Example sentences of "lived [prep] town " 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 | The Buddhist press paid more attention to gambling and drunkenness than it did to cattle stealing , presumably because most newspaper correspondents lived in towns , where cattle stealing was a relatively infrequent occurrence . |
| 3 | At the beginning of the century only about a third of the population lived in towns . |
| 4 | The rate of urbanization increased after 1868 , and by 1920 nearly one-third of Japan 's population lived in towns of over 10,000 people . |
| 5 | Population growth has slowed considerably , but by the early 1980s around 65 per cent of the Japanese population lived in towns of over 50,000 people , and half the population in what were categorized as ‘ densely inhabited districts ’ . |
| 6 | In 1801 , only one-fifth of the population of England and Wales lived in towns . |
| 7 | The 1851 census revealed that in Britain for the first time more people lived in towns than in the country and that trend continued . |
| 8 | By 1901 only 41 per cent of the French population lived in towns . |
| 9 | Few English people lived in towns with more than 10,000 people during the Tudor and Stuart period , apart from those hundreds of thousands who dwelt in the capital city . |
| 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 | We felt sorry for the people who lived in towns . |
| 12 | There is a date stone here , 1666 , ( the date of the Fire of London ) and the initials of George and Eleanor Browne , who lived in Town End at that time . |
| 13 | Dan lived in town |