1.   Earthen hills separate Milpa Alta from the rest of the capital, keeping the great metropolis out of sight and out of mind.

2.   He was also instructed to imbue that force with an esprit de corps and professionalism befitting a city that considers itself to be a great metropolis.

3.   How about, she was asked, just picking it up, as the citizens of other great metropolises do?

4.   In the course of human events, a great metropolis prospered because anyone who tried to leave got stuck in the mud.

5.   Mayor Rudolph Giuliani took to the airwaves the other day to alert the public to a threat to his great metropolis.

6.   Over the next hundred years, the Wittelsbach dynasty built the city into a great metropolis.

7.   Residents of New York and other great metropolises who assume that the glories of their cities will last forever might take a cautionary lesson from this remote provincial outpost.

8.   Today those who love this great metropolis may well hope that it remains worthy of this great institution.

9.   Will the great metropolises of our time, like conquered Carthage, be plowed with salt?