Example sentences of "population at [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For several years we have been leaning over backwards to avoid the use of the forbidden word , instructing the population at large that it is more dead than the dodo and deleting it from our titles with abandon . |
| 2 | In practice the new discourse was addressed not to the population at large but to potential members of an elite of " the educated " . |
| 3 | As princely chanceries evolved across West Francia , their output was welcomed by the population at large because the set formulae they employed offered some assurance of authenticity . |
| 4 | The permission given by the 1969 Act for no-fault divorce was driven as much by a profound rethinking of the sources of morality by clerical and academic opinion as by the determined pursuit of individual self-interest on the part of either the population at large or lawyers in particular . |
| 5 | It has been the policy of successive Health Ministers to reduce smoking because of the benefits to the health of the population at large and reduced cost to the health service of having less smoking-related illness to deal with . |