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.

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 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.

But what few containers they found were inadequate.

Already a few hardy folk from their own train were zealously chipping away at the register rocks, leaving their own records along with those made by the earlier trains.

Within a decade or less, few men were left and a feminist society had sprung up.

There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent.

More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind, intrinsic, because they were known in the beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them.

I leave it to the statisticians to say what they were, but I noticed several a few years ago, during an automobile ride from Memphis to Hattiesburg.

All Captain Gibault took back to Salem were a few items for the town's East India Museum.

A few weeks later the maps were being divided into squares and a position was described as being `` about lots 239, 247 and 272 with pickets forward as far as 196 ''.

The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.

In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.

Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.

It usually turned out well for him because either he liked the right people or there were only a few wrong people in the town.

In spite of his being well liked there were a few people who were very careful about Alfred.

There were a few reasons for that, too: Garibaldi had been taken up and exploited by the Communists nowadays.

Granted that the Tammany name and the Tammany tiger often were regarded as badges of political shame, the sachems of the Hall also have a few good marks to their credit.

In Houston, there were a few incidents of friction between whites and Negroes, none of which were serious.

A few weeks ago, I read in the Bulletin that there were to be given Chinese classes in Cranston.

I feel that few burglars would be prone to break and enter into someone's apartment if they were met with a good hardy growl that a dog would provide.

A few days before I saw your mention of what Texas Liberals were doing to promote `` Louis Capet '' ( The Week '', June 3 ), another analogy had occurred to me.

However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs.

The larger ships were near Paulus Hook, already being called, by a few, Jersey City.