21.   Spreading over a broad plain is an extravagance of well preserved stone remains of a prosperous provincial city.

22.   Supermarket chains have sprung up, advertisements flash from billboards and cafes line streets in Moscow, if not in many provincial cities.

23.   The inauguration of a flight connecting a distant Los Angeles suburb with Hermosillo, a provincial city in Mexico, would not seem cause for toasts and speeches.

24.   The same day, armed rebels overran Bukavu, a major provincial city in eastern Congo.

25.   The venue was switched from the capital of Guatemala City to Mazatenango, a provincial city three hours away.

26.   They have now begun to spread beyond the outskirts of Moscow to a few provincial cities like Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Yaroslavl and Kazan.

27.   U.N. officials reported clashes at Chaman, a border crossing in the high desert near this provincial city in southwestern Pakistan.

28.   UNITA has already shown that it can close the airports of provincial cities by shelling as and when it chooses.

29.   USF is an insular little school within a provincial little city.

30.   Whether such second-tier provincial cities can adapt to and accept the practices and values of the international art world is an altogether different question.