1.   The chatter of playing children drifted over from the tent village beside the rows of parked trucks.

2.   It began as a small tent village for a few hundred soldiers.

3.   It began after lunch with the sound of distant chanting on the far side of the huge tent village.

4.   The companies have arrayed themselves within four fenced and closely guarded tent villages, each covering several acres.

5.   They had dismantled one tent village in Pansjhir, only to create another in Istalif.

6.   Although the government has offered temporary housing in tent villages, many residents of the shanty towns, fearing deportation, have gone elsewhere.

7.   People living in a tent village since their homes were destroyed by Luis last year were moved to shelters on St. Maarten.

8.   The residents of Jalozai Camp, a squalid tent village, have not yet been given the refugee status by Pakistan, depriving them of much of international relief.

9.   But on arrival the refugees find an impressive tent village at the foot of a high mountain range.

10.   They will be staying in a tent village especially erected for them at the US base in the town, before being sent to Bosnia, a spokeswoman said.