11.   There were reports of demonstrations and lawlessness in some provincial towns.

12.   Official announcements reported the surrender of senior officials of the former ruling Ethiopian Democratic Unity Party and army officers in Addis Ababa and in provincial towns.

13.   As in most provincial towns of the time, the wealthiest families lived in the central area and the poorest people lived in the thickly-populated outskirts.

14.   During the later years of the seventeenth century and the opening decades of the eighteenth a few provincial towns began to grow rapidly.

15.   Beef farmers and processors have taken to the streets of European capitals and provincial towns to vent their frustration over this threat to their livelihood.

16.   According to some guidebooks, Toronto was once a provincial town where curtains were drawn in department store windows on Sunday because window shopping was considered sinful.

17.   All this inventiveness is hidden in a shabby shop in a provincial town an hour from Tokyo.

18.   Dundalk is a bustling provincial town with storefronts in lively colors and corner pubs that ring with hearty sounds of blarney.

19.   Forced to flee Paris, the Zamins hire Fortin to carry their belongings to a provincial town, where they are promptly denounced as Jews by their new neighbors.

20.   In provincial towns to the south of Kabul, women are never even seen in public.