31.   The capital has not so far experienced the violent outbursts that have spread through provincial towns and cities.

32.   The novel is about a prospective marriage in a provincial town.

33.   This provincial Spanish town, snug at the base of a mountaintop medieval castle, likes to think of itself as the Riyadh of olive oil.

34.   Without piped water, Los Angeles might still be a provincial coastal town, and Las Vegas might be a gas station in the desert.

35.   Police and soldiers patrolled several provincial towns Tuesday after mobs went on a rampage, throwing stones at dozens of shops and houses.

36.   Polling stations ran out of ballots in some provincial towns and cities.

37.   People in Ulan Bator and impoverished provincial towns have been able to get meat from relatives in the countryside, keeping them from going hungry in hard times.

38.   Polling stations ran out of ballots in some provincial towns and cities, the agency said.

39.   Rebel forces in Sudan abducted a government official in charge of electricity supply to a provincial town, an exiled opposition group said Sunday.

40.   A half-hour gunbattle between Indonesian police and soldiers in a busy provincial town in Aceh province left three people dead, a military official said Monday.