Synonym: bucolic, countrified, provincial, rustic. Antonym: urban. Similar words: naturally, cultural, naturalist, structural, agricultural, accurate, encourage, accuracy. Meaning: ['rʊrəl /'rʊərəl] adj. 1. living in or characteristic of farming or country life 2. relating to rural areas.
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91. This is early-20th-century rural Sussex, when horses still pulled the plough.
92. We can legitimately ask what competence an official based in Whitehall has to solve the problems of rural Scotland.
93. It is a love story set against a backdrop of rural Irish life.
94. Some rural schools have 50 pupils, while at the other end of the scale are city schools with nearly 5,(sentencedict.com)000 pupils.
95. Rural areas have been traditionally thought of as a stronghold of old-fashioned attitudes.
96. In the rural areas, people could scrape by, thanks to what they grew themselves.
97. As rural factories shed labour, people drift towards the cities.
98. Rural depopulation is a matter of serious concern.
99. Many rural areas have acted in similar fashion.
100. Compared to Los Angeles, Santa Barbara almost seems rural.
101. The combined effect has been to translate regions that were once largely rural into bastions of urbanization.
102. A once charming rural idyll, Emmerdale had become a moral cesspit.
103. Even now it is the magnet that draws the rural peasants and small businessmen looking for work and casual labour.
104. In the more traditional agrarian societies these mobile constructors formed an important bridge between rural and industrial life.
105. By far the greatest proportion of those joining the new congregations were Presbyterians and they were mostly from rural areas.
106. Why did this chronic shortage of rural council housing persist?
107. The authors point out that their study was done in a rural area and results may differ with urban clients.
108. West Cranmore Station Somerset typical of the rural branch lines of the country.
109. Further along, one could see where the street passed over a round-backed bridge and on into more rural surroundings.
110. Meanwhile, authorities can take advantage of experience with the existing system in both rural and urban areas.
111. In many rural areas the tree was deemed sacred and thus is widely planted in churchyards.
112. The proportion of the population living and employed in rural areas declined sharply.
113. Much academic attention has been focused on the classification of the social groups comprising the new types of communities in rural areas.
114. This model will be used to evaluate alternative policies for encouraging economic development in rural Grampian and similar rural areas.
115. Car ownership rates are higher in rural areas than the national average.
116. The stability of the rural economy may, inpart be dependent on the effects of climatic change.
117. Changing economic circumstances and social aspirations have led to increased interest in rural life and in the particular problems facing rural people.
118. The regenerative technologies are beneficial for both farmers and rural environments.
119. The first principal component, carrying 50 percent of the original variance, was dominated by land-cover differences in the rural area.
120. To overcome these problems, small schools in some rural areas have formed cooperative clusters whereby teachers provide curriculum support for each other.
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