1.   Amongst the general population of children in ordinary schools, about a sixth have special educational needs of one kind or another.

2.   As a whole group they are in relative or absolute poverty, in contrast to the general adult population of working age.

3.   Bloodletting is popular among the doctors and apothecaries, but herbal medicine, witchcraft and spells are rampant in the general population.

4.   But overall growth in the labor force will be only about as fast as growth in the general population.

5.   Each sales team targets its efforts at a particular segment of the general population.

6.   Ethnic minorities suffer more than the general population.

7.   For the general population, beta carotene is not a magic bullet.

8.   In our study, significantly more miners complained of weight loss than the general population.