noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a city boundary
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The new housing estates stretch beyond the old city boundaries.
a town/city/county jail
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He was held without bail for thirty days in the county jail.
cardboard city
cathedral city British English (= one with a cathedral )
city centre
city council
city desk
city editor
city fathers
city hall
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The recycling program simply hasn’t been a high priority at City Hall.
city planning
city slicker
city/cat/night etc person (= someone who likes a particular kind of thing )
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I’m not a morning person.
city/garden etc wall
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the ancient city walls
edge city
garden city
host country/government/city etc
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the host city for the next Olympic Games
inner city
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the problems of our inner cities
local/state/city government
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The interference in local government by central government is not just financial, but political.
urban/city planner
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City planners are looking for ways to ease traffic.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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It is Possible that she might have come to the big city on her own.
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I had never lived in a big city before.
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The Metro almost makes driving in a big traffic-choked city a pleasure.
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Whenever I play the big cities now, the anticipation of coming home to the land is overwhelming.
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The village child needs to be aware of the noise and movement of the big city .
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From there it was only twenty miles to the big city .
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We want to build a line which will connect Seatown with the big cities .
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I also shivered because I was so nervous about being alone in this big foreign city with so many white people.
capital
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Rome, in short, lived on its past simply by being a capital city .
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Both here and back in the capital city he would be surrounded by family and people who loved him.
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A tour of our wonderful capital city is not to be missed.
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But this capital city , home to 20 million people, proves far more than the sum of its plagues.
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The minority are much more Anglicized Creoles centered in and around the capital city of Freetown.
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Edinburgh is a capital city for postgraduate study.
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All medical facilities have been heavily concentrated in the capital city .
great
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Romantic behind its walls, yes, but nothing to the great city I had known.
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I love departing from the heart of one great city and coming into the heart of another.
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It spread fast in the contaminated water of the great cities , killing in all four epidemics about 100,000 people.
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Now, however, the great Latin cities fell prey to widespread depopulation, economic decline, and physical decay.
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Birmingham is a great city for a weekend break.
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We want to regard the police chief of our great city with deep respect.
inner
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The urban crisis or the inner city problem conflates a number of quite different economic, political and social issues.
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The counter-demonstrators, a self-avowed violent anti-Klan group, consisted of young blacks and Hispanics from the inner city .
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They could be responsible for managing services covering 4,000 households, a large inner city estate or several former pit villages.
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The clinic records, from an inner city teaching hospital we examined indicate that some believe sildenafil may belong in this category.
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Those schools with the highest percentages of unauthorised absence were all inner city schools.
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On the other hand a garden associated with an inner city dwelling will usually need to have a more formal approach.
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The only exception, Hall argues, is if a new entrepreneurial tradition could be created in the inner city .
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Why should the department suddenly have directed its policies to the benefit of the inner city ?
large
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Moreover, the large city or freight terminals had to have massive capacity to cope with intense seasonal pressures.
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Most large cities with a significant at-risk population now have such a centre.
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Opposing the large cities and states were the Clinton administration and Oklahoma as well as Wisconsin.
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Today, Sutton Coldfield has been swallowed up, at least on paper, by the larger city of Birmingham.
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In larger cities , ties to the land are less important and homogenizing influences have a greater impact.
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Yet starting a daily paper anywhere other than in a few large cities is scarcely an attractive investment.
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In 1853 the population went past fifty thousand and San Francisco became one of the twenty largest cities in the United States.
major
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In other major cities , students came out to voice their grievances, worries and hopes about reform.
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Those companies in major cities will have an easier time finding a consultant than those located in less-populated areas.
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Yvresse has only one major city: Tor Yvresse.
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In 1967, the nation was traumatized by race riots in a number of major cities .
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Riots were increasing over the capital, and communications had been broken with the other two major cities of Nicaea.
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Every province, every major city , has offices in Hong Kong.
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The same story of crumbling Victorian buildings, tunnels, pipes and walls is being repeated in all Britain's major cities .
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In the major cities of this nation, young men are starting drug businesses of their own.
other
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All of the other large cities had trends in the same direction, albeit on a less dramatic scale.
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Like other cities , it bargained with the emperor and also favoured the pope when it suited.
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Similar soviets had emerged in other cities earlier in the year, but that of St Petersburg took on unique importance.
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How many 30-second sound bites have been spent treating outrage in the streets of some other Arab cities as inexplicable?
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The wave of labour unrest coincided with falling share prices and increasing demonstrations by students in Seoul and other cities .
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The Labour Party gains its most consistent successes in London and the other major cities .
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Like every other city she could think of, this one was a mass of snarled traffic.
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This system was also adopted in other large cities .
■ NOUN
centre
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On-site parking for disabled people is available whilst there is both city centre and nearby pay parking.
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The information will be gathered in 4 city centre retail and catering firms and 3 sixth form colleges in Swansea.
