Example sentences of "live in town [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | C. For a country such as Britain , which has most of its people living in towns and working in industry and trade , it is necessary to have good communications ( roads , railways , air transport , ports , post and telephones ) . |
| 2 | When people were already living in towns and storing grain from year to year , the crops hit upon a new strategy for propagating their own kind . |
| 3 | However , many people living in towns and cities do , in fact , live in suburbs . |
| 4 | People living in towns and cities can hardly be denied their quite reasonable and legitimate desire either to reside in or to visit the countryside and without them many villages would now lie abandoned and semi — derelict . |
| 5 | This was particularly important in a country like Britain whose population grew from 17,900,000 in 1851 to 36,000,000 in 1911 , the majority living in towns and cities . |
| 6 | Social factors are also said to have played a part in the decline in family sizes : women living in towns and cities and educated women tend to have fewer children . |
| 7 | It 's a time for few windows and we have many , and maybe it 's even a time for living in town or city with lights and movement and not just the dead nettles of the water meadow to gaze at . |
| 8 | If there was plenty of off-the-croft employment , and a reasonable balance between the cost of living in town and country , there would be no need to drum up interest in agriculture through schemes like the IDP . |
| 9 | The 1851 census revealed that in Britain for the first time more people lived in towns than in the country and that trend continued . |
| 10 | Half a century later the 1851 census provided clear evidence that an historic turning point had been reached ; the returns showed that for the first time more people lived in towns than in the countryside . |
| 11 | Seventy years later the population had risen to 22.7 million , of whom 62% lived in towns and cities . |
| 12 | There has been an increasing trend also for forestry workers to live in towns and be transported to work so creating further rural depopulation . |
| 13 | In the 1950s , Latin America was predominantly rural , now the majority of its population live in towns and cities . |
| 14 | The great majority of their citizens live in towns and cities . |
| 15 | A. Today , in Britain , most people live in towns or cities — in urban areas . |
| 16 | Most people today live in towns or cities and hence rarely buy food which is ‘ fresh from the farm ’ . |