adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rural/urban/suburban existence (= life in the country/city/suburbs )
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The girls hated their drab suburban existence.
a suburban commuter
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The majority of suburban commuters were unable to get to New York.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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But the number of suburban areas deemed in need of extra government aid has increased sharply.
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Caffino is also in the process of getting city permits to set up shop in suburban areas of Boston and Chicago.
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They include high-speed chases through densely packed suburban areas , filmed from the air by helicopters.
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Employment of local government inspectors is concentrated in cities and in suburban areas undergoing rapid growth.
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Densities of 30-65 homes / ha in developments of houses with gardens in more remote suburban areas .
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I grew up in a white suburban area of Hartford, Connecticut, and went to a white suburban school.
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The practice of local politics in the rural or suburban areas around metropolitan Britain is essentially the politics of exclusion.
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However, comprehensives in relatively affluent rural and suburban areas will become richer.
community
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In this unremarkable suburban community , Siemens has created a showcase apprenticeship program for electronics technicians.
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It ranks very low among the city and suburban communities in education.
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And in the suburban communities that have grown up around the Valley.
development
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The highest rate of suburban development was in the cities of the North-East.
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Indeed the earliest suburban development preceded railway expansion by a decade or so in the big cities.
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But the existence of the railways made continued suburban development a real possibility.
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The second half of the nineteenth century saw suburban development along the railway lines stretching out of Paris.
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The railways remained vital to suburban development .
family
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The modern suburban family has a relentless appetite for housing, supermarkets and motorways.
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Hope springs - maybe this is a suburban family with a difference?
garden
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Meanwhile, our imaginary owner Mr Moneybags is turning his thoughts to winter interest in his suburban garden .
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The sergeant gazed out at the suburban garden with a gardener's informed eye.
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Each stood separately in its own little suburban garden .
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This tiny rock-edged pool forms a tranquil corner in a suburban garden .
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She went to the window and looked down at our drab patch of suburban garden .
home
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They know a life where everything happens in a big and isolated suburban home .
life
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The main pattern of suburban life is set out in box 17.
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Similarly, a respectable suburban life may well be suppressed by an individual who wants to retain credibility amongst the gang.
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Our suave heroes were transformed into Laurel and Hardy: suburban life speeded up into some manic, coronary inducing rush hour.
service
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They would replace X2000 tilting trains which are not regarded as ideal for outer suburban services with several intermediate stops.
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Hillside Trains and Bayside Trains each have half the electrified Melbourne suburban services .
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They would operate northern routes currently being electrified, and replace 1957-built EMUs on Lisboa suburban services .
street
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The expressway flies over quiet suburban streets with old-fashioned lamps coming on among the elms.
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At last they reached Hastings, where Silas found his way to the suburban street of quality homes.
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Instead, it stands a couple of suburban streets away from the perimeter track, complete with its house number above the door!
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It was semi-detached and mock Tudor, in a quiet suburban street lined with acacia trees and unbroken street lamps.
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He followed her down one quiet suburban street after another till they approached the busy main road.
villa
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We parked in a pleasant street, lined with trees and filled with detached and semi-detached suburban villas .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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suburban attitudes
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suburban life
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a suburban shopping center
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Despite her suburban clothes and appearance she was popular at college.
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She hated her parents' suburban attitudes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was to be on a new site and act as a combined station for suburban and express services.
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The office was a former dental practice in the strip-mall sprawl of suburban San Diego.
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The weather is glorious, so we trot through the suburban roads and leafy lanes, and find a hitherto undiscovered park.
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Then competition with Mission Valley shopping centers and suburban residential growth prompted a rapid decline.
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Under the beards, they may still be suburban , but now they are starving, picking up bricks...
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What it really means is that the new trams are a hybrid between street car and lightweight suburban train.