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Rail tickets from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport to the city centre and return with all air holidays.
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But these are of course the modern city centre outdoor shops.
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From the highest mountain pass to the busiest city centre .
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Some firms use old abandoned factories near the city centre for their warehouses but most prefer better sites.
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Read in studio A jogger has been stabbed by a group of youths while running through a city centre .
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Parking is available in Taylors Lane as well as the city centre .
council
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Belfast city council reduced rents in Smithfield market by a similar proportion.
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Public agencies get most of their funding from legislatures, city councils , and elected boards.
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Municipal elections in Rome Elections took place on Oct. 29-30, 1989, for the 80-seat city council of Rome.
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The city council done voted to take over these whole twelve blocks.
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Because the city council has this information, it no longer votes on line items: it votes on service levels.
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Birmingham city council says the tour will help it find new ways of dealing with racism.
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It resulted, he says, in people shying away from running for the city council .
dweller
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But then, city dwellers have never been long on modesty.
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Bartlett drew from the old-fashioned uniforms of the virile football player and the preening perfection of the city dweller .
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Far from being desperately poor peasants, the squatters were clearly city dwellers .
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Poverty has become persistent, and apparently self-reinforcing, for millions of city dwellers , most of them black or Hispanic.
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This assistance inevitably spilled over as an increase in general prosperity for the ordinary Milanese city dweller .
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Hospital workers once alert for the sound became inured to it, like city dwellers to the sound of sirens.
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It is the dilemma of city dwellers , of all those refugees from the past in search of the future.
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Police stood at highways and railroad stations to halt the exodus of thousands of city dwellers .
government
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Many neighborhoods and city governments are working on zoning laws, taxes and business regulations for home operations.
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He commutes 30 miles from his home in southwest Portland to a city government job in suburban Gresham.
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The city government has decided to clear the streets of the unsightly pedicab in the interests of humanity and prestige.
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Unlike most candidates calling for change or reform, Brown never had to forcefully criticize city government .
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There were the issues of controversial decisions made by city government .
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Although the city government promised an answer by late December, the appeal still is pending.
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Again, however, there's no evidence that voters wanted city government dismantled.
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In Akron and elsewhere, vibrant city governments are those that work in partnership with the private sector.
hall
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Four thousand miners packed Sheffield's city hall one night that winter.
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How smart of you both just to go off to city hall and get married.
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Put it this way: You gon na have a city , you got ta build a city hall .
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C., state capitols, or city halls .
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Some downtown buildings, including city hall and the county courthouse, were evacuated.
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Zajedno leaders say they will assume control of Nis city hall next Monday.
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That act of citizen charity left Barry free to reclaim city hall once he got out of jail.
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The trio was given a triumphal parade up Broadway, followed by a reception at city hall .
life
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We may reach a point where the public costs of city life have to be greater than the private.
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Thoreau had made the Maine woods, along with Walden, a symbol of freedom from the cares of city life .
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By the late 1980s, the attractions of city life were not what they had once been for the peasants.
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Except for Aunt Pat, my transition to city life was a series of agonies.
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The economic crisis reached into every corner of city life .
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As I say, what Kip and I shared was a quick assimilation into city life .
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Every detail of city life must now be passed through the prism of the Olympics.
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If you enjoy city life , I recommend Galway.
limit
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The would-be acquirer is said to live within the city limits of Santa Clara, California.
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Illiteracy does not restrict itself to city limits or the borders of school districts.
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Eventually a group of Arab youths becomes visible, running down the hill towards the giant Marlboro ad by the city limits .
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Since then, 1, 434 other people have been been killed in the city limits .
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People who reside inside the city limits make up 60 percent of the population of the community.
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I stumbled out of town with barely enough strength to reach the city limits .
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The city limits encompassed 91 square miles, and the water bill for the average household was $ 8.
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Tucson residents financially support libraries outside the city limits as well as those inside them.
manager
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She came to San Diego from Claremont, where she was assistant city manager for seven years.
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Bobb, a former Santa Ana city manager , took the Richmond post in 1986.
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Wyatt liked the city manager , his tiredness and efficiency and harmless irascibility.
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Any city manager accepts the fact that he or she is at the mercy of the council majority, he said.
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Then Michael Brown was appointed city manager .
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Ted Gaebler, then city manager of Visalia, brought it to Visalia six months later.
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Bobb was a finalist for the city manager position in San Diego, but he was not selected.
official
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Then city officials sat tight and hoped it would pay off.
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Center and city officials play down the troubles, saying they are typical of any start-up operation.
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However, city officials make it clear that it will remain the only children's home in Ceuta.
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Most were in their beds when the powerful blast hit the middle-class district of Bowbazaar, said city officials .
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Both sites can hold up to 10, 000 demonstrators, according to city officials .
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For years, annexation has been the primary means by which city officials planned for growth.
