1.   By our standards the parts of the Western Isles that we were able to visit are not a particularly depressed area.

2.   Economically depressed areas in the northeast will receive extra EU funding.

3.   Improvements to public infrastructure is one way of making depressed areas more attractive to private industry.

4.   Improvements to public infrastructure were emphasized as a means of making depressed areas more attractive to private industry.

5.   Most people enrolled in the food stamp program live in depressed urban areas.

6.   Other depressed areas also lost much, if not all, their natural increase in population.

7.   The government, through its regional policy, also provides assistance to companies creating jobs in depressed areas.

8.   The scheme was intended to provide financial help to unemployed workers in depressed areas who were prepared to move to other areas.

9.   This was not just a matter of revival of basic industries in previously depressed areas.

10.   ...an economically depressed area.