rural

These plants grow in the more rural areas.

They live in rural Wales.

the closure of rural schools

One in iowa city, the other in rural illinois.

By 1900, in some parts of Western Europe life expectancy in the cities began to surpass that of the rural areas.

To determine whether this was true, Kettlewell released thousands of light and dark moths (each marked with a paint spot) into rural and industrialized areas.

Another advantage was Britain’s large population of rural, agricultural wage earners, as well as cottage workers, who had the potential of being more mobile than peasants of some other countries.

For more than a hundred years, it has been known that cities are generally warmer than surrounding rural areas.

In rural areas, a large part of the incoming solar energy is used in evaporating water from vegetation and soil.

Hence, during warm daylight hours, less evaporative cooling in cities allows surface temperatures to rise higher than in rural areas.

The slow release of heat tends to keep nighttime city temperatures higher than those of the faster-cooling rural areas.

The slow but steady transformation of European society from almost completely rural and isolated to relatively more urban constituted the greatest effect of the commercial revolution that began in the eleventh century.

It's remained an egalitarian and rural society, so what does that tell us about the usual assumption?

Local rulers could no longer protect their relatives and attendants in legal cases, and with the ending in 1905 of the practice of forcing peasant farmers to work part-time for local rulers, the rulers no longer had a regular base for relations with rural populations.

The same situation viewed from the perspective of the rural population is even more complex.

According to the government’s first census of the rural population, taken in 1905, there were about thirty thousand villages in Siam.

Over the course of the Fifth Reign (1868 –, the ties that bound rural people to the aristocracy and local ruling elites were greatly reduced.

Numerous changes accompanied these developments. The rural population both dispersed and grew, and was probably less homogeneous and more mobile than it had been a generation earlier.

More economic variation took shape in rural villages, as some grew prosperous from farming while others did not.

As well as can be measured, rural standards of living improved in the Fifth Reign.

Out in remote areas of the countryside, in rural locations, music was more traditional, the same songs that were enjoyed by previous generations.

Cities, then, are warmer than the surrounding rural areas, and together they produce a phenomenon known as the urban heat island.

The maximum differences in temperature between neighboring urban and rural environments is called the heat-island intensity for that region.

It wasn’t only poking fun at Sally, but the whole idea that our school is sort of rural, and you know, not cosmopolitan.

The wind was one reason, nothing sticking out might blow away in the harsh weather, but there was probably another reason, not related to the climate, more reflection of a rural New England society back then.

So all these help to create an attitude of conformity in the community, and you can see why a modest, a very plain style would become so widely imitated throughout rural New England.

Populations cannot grow unless the rural economy can produce enough additional food to feed more people.

Increased agricultural production in turn facilitated rural industry, an intrinsic part of the expansion of industry.

Rural occupations are the most common in the country.

He spoke with a heavy rural accent.