1 Many prisons, even today, are overcrowded and squalid places.

2 The suitcase was too overcrowded to close.

3 The hospital is so overcrowded that some patients are being treated on trolleys in the corridors.

4 To ease the problem of overcrowding, new prisons will be built.

5 The world market for telecommunications is already overcrowded with businesses.

6 The prisons are overcrowded.

7 Staff had to work in overcrowded conditions .

8 Students were protesting at overcrowding in the university hostels.

9 There are plans to relieve overcrowding in the village.

10 Overcrowding and poor sanitation are common problems in prisons.

11 They were forced to live in overcrowded and insanitary conditions.

12 The students were protesting at overcrowding in the university hostels.

13 I saw so many people overcrowding in the room than I expected.

14 Thousands of refugees are packed into over-crowded towns and villages.

15 The 200-year-old jail is overcrowded(), understaffed and lacking in basic amenities.

16 The government takes a cavalier attitude to the problems of prison overcrowding.

17 He argued that the overcrowded cities were the product of a system based on "selfishness" and "rapacity".

18 An overcrowded workplace can be a major source of stress.

19 The government has set up a working party on prison overcrowding.

20 Investment in the railway network would reduce overcrowding on the roads.

21 Meyer-Lindenberg said that social fragmentation, noise or over-crowding might all be factors.

22 Luckily for Riders fans the world over, they accidentally hadn't killed any of Love Supply and, due to an over-crowding problem in the joint, all non-murderers were released in January, 1985.

23 The original intention of imposing a branching restriction on foreign banks was to avoid over-crowding in the retail banking market.

24 "Local mothers are being forced to give birth in the corridors of hospitals because mainland mothers are over-crowding our hospitals, " Annie Yam, a mother of two who took part in the march, told AFP.