1.   Other surveys, including those carried out in relatively prosperous areas such as Bristol made similar estimates.

2.   Regional policies designed to promote employment sought to maintain population levels in the less prosperous areas by curbing voluntary out-migration.

3.   Sales have grown fastest in the more prosperous areas of the south.

4.   Similarly, in the North there are prosperous areas within otherwise depressed regions.

5.   In some prosperous areas, local people pay private security firms.

6.   This was the most prosperous area with the best climate, richest land and closest proximity to European influence.

7.   All three papers that showed growth, for example, are in economically prosperous areas.

8.   Consider, for instance, Lincoln Park, a prosperous area of the city.

9.   Even in prosperous areas, further development is now hampered by widespread corruption, debt-plagued state industries and inadequate development of reliable commercial law.

10.   Instead of building these apartments in distressed areas, the apartments were to be built in more prosperous areas of Dallas and its -- gulp -- suburbs.