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.

A few towns in Italy began building in the new style late in the 1480s, but it was only with the French invasion of the Italian peninsula in 1494 – 95 that the new fortifications were built on a large scale.

) 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 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.

Low surface brightness dwarf galaxies are important sources of information for studying dark matter, as they have an uncommonly low ratio of visible matter to dark matter, and have few bright stars at the center which would otherwise impair observations of the rotation curve of outlying stars.

Hatfield and Strohm shared songwriting credits and often sang together in harmony or octaves, creating a memorable " boy-girl " sound rarely encountered in rock ( except in the work of X and a few later indie bands such as Velocity Girl, Hazel, Quasi, Low, Mates of State, and Rainer Maria ).

Now that France had been expelled from Germany, the Low Countries and Italy, Spain became the centre of activity in the next few years.

The 40 megajoules per kilogram or less kinetic energy of projectiles launched at up to 9000 m / s velocity ( if including extra for drag losses ) towards Low Earth Orbit is a few kilowatt-hours per kilogram if efficiencies are relatively high, which accordingly has been hypothesized to be under $ 1 of electrical energy cost per kilogram shipped to LEO, though total costs would be far more than electricity alone.

* Low rates of nucleation of crystals coupled with high diffusivity to force growth of a few large crystals instead of many smaller crystals

Low levels of maternal gene flow from North Africa and the Horn of Africa were also observed in a few groups, mainly via the presence of mtDNA haplogroup M and haplogroup I lineages in about 12. 5 % of the Maasai and 7 % of the Samburu samples, respectively.

This park is one of the few protected places of Open Woodland / Low Heathland in the area.

This theme played out with many artists from the Low Countries in the first few decades of the 17th century, where it became associated with the Utrecht Caravaggisti like Gerrit van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen, and with Flemish Baroque painters such as Jacob Jordaens.

In fact, except for a few short trips to locations in the Low Countries, he remained in Antwerp his entire life.

The " black gown ", considered wrongly as the ensign of Low Church views, survives in comparatively few even of evangelical churches ; however, preachers of university sermons retained the custom of wearing the gown of their degree.

Apart from some of the clergy who had studied at the universities and cathedral schools in Paris or in Cologne, there were few scholars in the land ; even amongst the higher clergy there were many who were ignorant of the scientific study of Latin, and the ordinary burgher of the Dutch cities was quite content if, when his children left school, they were able to read and write the Medieval Low German and Diets.

People there held few slaves, and they had poor transportation, deep poverty, and a standing resentment against the Low Country politicians who dominated the Confederacy and conservative Democracy in Reconstruction and after.

As well as Standard Dutch, the local inhabitants speak a variety of Dutch Low Saxon, which is considered to be a member of the Sallaands sub-dialect, with a few Tweants traits that are a natural result of the village's proximity to Tweante.

While there are currently no results, there are a few projects underway which hope to make headway in this area in the near future, such as the Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization ( PAPER ), Low Frequency Array ( LOFAR ), Murchison Widefield Array ( MWA ), Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope ( GMRT ), and the Large-Aperture Experiment to Detect the Dark Ages ( LEDA ).

The Saterland Frisian is the only remnant of East Frisian language and is surrounded by Low German, as are the few remaining North Frisian varieties, and the Low German dialects of those regions have Frisian influences from Frisian substrates.

Brian Sykes commented on the " Flemish " explanation that the levels of blood group A in the Low Countries are not particularly high, but that it is not possible to decide from blood sampling whether the high levels in ' Little England ' were caused by rampaging Vikings or by a few cartloads of Belgians.

* Rheinische Dokumenta, a phonetic alphabet for many West Central German, the Low Rhenish, and few related languages

I Am Dull Grass Around this time, Kozelek commandeered a tribute album to John Denver, entitled Take Me Home: A Tribute to John Denver, featuring Will Oldham, The Innocence Mission, and Low to name a few.

He dropped the title to Low Ki a few months later.

It is of the order of a few thousand amperes for a standard domestic mains electrical installation, but may be as low as a few milliamperes in a SELV ( Safety Extra Low Voltage or, occasionally, Separated Extra Low Voltage ) system or as high as hundreds of thousands of amps in large industrial power systems.