as with so many other species, is that we tend to be fishing relatively sparsely populated lakes, which have huge natural food larders. |
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Butterfly larvae tend to be solitary, or sparsely distributed, whereas pest caterpillars, such as fall webworm, make tents and hatch in the hundreds. |
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But it is equally applicable to rural and remote areas in much of the world, and in sparsely populated regions such as the Arctic circumpolar area. |
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Seabeach amaranth typically occurs on sparsely vegetated areas such as interdunal flats, overwash flats, lower foredunes, and points of non-eroding beaches. |
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A gasoline tax raises the cost of driving on roads that are relatively free-flowing, for example, in sparsely populated areas or urban areas on weekends. |
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For each single molecule measurement on a sparsely labeled filament, a rhodamine spot was selected based on colocalization with an actin filament aligned along the x axis. |
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Most counties have their own circuit court, but sparsely populated counties often share them. |
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This large rainforest region is irrigated by several large rivers and is sparsely populated. |
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The only unincorporated areas in the region exist in the sparsely populated northern regions of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. |
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Northumberland is the most sparsely populated county in England, with only 62 people per square kilometre. |
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At that time, the area, known as South Hawes, was sparsely populated and dominated by sand dunes. |
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Whimbrels in Iceland show a strong preference for sparsely vegetated riverplains. |
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Conventional rain gauges are accurate, but are often distributed too sparsely to capture much of this variation. |
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Rain gauges on land or at sea tend to be sparsely distributed, and the exact positions of such instruments decades ago isn't always known. |
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The wave has already caused serious damage to the sparsely populated Juan Fernandez islands, off the Santiago coast, local radio reported. |
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The epicentre of the quake was 111 km southwest of Karakul, the USGS said, a sparsely populated mountainous area. |
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The region is sparsely populated and the only access is by boat, plane, or snowmachine. |
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Unit G is composed of sparsely to moderately porphyritic basalt, with gabbroid xenoliths, plagioclase glomerocrysts and olivine microphenocrysts. |
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Fond memories of Party Wright Around The World as flop specialist Mark staged yet another of his sparsely attended knees-ups for hardly anyone. |
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The region is generally hilly and sparsely populated in the North and West, and urban and arable in the East and South. |
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In the first printing, the device of having different type faces to show supplied words was used sparsely and inconsistently. |
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Large areas of land were left sparsely inhabited, and in some places fields were left unworked. |
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The sparsely decorated Central Tower was built between 1407 and 1472 and is also in the Perpendicular style. |
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The geography of Scotland is varied, from rural lowlands to unspoilt uplands, and from large cities to sparsely inhabited islands. |
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The region is sparsely populated, with an economy dependent on farming and small businesses. |
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The following day he and a friend attended the sparsely populated AGM of the university branch of the Federation of Student Nationalists. |
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California was suddenly no longer a sparsely populated backwater, but seemingly overnight it had grown into a major US population center. |
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South of Karigasniemi the area surrounding the river is very sparsely populated. |
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The sparsely populated region of Drenthe was part of the republic too, although it was not considered one of the provinces. |
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It is the eighth largest country in Europe and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union. |
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It hosts a number of unique plant and animal species and is sparsely populated. |
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The Canadian government hoped to develop the economy in the sparsely populated western part of the country. |
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This barren and sparsely populated 'wilderness' is often referred to as the Desert of Wales. |
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As a local government area, it is the second biggest in Wales in terms of geographical area and also one of the most sparsely populated. |
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The building of parish churches also began in the 12th century, densely in the Vale, but very sparsely in the upland and northern areas. |
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In 2010 the population was 76,938, making it the second most sparsely populated county in Wales. |
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Almost all pinnipeds have fur coats, the exception being the walrus, which is only sparsely covered. |
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Pine and spruce are dominant, but the forests are slowly but surely more sparsely grown the farther towards the north it gets. |
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The global warming that followed caused a slow change in vegetation towards a sparsely distributed vegetation dominated by Nothofagus species. |
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Aside from the vibrissae, the walrus is sparsely covered with fur and appears bald. |
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Those influenced by German capitalized all nouns, while others capitalized more sparsely. |
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The large regions of the Sahara desert, which constitute most of Egypt's territory, are sparsely inhabited. |
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Dakota Territory was settled sparsely by European Americans until the late 19th century, when the railroads were constructed into the region. |
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In Central Asia, human disturbances are minimal as this area has a harsher environment and is more sparsely populated. |
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The eggs have the shape of hen's eggs and are pale yellow, sparsely spotted with brown. |