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In past studies, city officials have said the problem may not be a lack of spaces but how spaces are used.
wall
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Vaughan eventually found Tyndale in Antwerp and had several talks with him in a meadow outside the city walls .
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As we passed through the city wall , a great shout went up from the occupants of the car.
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In Cracow, sections of the city walls survive from Medieval building.
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It is a Bedouin band; and next morning there remains not a single living soul within those city walls .
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Enjoy a walk along the city walls and a stroll beside the Dee.
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Horns rang out from the city wall .
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The next morning they began their gruelling journey up the ancient Roman road which ran from London's city wall into Oxfordshire.
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Arad's name appeared again outside the fairground, in Vitra's transparent tent erected next to the old city wall .
■ VERB
build
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The surface was paved with massive stones and on these watery foundations Venice was built - a floating city !
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Several times they started to build a city , but they were always driven away by misfortunes or bad omens.
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The High Elves possess a great respect for their land and build their cities in harmony with nature as much as possible.
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He designed the Observatory office building in the city , which later won a Merseyside Civic Society building of the year award.
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Orlando, Florida, even struck a deal in which a developer built a new city hall.
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Large new stations designed to do just that were built in these three cities after the Second World War.
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Aztec settlers built their pyramid city on an island and created dikes to hold back floods.
live
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Ministers should also consider ways of improving sports facilities for youngsters living in inner cities , they claimed.
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I had never lived in a big city before.
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Growing numbers live in the city and travel outwards to work.
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We have lived mostly in cities for less than one thousand years.
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Needless to say, those who lived in the inner cities had a high index of deprivation.
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Half of the U. S. Latino population lives in these cities and the surrounding urban areas.
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Many of us are cut off from the natural Earth currents, especially when we live in cities .
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When gray squirrels live in cities , you can feed them out of your hand.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
city/local/country boy
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For a local boy to come home, this is truly as good as it gets.
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Gary Boyce is a local boy who made it big.
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It was then that she noticed a tall blond man busy coaching some young local boys in football.
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Joseph must have been a country boy .
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Julie was a rich kid who loved to associate with the tougher, more daring local boys .
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Once a happy, handsome country boy , Inman has become hardened, cynical, burned out.
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They went wild with jubilation as they paid homage to the local boy who made President.
city/town/cave etc dweller
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Added to this is the vibration caused by heavy goods vehicles and the annoyance of air traffic suffered by all city dwellers .
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Bartlett drew from the old-fashioned uniforms of the virile football player and the preening perfection of the city dweller .
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But then, city dwellers have never been long on modesty.
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It is the dilemma of city dwellers , of all those refugees from the past in search of the future.
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Most shoppers know that only cave dwellers would pay the list price for electronics goods, for example.
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Poverty has become persistent, and apparently self-reinforcing, for millions of city dwellers , most of them black or Hispanic.
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This assistance inevitably spilled over as an increase in general prosperity for the ordinary Milanese city dweller .
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Unlike many town dwellers , farmers can at least eat well.
freedom of the city
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If so, he should expect the freedom of the city.
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The first boatman to be accepted into the freedom of the city was admitted in 1583.
in fat city
inner city/urban renewal
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Recent approaches to inner city renewal have relied very heavily on institutional innovations and tighter targeting of expenditure patterns.
nationwide/city-wide etc
walled garden/city/town etc
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Accommodation comprises 110 twin bedded bungalows and 15 Duplex Suites each with its own shady terrace and small walled garden.
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At Leicester the market place occupied the whole of the south-eastern quarter of the walled town.
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Founded in 1673, this small walled garden is the oldest botanical garden in the country after Oxford's.
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Like the people of Ferghana, its occupants were a settled people living in walled towns.
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She lives now in converted weaving cottages in Kilbarchan, a walled garden already rich in spring colours.
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The walled garden too had been carefully maintained.
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The existence of walled towns and castles created two problems.
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The house, dairy, farm buildings, walled garden and orchard show what life there was like eighty years ago.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I was alone in a big city in a new country.
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It's an old city with about 200,000 residents.
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Leeds is a thriving, vibrant, and prosperous city .
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Panic swept the city after the earthquake.
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The city of Barcelona is famous for its wonderful architecture.
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The city of Parlier is in Fresno county.
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the ancient city of Damascus
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The major industrial cities were getting increasingly overcrowded.
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You should visit San Francisco. It's a beautiful city .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He blew up five city blocks, of course.
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Many inner cities that were once treated as war zones have become pleasant and habitable again.
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Sant'Elia's city was a utopian metropolis designed on a monumental scale.
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Something that gives shape and meaning to the amorphous experience of waking up in a strange hotel room in a strange city .
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The survey looked at which cities cater for cyclists and covered everything from parking facilities to potholes.
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This romantic tale casts back to Ruritania especially in the implied distinction between city and country.