1.   Born in a small mining village near Glenrothes, he has climbed the ladder by learning his craft.

2.   Police are carrying out house-to-house searches in villages near the scene of the murder.

3.   Screenview are a small company operating from a converted barn in a village near Norwich.

4.   She explained to us that she had spent her childhood in a village near Irkutsk.

5.   The good doctor Guruji treats madness with herbal medicine in a village near Delhi.

6.   They settled in Ronco, a picturesque village near the Italian frontier.

7.   This is the parish church for three villages near here.

8.   Army tanks attacked a village near the capital on Sunday.

9.   He lives quietly in the country in a village near Lahti.