in the neighbourhood of something

neighbourhood | Business English

neighbourhood
noun[ C ]
UK(USneighborhood)uk /ˈneɪbəhʊd/us
an area of a town, or the people who live or work in this area:
The company aims to set up a nursery school in every neighbourhood.
The $150 million bond issue will eventually yield grants aimed at revitalizing commercial corridors in the city's neighborhoods.
low-/middle-/upper-income neighbourhoods
 in the neighbourhood of sth
in the area near a particular place:
The houses, built for University professors are located in the neighborhood of St. Anthony Park.
approximately:
It retails for in the neighborhood of $499.

Examples of neighbourhood

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He confirmed what other people in the neighbourhood have repeatedly told me.
Living in such a neighbourhood may contribute to problematic relationships, and receiving scant support from children reduces an older person's opportunities to live elsewhere.
Not everyone welcomed the presence of the anarchists, pagans, and crusties in the neighbourhood.
It is important to note that the assumption of homogeneous lexical structure across neighbourhoods differing in density has not been explicitly tested in adults.
Built in 1985, the neighbourhood is relatively invisible to the average passer-by.
For example, this can be done if the support of the transverse measure has a neighbourhood to which the foliation extends in a non-singular way.
In their definition, a smooth map is tame if there is a triangulation of the singular set that extends to a neighbourhood.
We introduce sections transversal to the graphics in the neighbourhood of the singular points.
The efficiency of global search methods enables us to keep only small solution fragments, which leads to a larger neighbourhood leaving more room for improvement.
Virtually all lived in, or close to, working class neighbourhoods and continued to socialize with friends and relatives from the humbler ranks of the community.
However, future studies offer the potential to compare the effects of, for example, civic duty, neighbourhood solidarity and close election messages.
Eight of the 12 operational projects (67 per cent) are based in a particular part of a town or city, targeted at deprived neighbourhoods.
The jobbers toured the neighbourhoods and tried to gather the needed extra hands.
At the local level, we suggest that 'neighbourhood-effect-like' processes operate at two spatial scales at least.
This lends additional support to the observation that word frequency (high or low) may be a more advantageous factor in change than neighbourhood density.
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Collocations withneighbourhood

neighbourhood

These are words often used in combination with neighbourhood.

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dense neighbourhood
By these results, dense neighbourhood structure may be eschewed in developmental productive change.
entire neighbourhood
The entireneighbourhood turned out.
immediate neighbourhood
The affinity of a node agent is defined by its immediateneighbourhood.
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