1.   But the following month saw a renewed wave of strikes paralyse St Petersburg, Moscow and many provincial cities.

2.   Coventry was a provincial capital, one of the half-dozen largest provincial cities and the fourth richest.

3.   From that time to this Kiev has evolved, like Naples or Boston, into both a great and a provincial city.

4.   In Britain, the old tradition of private patronage in the great provincial cities is reviving - but not fast enough.

5.   In the first place, since little research had taken place outside London, we chose to investigate a provincial city.

6.   There have been protests in the capital and in provincial cities.

7.   Quickly repressed the rebellion in the provincial city and restored order.

8.   The leading provincial cities were tiny in comparison with the capital.

9.   Already, protests of various sorts have broken out, mostly in provincial cities.