The Irish first came over in large numbers as convicts ( 50, 000 were transported between 1791 and 1867 ), to be used as free labour ; even larger numbers of free settlers came during the 19th century, partly due to the Donegal Relief Fund.

Irish settlers were brought in small numbers over the years, as from other parts of the United Kingdom.

In 2011 evidence was uncovered in neighbouring East Timor, showing that 42, 000 years ago these early settlers had high-level maritime skills, and by implication the technology needed to make ocean crossings to reach Australia and other islands, as they were catching and consuming large numbers of big deep sea fish such as tuna.

These settlers are believed to have arrived in very substantial numbers and like those who migrated to Iceland and the Faroe Islands it is probable that most came from the west coast of Norway.

The numbers of the native Selk ' nam and Yaghans were greatly reduced by introduced diseases and by unequal conflicts with settlers.

After the Indian Wars and removals of the early 19th century forced most Native Americans out of the state, white settlers arrived in large numbers.

The company belatedly realized that the increasing numbers of American settlers in the area would result in Columbia District becoming part of U. S. territory.

At first Keokuk accepted the loss of land as inevitable in the face of the vast numbers of white soldiers and settlers coming west.

During the eighteenth century, growing numbers of Han Chinese settlers had illegally begun to move into the Inner Mongolian steppe.

New settlers were still arriving in steady numbers and few permanent buildings had been constructed, with most living in tents and other temporary accommodation.

In 1882, the Texas and Pacific Railway began providing service to San Angelo, and settlers started coming into the region in somewhat larger numbers.

To begin with, while there were certainly small numbers of settlers arriving in northern Wyoming, there were not hordes of poor European immigrants streaming en masse into the region, let alone killing rich men's cattle out of hunger.

The arrival of increasing numbers of settlers led to the partitioning of the county in 1888: the eastern third became Deuel County ; the middle third became present-day Cheyenne County ; and the western third became Kimball, Scotts Bluff, and Banner Counties.

A few months later, white settlers returned to The Cabins, this time in greater numbers, and this time to stay permanently.

Not until after the Cherokees were removed in 1838 – 39 did white settlers enter the county in large numbers.

Scottish settlers arrived in large numbers and the town grew quickly.

Most remaining or Dil-ze ' e and Yavapai lost hope of abiding peacefully and unmolested amidst increasing numbers of settlers and left to join returnees from the San Carlos Reservation in nearby communities in Camp Verde and Clarkdale.

It was around 1809 when large numbers of settlers arrived in the area, many of them Dutch and German settlers who came to farm.

By the early 19th century, this once peaceful area became a site of violent confrontations between European-American settlers, arriving in greater numbers and encroaching on Native American land, and the Sauk and Fox tribes.

As the numbers of native Americans dwindled, pioneer settlers began to inhabit the area which would become Munster.

Though early settlers included French, Acadian, German, Danish and Irish, the town's culture and architecture is heavily influenced by the unusually large numbers of English that chose to settle there after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

Had Krim gone farther from New York than Chapel Hill, he might have discovered that large numbers of American Jews do not find his New York version of the Jews' lot remotely recognizable.

He was delighted to learn that the Post Office Department is now going to expand this service to deliver mail from Representatives in Congress to their constituents without the use of stamps, names, addresses or even zone numbers.

In all the bitter in-fighting, the squabbles over election procedures, the complicated numbers game that East and West played on the assistant secretaries' theme, the gentleman from Burma showed himself both as a man of principle and a skilled diplomat.

In total, these increases in operating costs outweigh the savings that result from declining programs and from economy measures, such as reduced numbers of units and installations, smaller inventories of major equipment, and improvements in the supply and distribution systems of the Armed Forces.

The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.

In ever greater numbers, factories are locating in the suburbs or in `` industrial parks '' removed from the city's political jurisdiction.

Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.

In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.

Shayne drove westward from the Boulevard slowly, letting Rourke crane his head out the window and watch for street numbers.

In spite of the increase in numbers and prestige brought about by the conversions of Newman and other Tractarians of the 1840's and 1850's, the Catholic segment of England one hundred years ago was a very small one ( four per cent, or 800,000 ) which did not enjoy a gracious hearing from the general public.

The importance of this 5 can largely be explained by the natural mathematical properties of the middle number and its special relationship to all the rest of the numbers -- quite apart from any numerological considerations, which is to say, any symbolic meaning arbitrarily assigned to it.

Since is the distance from a given number to the mean, one way to interpret this property is as saying that the numbers to the left of the mean are balanced by the numbers to the right of the mean.

Besides the Portuguese, significant numbers of people from other European and from diverse Latin American countries ( especially Brazil ) can be found.

