It is doubtless that we are experiencing a dilution of microdialects and accents, however this merely reflects the greater physical and social mobility of the population at large.

BBC: Glaswegian goes east

There are reams of papers showing that the physical and mental health of a population are important for economic growth, the better both are the more growth there will be.

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The effect of this tardiness has been to put physical activity in reverse gear compared with population trends and advances in tobacco and alcohol control and diet.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

With advances in measuring physical activity levels, we have discovered, to our horror, that 95% of the UK population are not even doing the minimum recommended amounts of physical activity to confer even basic health benefits (30 minutes' moderate to vigorous physical activity on at least five days a week - or the equivalent).

BBC: Laziness will send us to an early grave

We used to use 30-50% of the population working in factories to make the physical goods we wanted.

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The IQOE aims to collaboratively engage the global oceanographic community by combining the expertise of physical oceanographers, acousticians, behavioral biologists, ecosystem modelers, and population biologists.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Intel notes the inarguable trends in a growing global population, urbanization, and automobile ownership which will continue to make physical travel more time consuming, expensive and an impossible hassle.

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