Example sentences of "years [adv] [art] population " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seventy years later the population had risen to 22.7 million , of whom 62% lived in towns and cities . |
| 2 | This old yellow-brown , black-muzzled breed from the Poitou region numbered 728,000 in 1932 , but since 1945 the breed has been declining rapidly and by 1977 there were only 35,000 ; three years later the population had dropped to about 20,000 . |
| 3 | In 1801 a mere twenty-five people lived in the four houses that comprised the settlement of Middlesborough and thirty years later the population stood at only 154 . |
| 4 | Twenty years later the population had risen by 478 but the proportion of the workforce employed in footwear had grown more dramatically , so that not only were 301 men and boys working at the trade but also 123 women and 118 girls . |
| 5 | Forty years ago the population was under 20,000 but now it is seven times that . |
| 6 | Forty years ago the population was under 20,000 but now it is seven times that . |