substantial population

collocation in English

meaningsofsubstantialandpopulation

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substantial
adjective
uk
/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/us
/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/
large in size, value, ...
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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(Definition ofsubstantialandpopulationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A social system with religious leaders and a ruling class organized asubstantialpopulation.
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The area must anyway have had asubstantialpopulationby that time to fill the church.
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This indicates that there was asubstantialpopulationliving where there are only a few houses now.
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There is also asubstantialpopulationof grey seals throughout the year.
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These complexities not only revealsubstantialpopulationgrowth over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, they also help explain the peculiar arrangements to which the chief inhabitants resorted.
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If one cares about the environment, one must care about poor countries, wheresubstantialpopulationgrowth contributes to its despoliation.
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Let me give another illustration of a town that may be urban to-day with asubstantialpopulation, but which at onetime was a rural town.
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The greatest difficulty of all is to try to combine cuts with the expansion of those areas that are facingsubstantialpopulationincreases.
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I am speaking only of countries which have asubstantialpopulation.
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I do not think it is possible to say that any area containing asubstantialpopulationis immune from the risk of air attack.
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It is in an area with asubstantialpopulation, which is growing rapidly.
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So the area, with itssubstantialpopulation, will continue to decline.
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It is asubstantialpopulationwithin our nation.
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For many years local authorities, particularly those faced withsubstantialpopulationexpansion, have drawn attention to the fact that the rate support grant procedures make no allowance for this factor.
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When it is also remembered that there are probably six or seven inhabitants to a cottage it is evident that you are dealing with a large andsubstantialpopulation.
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This is obviously necessary assubstantialpopulationmovements have taken place and serious disparities and inequalities in the sizes of the electorates of constituencies have developed.
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In addition, there weresubstantialpopulationmovements within each island, and significant changes resulted from this.
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There was always a fairlysubstantialpopulationof artisans and small shopkeepers, to service the bigger houses.
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There is also asubstantialpopulationof butternut trees.
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