1.   Foremost among provincial towns were a handful of regional capitals with populations upwards of five or six thousand.

2.   His provincial town of Flaxborough is a portrait of what might be any somewhat cut-off provincial town anywhere in Britain.

3.   In the provincial towns of San Miguel and Santa Ana, the Markets were also occupied.

4.   It was like being exiled from Paris to a mall provincial town.

5.   Many provincial towns were transformed by the coming of the railway.

6.   She lives with her parents in a comfortable house overlooking fields and trees on the edge of a provincial Midlands town.

7.   There is growing evidence that white supremacist groups are renewing hate campaigns against Aborigines in some provincial towns.

8.   Similar scenes were reported in provincial towns in the vicinity of military camps.