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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After 1850 Paris grew quickly into a busy metropolis .
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Our aim is to make Sydney the musical metropolis of the world.
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They drove quickly, leaving the immense metropolis behind them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For the time, he was the most important man in the metropolis .
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He felt the attraction of the literary life of the metropolis .
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It was a metropolis of two streets, after all, and everyone saw everybody else six times a day.
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Moated Norfolk, Theodora thought, and moated house, defended against the falsity, rapacity and sheer ugliness of the metropolis .
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Sant'Elia's city was a utopian metropolis designed on a monumental scale.
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They are the last pro sports team left in the United States that does not play in a metropolis .
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Wealth, culture, and international adventure had turned a tiny collection of huts into a huge sandstone metropolis .