Example sentences of "of the [adj] population over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then a strong movement has developed using the oral history/life story method to document the tragic experiences of the ordinary population over the last seventy years . |
| 2 | But , more important , what casts a large shadow over its future are the likely changes in the size of the eighteen-year-old population over the next dozen years or so . |
| 3 | Although scarcely under challenge from other national groups , Russians made up a steadily diminishing proportion of the total population over the postwar period and the Russian Republic included many of the Soviet Union 's poorest farmland and most dismal cities , creating at least the impression that it was subsidising developments in more prosperous non-Russian areas . |
| 4 | Historically , the major group of offenders are 14- to 20-year-old males and these peaked as a proportion of the population in 1982 at 6.77 per cent ( of the total population over the age of 10 ) before declining to 5.99 per cent in 1988 . |
| 5 | It seems likely that improvements in the health and work capacity of the elderly population over the last eighty years have more than compensated for any putative increase in the physical and mental demands of employment ; if so , rising retirement rates may reflect a decrease in the demand for the labour of elderly workers over a period in which their employment capacity has risen . |
| 6 | On average , inner London districts employ around one third fewer district nurses per capita of the resident population over the age of 75 than comparable districts outside London and the cost per contact is 60% higher than the national average . |
| 7 | The graveyard is an important landscape feature , since in many cases it represents the burial place of most of the local population over a millennium or more , and is the logical successor to prehistoric barrow groups and Roman cemeteries . |