urban area

collocation in English

meaningsofurbanandarea

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urban
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈɜː.bən/
us
/ˈɝː.bən/
of or in a city ...
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area
noun
uk
/ˈeə.ri.ə/
us
/ˈer.i.ə/
a particular part of a place, piece of land, ...
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(Definition ofurbanandareafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofurban area

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Despite their political oppositions, they succeed in organizing 'communautes urbaines' to handle the development of the wholeurbanarea.
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For women, the relationship between living in anurbanareaand having paid work was positive but statistically insignificant.
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Nourbanareais immune from these changes and no one who is concerned with the future prospects of cities can ignore their effects.
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These interviews were conducted at home with 30 adult asthmatic patients recruited from one practice of 10 000 patients in a mixed, predominantlyurbanarea.
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Climatic warming due to thermal-radiation from anurbanareaas possible cause for the local extinction of a land snail.
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The achievement of actually appropriating poor law hospitals and institutions in such a largeurbanareashould likewise not be underestimated.
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Measuring neighborhood context for young children in anurbanarea.
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Theurbanareatherefore offers a large expanse of soil exposed to faecal deposits.
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From this, 874,000 were in theurbanareaand 162,000 in the rural areas.
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Properties were distributed throughout theurbanareaand were aged between 5 and 165 years.
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Moreover, in the robustness checks below, we include a comprehensive set of control variables including indicators for region, occupation, and living in anurbanarea.
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The blocks all shared similar portions ofurbanarea(1/3) and agricultural landscape and woodland (2/3) in a pattern typical for the area.
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The sample consisted of 9-12-year-old children, with 26 children from theurbanarea, and 29 from the rural area.
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Each project addressed the problems as outlined above and was located in a peripheralurbanarea.
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A discontinuous growth pattern can be instrumental to the town planning of a definedurbanarea.
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This is an inner-cityurbanareawhere practice populations overlap, so that patients have a choice of practices.
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The majority of locally-owned rural plants, however, are subsidiaries of companies based in theurbanareaof the region.
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We ignore wills that appear to convey farm property only, even if the testator at death was living in anurbanarea.
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This is of particular significance given the study's location in a disadvantagedurbanareawhere the uptake of conventional hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation is poor.
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Similarly, several rural factories with headquarters in theurbanareahave been closed.
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