remaining inhabitants

collocation in English

meaningsofremainingandinhabitant

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remaining
adjective[before noun]
uk
/rɪˈmeɪ.nɪŋ/us
/rɪˈmeɪ.nɪŋ/
continuing to exist or be left after other parts or things have been used or ...
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inhabitant
noun[C]
uk
/ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/us
/ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/
a person or animal that lives in a ...
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For remaining inhabitants their main occupations continue to be fishing, sheep herding, agriculture and more recently tourism.
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It was finally abandoned by the last remaining inhabitants in 1962 to make way for the park.
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All the remaining inhabitants of the village moved out and the buildings were either demolished or left to disintegrate.
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Its population has decreased substantially since 1990, and many of the remaining inhabitants are over seventy years of age.
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By 1858, nearly all of the remaining inhabitants were living in houses.
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Its remaining inhabitants built and manned antitank defenses, while the city was bombarded from the air.
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The small town is mostly abandoned and the only remaining inhabitants are four women and a drunken waiter in the hotel.
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Meanwhile, food stores on the island were allowed to deplete in order to pressure the remaining inhabitants to leave.
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Less than 10% of the surface is habitable, and the remaining inhabitants of this once-prosperous world live on islands.
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Remaining inhabitants were mostly farmers.
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