Telephone service, however, is largely limited to the islands ' few towns.

In the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand, few towns are without a fish and chip shop.

In the course of a few hours, nobles, clergy, towns, provinces, companies and cities lost their special privileges.

A few towns were starting to emerge.

Craftsmen formed guilds, governed by strict rules, which sought to obtain control of the towns ; a few were open to women.

In the course of a few hours, nobles, clergy, towns, provinces, companies, and cities lost their special privileges.

The crusaders arrived at Jerusalem in June 1099 ; a few of the neighbouring towns ( Ramla, Lydda, Bethlehem, and others ) were taken first, and Jerusalem itself was captured on July 15.

Although communist networks in Phnom Penh and in other towns under Tou Samouth's jurisdiction fared better, only a few hundred communists remained active in the country by 1960.

They were primarily farmers who lived in towns, organized into small kingdoms, however, within three decades an estimated Indian population of one million plummeted to a few tens of thousands, as approximately half of the indigenous people in western Nicaragua died of diseases brought by the Spaniards.

English resistance was reduced to a few isolated castles, walled towns and fortified manor houses.

Nonetheless, passenger boats are still popular in some mountainous regions, such as Western Hubei and Chongqing ( the Three Gorges area ), where railways are few and road access to many towns is inconvenient.

The cities were very small, really no more than towns, and were concentrated along the coast and in a few inland valleys.

) Because ranching required little labor, merely a few gauchos, the interior lacked a peasantry and large towns.

Unguja, the larger island, offered a protected and defensible harbor, so although the archipelago offered few products of value, the Persians settled at what became Zanzibar City (" Stone Town ") as a convenient point from which to trade with East African coastal towns.

Although a few towns with New York land titles, notably Brattleboro on the Connecticut River, supported the change, the vast majority of the settlers in the sparsely populated frontier region rejected the authority of New York.

Horncastle is situated only a few miles from his Revesby Estate and Banks himself was the towns Lord of the Manor.

A few towns in the Low Countries dated back to Roman times, but most had been founded from the 9th century onward.

A few ghost towns get a second life, often due to heritage tourism's generating an economy able to support residents.

Ferrara has many early Renaissance palaces, often retaining terracotta decorations ; few towns of Italy as small have so many, though most are comparatively small in size.

Scores of other mining camps have faded into ghost towns, but quite a few camps such as Central City, Black Hawk, Georgetown, and Idaho Springs survive.

Though supported only by the towns and a few of the younger barons, he triumphed by superior generalship at the Battle of Lewes on 14 May 1264, where the king, Prince Edward, and Richard of Cornwall fell into his hands.

Though most of India has migrated to motorised auto rickshaws, hand-pulled rickshaws do exist in a few pockets and towns.

Abandoned mills and factories can be found in small towns and villages, and a few have been converted to tourist attractions, such as the coal mine at La Mure.

There have been few efforts to eliminate the two-seat arrangement, since a county seat is a source of pride ( and jobs ) for the towns involved.

There was one sterile period: only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and, except for the poems written on the trip to Italy in 1887, very few from 1882 to 1890.

Nevertheless the Lombards viewed Italy as a rich land which promised great booty, assets Alboin used to gather together a horde which included not only Lombards but many other peoples of the region, including Heruli, Suebi, Gepids, Thuringii, Bulgars, Sarmatians, the remaining Romans and a few Ostrogoths.

In the 2001 film Hannibal, Hannibal Lecter sends Clarice Starling a letter which he writes while intentionally wearing a hand lotion containing ambergris, correctly assuming that this would ultimately aid her in discovering his location in Florence, Italy, due to it being legal only in few parts of the world.

He founded the Carnegie Hero Fund for the United States and Canada in 1904 ( a few years later also established in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany ) for the recognition of deeds of heroism.

He also has a few buildings in the France, Germany, Italy and the USA.

His mind was entirely absorbed in the labors of his studio, and, with the exception of his journeys to Paris, one to Vienna, and a few short intervals of absence in Florence and other parts of Italy, he never quit Rome.

Belgian hip hop music has a few rappers stemming from Africa and Italy.

* Bridgelayer: The US field-converted a few M4 in Italy with A-frame-supported bridge and heavy rear counter-weight to make the Mobile Assault Bridge.

Under Justinian I, reigning in the 6th century, parts of Italy were for a few decades ( re ) conquered from the Ostrogoths: thus, this famous mosaic, featuring the Byzantine emperor in the center, can be admired at Ravenna.

Four years later, after the 1998 World Cup, Hagi decided to retire from the national team, only to change his mind after a few months and play at the 2000 European Football Championship, during which he was sent off in the quarter-final loss against Italy.

In his first few years in Italy, he won three dramatic victories — Trebia, Trasimene, and Cannae, in which he distinguished himself for his ability to determine his and his opponent's strengths and weaknesses, and to play the battle to his strengths and the enemy's weaknesses — and won over many allies of Rome.

According to Polybius he arrived in Italy accompanied by 20, 000 foot soldiers and 4, 000 horsemen, and only a few elephants.

For the next few years, Hannibal was forced to sustain a scorched earth policy and obtain local provisions for protracted and ineffectual operations throughout southern Italy.

A few months before his arrival Garibaldi had seized the Kingdom of Naples, and all of Southern Italy and Sicily had been annexed to the new Kingdom of Italy.

In Spain, Italy, and the Holy Roman Empire, sodomy between women was included in acts considered unnatural and punishable by burning to death, although few instances are recorded of this taking place.

The trend is set to continue over the next few years-the region's economy being among the most dynamic in Italy.

A similar association of " motel " to short-stay hotels with reserved parking and luxury rooms which can be rented by couples for a few hours has begun to appear in Italy, where the market segment has shown significant growth since the 1990s and become highly competitive.

In Italy alone at least three hundred cultivars have been enumerated, but only a few are grown to a large extent.

Tom Veal has noted that the early play The Two Gentlemen of Verona reveals no familiarity on the playwright's part with Italy other than " a few place names and the scarcely recondite fact that the inhabitants were Roman Catholics.

It was attended by 105 bishops ( chiefly from Italy, Sicily, and Sardinia, with a few from Africa and other quarters ), held five sessions or secretarii from 5 October to 31 October 649, and in twenty canons condemned Monothelitism, its authors, and the writings by which Monothelitism had been promulgated.

Few of the records of transactions outside Rome that could help us understand the history of this Papacy survive from Benedict's reign, and because of the disruptions caused by the Lombards in Italy, perhaps few ever existed.

However, when Silverius returned to Italy, instead of holding a trial Belisarius handed him over to Vigilius, who according to The Liber Pontificalis banished Silverius to the desolate island Palmarola ( part of the Pontine Islands ), where he starved to death a few months later.

During his two years as pope, Stephen confirmed the privileges of a few religious houses in France and Italy.

However few of Nepos ' contemporaries were willing to support his cause after he fled Italy.