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Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its land territory being dominated by forest and tundra and the Rocky Mountains. |
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Before the eruption, they were a sparsely distributed people who subsisted by foraging and hunting, using both spears and bows and arrows. |
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Haplogroup R1b is the dominant haplogroup of Western Europe and also found sparsely distributed among various peoples of Asia and Africa. |
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The more sparsely settled Inuit in the Central Arctic, however, did so less often. |
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Often officials have also prohibited pricing that would have made short rides in sparsely populated areas profitable. |
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Reindeer herding is of central importance for the local economies of small communities in sparsely populated rural Lapland. |
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In the extreme west of Lower Saxony is the Emsland, a traditionally poor and sparsely populated area, once dominated by inaccessible swamps. |
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It was a regional religion based in northwestern Europe, with an outpost in the sparsely settled United States. |
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The more mountainous southern half of the country is far more sparsely populated than the northern half. |
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The Mingos, for example, were Iroquois who migrated further west to the sparsely populated Ohio Country during the 18th century. |
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The largest two islands, Halmahera and Seram are sparsely populated, while the most developed, Ambon and Ternate are small. |
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The Tanimbar Islands and other southeastern islands are arid and sparsely vegetated, much like nearby Timor. |
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Most of the southeast portion of the country is in the Sahara Desert and as such is generally sparsely populated and unproductive economically. |
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During the period of Spanish rule, this area was sparsely populated even by indigenous peoples. |
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The outer islands are sparsely populated due to lack of employment opportunities and economic development. |
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Eastern Maine north of the Kennebec River was more sparsely settled and was known in the 17th century as the Territory of Sagadahock. |
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The remainder is extremely sparsely populated, with about half the population living in very small settlements and cattle ranches. |
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The population is mainly concentrated in the capital, Thimphu, and is otherwise sparsely distributed throughout the country. |
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My home-tied creations, particularly easily dressed and sparsely hackled spiders, were eventually good enough to put to use on the Endrick and the Clyde. |
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In their sixteenth-century pomp, the great naval yards of the Arsenale turned out a galleon a day, but are now sparsely populated by rusting vaporetti and motor boats. |
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Also, a new endowment was set up in June that will benefit the 11 Council of the North dioceses such as the Arctic that are large in land mass but sparsely populated. |
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Like the cycads many cycadeoids have trunklike stems that are unbranched or sparsely branched and clothed in spirally arranged persistent leaf bases. |
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Police in the sparsely populated Northern Territory said the man was taken to hospital after the stunt backfired at Darwin s Rapid Creek around midnight on Saturday. |
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It keeps moving south into a sparsely populated area of Cumbria. |
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Except for the coastal areas, Norrland is sparsely populated. |
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Due to the plagues, the land was sparsely populated, but the entire area was controlled by the Pokanoket Tribe and Federation, led by Chief Massasoit. |
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In lieu of a workhouse some sparsely populated parishes placed homeless paupers into rented accommodation, and provided others with relief in their own homes. |
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Viti Levu's interior is sparsely inhabited due to its terrain. |
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The most densely populated regions of the island are the eastern highlands and the eastern coast, contrasting most dramatically with the sparsely populated western plains. |
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Kievan Rus', although sparsely populated compared to Western Europe, was not only the largest contemporary European state in terms of area but also culturally advanced. |
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During the Hohenstaufen period, German princes facilitated a successful, peaceful eastward settlement of lands that were uninhabited or inhabited sparsely by West Slavs. |
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It is sparsely distributed in Africa, being concentrated among Khoisan populations in the southwest and Nilotic populations toward the northast in the Nile Valley. |
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The lowlands of the Lordship of Glamorgan were manorialized, while much of the sparsely populated uplands were left under Welsh control until the late 13th century. |
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In the early Middle Ages, Glynrhondda was a commote of the cantref of Penychen in the kingdom of Morgannwg, a sparsely populated agricultural area. |
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The area is sparsely populated due to the extreme nature of the climate. |
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For the next 25 years Alta California remained as a remote, sparsely populated, northwestern administrative district of the newly independent country of Mexico. |
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The area is very sparsely populated, with many mountain ranges dominating the region, and includes the highest mountain in the British Isles, Ben Nevis. |
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The north of the county is predominantly rural and sparsely populated, except for the towns of Lancaster and Morecambe which form a large conurbation of almost 100,000 people. |
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The area of modern Birmingham lay in between, on the upland Birmingham Plateau and within the densely wooded and sparsely populated Forest of Arden. |
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The Pennine region is sparsely populated by English standards. |
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At the same time, during the Ostsiedlung, Germans resettled east of the Elbe and Saale rivers, in regions previously only sparsely populated by Polabian Slavs. |
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The sample consists of light grey, sparsely porphyritic, aphanitic rhyolite with potassium feldspar, and lesser amounts of quartz and granophyre phenocrysts. |
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