1.  A higher proportion of patients with diabetes in rural areas had advanced retinopathy identified by the screening unit compared with urban patients.

2.  After the war, many people returned to rural areas in a desperate search for food.

3.  Although Kilmarnock is an industrial area, there is a large rural area in the constituency in the heart of Ayrshire.

4.  Analysts worry that poor infrastructure, especially in rural areas, will derail attempts to fight poverty.

5.  Ancient traditions are very much alive in rural areas.

6.  Assisting people in rural areas by making concessionary fares on local public transport widely available.

7.  But in many rural areas the only real choice is the one local school.

8.  But land reform could create the jobs which poor people from rural areas seek in city slums.

9.  By far the greatest proportion of those joining the new congregations were Presbyterians and they were mostly from rural areas.