thinly-populated

Why had the U.S. staked so much on a remote, thinly-populated valley in the first place?

Nick Mills: Korangal, and Karzai 2010

Why had the U.S. staked so much on a remote, thinly-populated valley in the first place?

Korangal, and Karzai 2010

It is a great boon to traders, who can do nothing in these thinly-populated regions without trusting goods to agents and petty dealers, who frequently squander them away in gambling and debauchery.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

They hold remarkable potential, especially for remote or thinly-populated regions, and for societies eager to reap the benefits of 21st century technology even before completing expensive land-based networks.

Vp Gore To G 7 Ministers Meeting On Gii ITY National Archives 1995

Voters queued from as early as 3am, but polling slowed to a trickle by midday in parts of the thinly-populated south and the Namib

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

It had been a stage on the high road from Lancaster to Carlisle, and though it lay high and bleak among the fells, and was a cold, windy, thinly-populated place -- filling all travellers with thankfulness that they had not been made Shappites, nevertheless, it had had its glory in its coaching and posting.

Can You Forgive Her? 1993

It was, he imagined, the calm before the storm; the tempest would be raging round him soon in all its fury; and moving the empty horn cups aside -- the relics of the night's carousal -- he reached down a volume from the thinly-populated bookshelf, hoping to calm his excited feelings by arousing an interest which might for a time distract his attention from the forthcoming trial.

Heiress of Haddon William E. Doubleday

Chinamen, convicts, and Hindu coolies, in perpetual bustle and commotion, manifest an activity unique in the thinly-populated interior of Sumatra, dependent on the labour of alien races.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

Mallee, and would have run a good chance of dying of starvation in that thinly-populated district.

The Lost Valley James Morgan Walsh 1924

A thinly-populated country -- vast stretches of wild uncultivated land, full of dense forests, rich in trees most favourable to Elementals, and watered by deep, silent tarns, and stealthily moving streams, -- its very atmosphere is impregnated with lycanthropy.

Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918