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city

A city is large area where many people live and work, larger than a town. Tokyo and New York are two of the world's largest cities. There's too much crime in the inner city. The city is the government that has power over a city. A city usually builds roads and parks, and keeps them in good shape. The city has its offices in a building called a city hall. The mayor asked city council to reduce taxes. The city is the people who live in the city. The city is afraid of the change.

city

a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts Ancient Troy was a great city an incorporated administrative district established by state charter the city raised the tax rate people living in a large densely populated municipality the city voted for Republicans in 1994

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Simple sentences

We took a turn around the city in our car.
What's the capital city of Finland?
New York is a big city.
One out of three persons in this city has his own car.
Kobe is the city which I was born in.
The city was blanketed with snow.
Tokyo has a larger population than any other city in Japan.
Nara is a very old city.
Barcelona is the capital city of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain.
The capital of Mexico is the largest city in Latin America.
The capital city of the Netherlands is Amsterdam.
The library is in the center of the city.
He knows this city very well.
Paris is the most beautiful city in the world.
This is the city I told you about.
Florence is the most beautiful city in Italy.
Nara is a quiet and beautiful city.
How many schools are there in your city?
Kanazawa is a quiet city.
The church is on the hill overlooking the city.
Do you have a map of the city of Kyoto?
There are many tourists in the city on holidays.
By the year 2020, the population of our city will have doubled.
A band led the parade through the city.
We enjoyed seeing the city, but we got a little tired.
The population of your city is about five times as large as that of my town.
This city will suffer from an acute water shortage unless it rains soon.

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The Forbidden City in Beijing.
With a population of up to a million, the city was probably the largest in the world.
London's old, patched-up city walls extended a paltry three miles.
By contrast, it took the founder of the Ming dynasty 21 years to build a wall more than 20 miles long around his capital city, Nanjing.
The ravages of the Black Death, the bubonic plague that had devastated Europe in the early 1 4th century, had reduced the city's population to around 40,000, less than a 20th the size of Nanjing's.
Dick Whittington had to watch where he put his feet, because the streets of his city were paved with something very different from gold.
Hundreds of states and city-states competing against each other.
The City of London Corporation can trace its origins back to the 12th century.
That means that the lord mayor, the sheriffs, the city council, the freemen, the Iiverymen and the aldermen are all more than 800 years old, making this the world's oldest autonomous commercial institution.
The City was never in awe of the Crown, and the wealthier the City became, the more leverage it had.
The Forbidden City in Beijing is just one vast monument to the unity of Imperial power.
Except maybe those nice English clocksl I'm standing here in the heart of the Forbidden City entirely surrounded by clocks.
Nice to meet you. And my name is Elder Church, originally from the great city of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
You'll remain incognito in the native city.
I fell in love with the white city of Algiers that embraces the Mediterranean shore.
Three bachelors letting loose in the city of love.
Because I went by the city center - and Cal had his arm around him.
Wait, wait, wait. - You went by the city center?
I mean, you get your big, beautiful building in the city and I get to go tell a farmer who's dying that I lied and I can't help him test his water 'cause some corporate bitch is blackmailing me into dropping the whole thing.
Welcome to our city.
He used to live in the City Hotel.
I don't: Just yesterday I met a gentleman at the City Hotel, and already today.
One evening, Paris went to sleep and the following morning the night watchman in the Eiffel Tower wonders why not a thing is stirring in the city and since no one comes.
Among the vacationists was a Woman of the City.
The city bridges are raised again.
A faraway city in the North, on New Year's Eve.
It's a long way from the city to the monastery.
We'll be the first in the city to lead a multi-hospital domino transplant.
Okay, well, um, I was born in Prescott, but I knew a small town wasn't for me, so I moved to the big city.
Richard Kind is a 59-year-old actor, best known for his role in Spin City.
We had just taken a selfie overlooking the city and. we looked at each other, and I just thought.
I mean, the best city in the world ever.
You went by the city center?
Westminster at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Isn't it a beautiful city with beautiful women?
What is up with this city?
The Atlantic City of yesterday?

News and current affairs

Any pathological group of extremists could destroy New Delhi, Tokyo, Paris, or any city they chose.
In fact, some city dwellers don't even bother with acquiring land or gaining distant help.
Such campaigns go hand-in-hand with expanded farming, because sellers of these foods prefer nearby growers - even if these growers increasingly live in the city.
We also bear the responsibilities involved in laying off Chernobyl's workers and depriving the adjacent city of Slavutych (population 28,000), of its main source of income.
As the uprising against the Ceausescu regime broke out in December 1989 in Timisoara, Stanculescu (together with General Chitac) was dispatched to the city and ordered to suppress all demonstrations by any available means.
Even after Tamerlan had died, and Dzhokhar, already wounded, was the only known fugitive, the Boston authorities decided to close down the entire city.
Public transport was halted, trains to and from the city were stopped, shops and business closed, and citizens were told to stay home.
It shows how vulnerable a modern city can be when its leaders lose their nerve.
A ranking prepared for the City Corporation in London shows New York and London still neck and neck at the top of the league.
Notwithstanding this, most Canadians and Mexicans believe that cooperation in North America will proceed regardless of who is in office in Ottawa, Washington, or Mexico City.
MEXICO CITY - For the next American president, fixing the international mess inherited from the Bush administration will be no simple task.
First, illness is more likely to be reported in a city hospital than at a specialist institute.
With so much at stake, it makes sense to place sentinels near every swamp, city, public market, and farmyard on earth.
The first big city to boom was London, starting around 1996.
In fact, my formal residence is in New York City, but I am about to spend most of the next five months in Russia, training to be a cosmonaut in Star City, just outside Moscow.
LONDON - Last month, while in New York City, I happened to be staying in the same hotel as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
The violence began in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri during a protest by Muslims against the cartoons, with the Christian Association of Nigeria reporting at least 50 Christians killed.
His body was found in a hotel toilet in the city of Kaduna with the remains of a parcel bomb after an explosion that no one heard.
Because they know both the tastes of fellow city dwellers and rural conditions, many urban farmers are succeeding.
For them, Israel's pre-1967 borders, the entire city of Jerusalem, and the West Bank of the Jordan River is land given to the Jewish people by God.

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