For Euclid ’ s method to succeed, the starting lengths must satisfy two requirements: ( i ) the lengths must not be 0, AND ( ii ) the subtraction must be “ proper ”, a test must guarantee that the smaller of the two numbers is subtracted from the larger ( alternately, the two can be equal so their subtraction yields 0 ).

The reason that we are able to choose least elements from subsets of the natural numbers is the fact that the natural numbers are well-ordered: every nonempty subset of the natural numbers has a unique least element under the natural ordering.

** If the set A is infinite, then there exists an injection from the natural numbers N to A ( see Dedekind infinite ).

* There exists a model of ZF ¬ C in which there is a function f from the real numbers to the real numbers such that f is not continuous at a, but f is sequentially continuous at a, i. e., for any sequence

A multitude of airports around the Alps ( and some within ), as well as long-distance rail links from all neighbouring countries, afford large numbers of travellers easy access from abroad.

The cultivation of sugar was a labour intensive process and the Portuguese began to import large numbers of slaves from the African mainland.

By the late 18th century Lyme Regis had become a popular seaside resort, especially after 1792 when the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars made travel to the European mainland dangerous for the English gentry, and increasing numbers of wealthy and middle class tourists were arriving there.

As the war progressed, with no hope of joining the rebellion due to power of the Royal Navy ( in the letter he had addressed to Bermudians soliciting the theft of the gunpowder, George Washington had written We would not wish to in volve you in an Opposition, in which from your Situation, we should be unable to support you: -- We knew not therefore to what Extent to sollicit your Assistance in availing ourselves of this Supply ), with increasing numbers of Amercan loyalists in Bermuda ( such as the privateer Bridger Goodrich ), and with their economic opportunities dwindling, Bermudians overcame their sympathies for their erstwhile countrymen and unleashed their privateers ( which, by the middle of the 18th Century already outnumbered those of any of the mainland colonies ) upon American shipping.

The third economic center of mainland Southern Italy, the property city, has a population of more than 186, 000 inhabitants spread over 236 km², while the fast-growing urban area numbers 260, 000 inhabitants.

His realm was, however, threatened by dangers from without, as large numbers of his opponents had taken refuge, not only in Iceland, then recently discovered ; but also in the Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands, Hebrides Islands, Faroe Islands and the northern European mainland.

Shortfalls in numbers were made up by recruiting and conscription from the southern régions militaires of mainland France ( Métropole ).

Their range had been largely reduced to small islands of Castle Harbour, but they have re-colonised the mainland, and their numbers are increasing.

Macau also adopted the 999 number ; it also introduced two emergency hotline numbers: 110 ( mainly for tourists from mainland China ) and 112 ( mainly for tourists from overseas ).

In Great Britain their numbers have declined as a breeding bird, retreating north to breed wild only in the Outer Hebrides and the northern mainland of Scotland.

In Wilson's mind it was clear that the use of the bomb to bring the war in Japan to an end, would avoid the loss of large numbers of both allied and Japanese lives by avoiding a drawn-out conflict on the Japanese mainland.

Hawaii ’ s love affair with country music dates back to World War II, the result of the influx of great numbers of military personnel from the mainland USA.

This may have been to secure continued support from the European mainland, at a time when their numbers were low.

Due to the proximity to the Papua New Guinea mainland, the northern Torres Strait islands have been experiencing significant numbers of illegal long-term residents from Papua New Guinea, putting significant strain on scarce local resources such as fresh water.

In South Africa, the Batlokwa are found in significant numbers in the four of the mainland provinces, namely North West, Gauteng, Limpopo and the Free State.

The numbers included approximately 22. 5 million mainland Chinese arrivals, 8. 2 million short-haul ( excluding Mainland ) arrivals, and 4. 8 million long-haul arrivals.

They are the only provider to sell SIMs that provide native phone numbers on both sides of the border ( charging slightly higher rates than local while in the mainland, but cheaper than roaming with another provider-in some cases even cheaper than a SIM from another Chinese province if being used in Shenzhen / Guangzhou area ).

It is surrounded with numbers of banks which are daily discovered by the country people who come to fish from the mainland, which makes me think there is an inexhaustible fund of them about the island.

All species have drastically declined in numbers since Australasia was colonised by Europeans, with one species, the Eastern quoll, becoming extinct on the Australian mainland, now being found only in Tasmania.

Large numbers of Straw-necked Ibis and, to a lesser extent, Australian White Ibis, nest and roost on the islands and fly daily to the mainland for feeding.

After South Africa recognised the Peoples Republic of China in 1998 large numbers of mainland Chinese

This map and others created in the 16th to 18th centuries suggest that foreigners were in China in considerable numbers, sufficient to map accurately much of mainland China and not only the coastal areas.

Government-funded pest control programmes, and captive breeding programmes are critical to helping maintain population numbers on the mainland.

In mainland China, mobile phone numbers have 11 digits in the format 1xx-xxxx-xxxx.