outlying town

collocation in English

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outlying
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈaʊtˌlaɪ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈaʊtˌlaɪ.ɪŋ/
far away from main towns and cities, or far from the centre of ...
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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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(Definition ofoutlyingandtownfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But suppose that a major employer closes down in anoutlyingtown.
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The more recentoutlyingtownis home to many large residences.
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There is a multitude of manufacturing besides the agriculture of theoutlyingtownareas.
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There is hardly a building which is not destroyed or damaged and many outlying towns and villages are similarly devastated.
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Students are often bussed in from these outlying towns.
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It covers a number of other outlying towns and villages, which had previously been covered by separate municipal borough, urban and rural district councils.
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In 1958, the municipal population reached 6,318,497, of which 31.5% resided in the walled city, 29% in the immediate suburbs and the remainder in outlying towns and rural areas.
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The area of the city continued to expand through the 1920s and 1930s through merger with outlying towns and villages.
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At that time, the city's total area increased fourfold through absorbing several outlying towns and villages and the population increased to 1.56 million people.
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In more developed parts of the country, publishers delivered papers by truck to local carriers in outlying towns.
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Major outlying towns quickly capitulated.
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