noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an exclusive suburb/area
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They live in an exclusive suburb on the north side of the city.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
affluent
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Their housing situation is not atypical, even for this affluent suburb .
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Lisa Tessler is from an affluent suburb of New York.
eastern
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But the scheme has given little reassurance to families in Skopje's eastern suburbs .
leafy
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In addition to the palatial and leafy suburbs , there are areas of inner-city terraced housing awaiting redevelopment and large outlying council estates.
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A far cry from the leafy suburbs of Sydenham.
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She bought a long lease on the apartment in quiet and respectable Hahnwald, a leafy and staid suburb of Cologne.
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Voters living in leafier suburbs might have thought differently.
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When their lot improves, immigrants tend to move out to leafier suburbs .
new
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They financed a whole new suburb , Shaker Heights, early this century.
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We were not in central Washington, you understand, but in a new suburb .
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The new suburbs have seven houses to the acre, whereas the old city had 30.
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From here is a view of the new , box-like suburbs of N, S and N-W Prague.
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St John's Wood, smart new suburb of north London.
northern
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These were superseded by more substantial updraught kilns which have been found right across the northern suburbs .
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Even the water tower in Addison, a northern suburb , is bathed in blue light.
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A feeder tramway would link the extension to the northern suburb of Bohnice.
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The first branch, in the northern Houston suburb of Spring, changed its hours in October 1999.
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Seductive country, then, to charm a young London schoolteacher away from the semi-rural but crowded northern suburbs of the capital.
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Nuclear plants are sprinkled liberally across the capital, with a particularly dense clump in the northern suburbs .
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As they left the northern suburbs , the car began to tremble in Jed's hands.
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When Peter was made curate in a northern suburb of Bristol, Anna celebrated the event by becoming pregnant.
outer
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He had been there for an hour in the darkness of the abandoned marshalling yard in the outer suburbs of East Berlin.
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The vistas of fir forests, islands and lakes disintegrated into an outer London suburb and a mundane wife called Letitia.
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As they reached the outer suburbs it began to drizzle slightly and Preston switched the wipers on.
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Ringways Two and Three threatened the middle-class outer suburbs .
southern
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Pierry Pierry, once a separate village, is now a continuation of the southern suburbs of Épernay.
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Praha Metro is also planning a fourth route linking the city centre and the southern suburbs .
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For the time being we reside with her parents in their small but practical house in the southern suburbs of Berlin.
wealthy
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Newcastle City now includes the very wealthy suburb of Gosforth.
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The Berzinses' spacious house is in a wealthy suburb of Indianapolis.
western
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The train hastened through the flat Thames Valley fields and flat Western suburbs with single-minded impatience.
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They had died in battle in a Western suburb of the city.
white
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There are few votes to be won in the rich white suburbs by promising to move poor blacks there.
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Compton still felt to me like a quiet, mostly white suburb with narrow cement streets shaded by carob trees.
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Even affluent blacks are choosing to live together rather than move into predominantly white suburbs .
■ VERB
live
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They could live in pleasant suburbs and travel to work; they could take off to previously distant areas for their holidays.
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Whether they lived in suburbs or cities, when elderly women ventured out, they were the overwhelming victims of street violence.
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However, many people living in towns and cities do, in fact, live in suburbs .
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Another thing was that most of the Republicans who might have filled the bill lived in the suburbs .
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She is a 34-year-old lady who lives in the suburbs of a city with her husband or partner.
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Voters living in leafier suburbs might have thought differently.
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And anyone who lives in a suburb should steal one if necessary.
move
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But between 1850 and 1920 some 15 percent of the total population of the United States moved to the suburbs .
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So more and more families moved to the suburbs , with better schools their prime objective.
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He switched on the engine, and the car began to move swiftly through the suburbs where she lived.
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Fifth, families moved to the suburbs .
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When their lot improves, immigrants tend to move out to leafier suburbs .
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Also, he said, more families have moved to the suburbs , where transit is not always an easy alternative.
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White people with money have all moved to the suburbs .
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Even affluent blacks are choosing to live together rather than move into predominantly white suburbs .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All the social workers come in from their comfortable homes in the suburbs.
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Amy teaches at a primary school in a suburb of Atlanta.
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I was born and brought up in a suburb of New York City.
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More and more people are moving to the suburbs every year.
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My family moved to the suburbs when I was ten.
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They have just bough a house in Pacific Palisades, a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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City officials are wary of population loss to suburbs and point with pride to the overall population gain that has accompanied annexation.
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Even in the richest suburbs there are well-concealed but frequently extensive neighborhoods inhabited by poor people.
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His parents lived in the Balmoral suburb of south Belfast.
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It invented the suburb - the most successful invention in the history of human habitation.
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Last year his family bought a villa in a smart Athens suburb .
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The city and its suburbs have some 2, 000 public grade crossings, 268 with whistle bans.
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The falls are at Neuhausen, an extension of Schaffhausen to the south, rather than a suburb of it.
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The rich send their children to private schools and the middle classes move to the suburbs.