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great and influx
With the transition away from an agricultural-based economy and towards machine-based manufacturing came a great influx of population from the countryside and into the towns and cities, which swelled in population.
Britain experienced a great influx of Viking peoples in the 9th century as the Viking Age continued from the previous century.
The influx of British citizens was so great that by 1760 the English constituted a majority of the population of Demerara.
There is a great influx of population in the summer.
The Berwick area had a large influx of Eastern European immigrants approximately between 1890 – 1920, which had a great impact on the current population that continues to this day.
According to historian Richard Frye, this great influx of knowledge created a renaissance during, and proceeding Khosrau's reign.
Early on, Brown moved out to Los Angeles, where the great influx of blacks created an integrated nightclub scene in which black performers tended to minimize the rougher blues elements of their style.
Traditionally a borough inhabited by the working class, Grorud has in the last few decades had a great influx of immigrants.
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.
Due to its rural location in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Pocklington has not seen any great influx of immigrants since Anglo-Saxon times.
Shu's cotton was a great influx for Wu, and the development of metal industries was greatly increased.
Both grew out of the need to protect and care for the great influx of pilgrims travelling to Jerusalem in the 12th century.
The influx of tourists has led to the restoration of a great number of homes ( many of which were destroyed during World War II ); these restorations, by law, have to conform to " guidelines laid down by the Greek culture ministry's Archaeological Service.
As the area was hardly accessible for Tatar raids, there was a great influx of population from the recently devastated south.
At a public meeting in Henley town hall on 26 March 1839, Captain Edmund Gardiner proposed " that from the lively interest which had been manifested at the various boat races which have taken place on the Henley reach during the last few years, and the great influx of visitors on such occasions, this meeting is of the opinion that the establishing of an annual regatta, under judicious and respectable management, would not only be productive of the most beneficial results to the town of Henley, but from its peculiar attractions would also be a source of amusement and gratification to the neighbourhood, and the public in general.
Since the 1990s, the area has seen a great influx of young artists, professionals, students and " hipsters ", mainly due to its close proximity to Manhattan and major universities ( ex ; Pratt Institute, New York University, School of Visual Arts, Fashion Institute of Technology, The New School ) and the relatively inexpensive rent.
Geographic distribution of the Hokan languages suggests that they became separated around the great central valley of California by the influx of later-arriving Penutian and other peoples ; archaeological evidence for this is summarized in Chase-Dunn & Mann ( 1998 ).
Since the collapse of the communist regimes of eastern Europe, Germany has experienced a great influx of Russian and other Jews from the former Soviet Union.
The great influx of immigrants to Boston in the nineteenth century corresponded with growing anti-Catholic sentiment among the city's aristocratic elite.
There was then a great influx of miners into the area drawn in by ' Red Gold Fever ' ( La Fiebre del Oro Rojo ) and soon Chuquicamata was covered with mines and mining claims, over 400 at one point.
When Cardinal Mundelein died unexpectedly in his sleep in October 1939, Chicago City Hall hastily paved State Street where the subway was being constructed to accommodate the great influx of mourners expected to make the pilgrimage.
After World War II, a great influx of veterans taxed the facilities of the College, requiring the erection of a number of temporary buildings on the campus.
The land, originally dense woodland populated by all manner of wildlife, proved difficult to prepare, yet the urgent need for more housing gave rise to a great influx of labourers, many of whom stayed on in the very houses they helped to build.
Lots of new terraced houses were built to accommodate the great influx of labour that came to work in the North East Coalfields.
The nerve impulse is characterised by a great influx of sodium ions through channels in the neuron's cell membrane followed by an efflux of potassium ions through other channels.

great and Scots
In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.
In the great affair of the Union in 1707, while protesting against the completion of the treaty till the act declaring the Scots aliens should be repealed, he refused to support the opposition to the measure itself and refrained from attending parliament when the treaty was settled.
With the English formations beginning to break, a great shout went up from the Scots, " Lay on!
The histories of the Irish, Welsh, Scots, Breton, Cornish, and Manx Churches diverge significantly after the eighth century ( resulting in a great difference between even rival Irish traditions ).
She lodged in the apartment now known as the Queen of Scots rooms, on the top floor above the great hall, which faces onto the inner courtyard.
He adds that Maelgwn's ancestor Cunedda arrived in Gwynedd 146 years before Maelgwn's reign, coming from Manaw Gododdin, and expelled the Scots the Gaels with great slaughter.
This account reports: " On the death of Malcolm, king of the Scots, great divisions rose among them, in reference to the succession to the crown.
The Bannatyne Manuscript is, with the Asloan and Maitland manuscripts, one of the great sources of Middle Scots literature.
They had settled around the city in a great arc, with Lord Thomas Fairfax's army to the east and the Scots to the south and west.
Though at the Reformation the Stewartry became fervent in its Protestantism, it was to Galloway, through the influence of the great landowners and the attachment of the people to them, that Mary, Queen of Scots, owed her warmest adherents, and it was from the coast of Kirkcudbright that she made her luckless voyage to England.
The letter also mentions that the Scots placed their officers in the front line in medieval style who were vulnerable and killed, contrasting this loss of the nobility with the English great men who took their stand with the reserves and at the rear.
' The infantrymen at Flodden, both Scots and English, had fought in a fashion that in essence would have been familiar to their ancestors, and it has rightly been described as the last great medieval battle in the British Isles.
They ( the Scots ) marched towards the town with great display, in order of battle, and recklessly, stupidly and inadvisedly chose a battle ground at Halidon Hill, where there was a marshy hollow between the two armies, and where a great downward slope, with some precipices, and then again a rise lay in front of the Scots, before they could reach the field where the English were posted.
It is quite acceptable to refer to the great Lowland families as clans also, since the Scots themselves appear to have used both terms interchangeably.
He was closely associated with the court of King James IV of Scotland and produced a large body of work in Scots distinguished by its great variation in themes and literary styles.
Irvine is the site of an incident in 1296 during the Scottish Wars of Independence when an English army marched to Irvine to engage the Scottish army that was encamped at Knadgerhill, only to find that dissension amongst the Scots leaders was so great that armed conflict did not occur and many of the leaders changed sides and joined King Edward I.
The Scots army, again made up chiefly of spearmen as at Stirling, was arranged in four great armoured ' hedgehogs ' known as schiltrons.
A great many Scots were killed, including Macduff, son of the Earl of Fife.
The English elected not to pursue, and despite their great losses the Scots were able to regroup in sufficient number to besiege and capture Wark Castle.
Richard of Hexham says simply that the Scots became aware of the standard ( and by implication the army underneath it ) at no great distance.
Scots immigrants constructed Montreal's first bridge across the Saint Lawrence River and founded many of the city's great industries, including Morgan's, the first department store in Canada, incorporated within the Hudson's Bay Company in the 1970s ; the Bank of Montreal ; Redpath Sugar ; and both of Canada's national railroads.
Between 1318 and 1322, the Scots, under James Douglas, Lord of Douglas, made raids into Yorkshire, devastating great parts of the country, destroying churches and sacking the richest monasteries.

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