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provincial town

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provincial
adjective
uk /prəˈvɪn.ʃəl/ us /prəˈvɪn.ʃəl/
relating to an area that is governed as part of a country or ...
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town
noun
uk /taʊn/ us /taʊn/
a place where people live and work, containing many houses, shops, places of work, places of entertainment, etc., and usually larger than a village but smaller than ...
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Examples of provincial town


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Prior to 1949, it was a rather small, provincialtown, largely isolated from the currents of change in other par ts of the country.
Just think of an old provincialtown, where the joiners built windows during the winter to have in stock for later use.
Ottoman subjects also organized such campaigns: residents of a neighborhood or a provincialtown, representatives of various confessional communities, or voluntary societies of various sorts.
He is no longer in a provincialtown.
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Take the weekly wage of a postman in a large provincialtown.
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Certainly, it could not be found in any provincialtown.
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I doubt whether there is a provincialtown in this country which could equal that.
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I happened to be in a provincialtown on the day of its university's degree congregation.
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In a provincialtown people know who are representing them on the local councils.
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In a provincialtown everyone counts for something.
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It is not intended that in every provincialtown there is to be a law school.
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Data can be processed just as easily and speedily in some provincialtown.
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We are not a little village, and we are not a provincialtown.
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A correspondent wrote to me from a large provincialtown complaining that she could not secure justice in respect of proceedings she wished to institute for maintenance against her husband.
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I know an estate outside a provincialtown which was developed between the two wars, and which most people regard as one of the finest examples in that area.
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Our people there have to forgo the arrogance which is not becoming anywhere, even in a provincialtown back home.
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That means an area of ground with measurements ranging from 800 to 1,000 yards—quite a substantial area near a great city or a provincialtown.
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That is not one of the cities which has been mentioned, but it is a provincialtown of considerable importance.
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Instead of having to ask to set up a company in a provincialtown, they can be given a general authority to do that sort of thing.
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