Both offer remote, sparsely populated areas with low levels of man-made radio interference, along with world-class teams of astronomers.

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These failures could be played down because the events occurred in sparsely populated areas of Hokkaido and northern Honshu.

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The smaller provinces have resisted a census because they fear that sparsely populated areas will get less money from the government.

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The state should no longer subsidise the private pursuit of Arcadia through expensive public services for remote and sparsely populated areas.

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About 5.9m voters were registered in about 9, 000 polling stations, some in remote or sparsely-populated areas that were hard for the opposition or monitors to visit.

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The areas are sparsely populated, and the earthquake was 62 miles beneath the Earth's surface.

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While supermarkets and hypermarkets are more sparsely located owing to their space requirements and high rental rates in densely populated urban areas, drugstores have leveraged their small size, convenient locations and proximity to the consumers and stocked up their grocery supplies to attract traffic.

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