1.   Companies are put off investing in poor areas because of the meagre pickings to be had.

2.   Currently, subsidies that were envisaged as a way of protecting farmers in poor areas are being commercially exploited by wealthy landowners.

3.   Doctors are encouraged through financial incentives to work in poor areas.

4.   Moreover, even these poor areas do, in fact, contain substantial numbers of moderately affluent people.

5.   Raul grew up in a poor area of Buenos Aires.

6.   Saint Antoine, south-eastern suburb of Paris, a desperately poor area in the eighteenth century, with many starving unemployed.

7.   The disease only lingers on in very poor areas.

8.   He was born in a poor area of south London.

9.   Deptford is a poor area, Floyd, you noticed that?

10.   The problem is particularly acute in poor rural areas such as Kwazulu and the Transkei, where fuelwood needs are leading to rapid depletion.