1.   In an era of downsizing and cost-cutting, many businesses are finding ways to operate more cheaply outside major metropolises.

2.   Sightseeing, events, hotels and restaurants in the modern major metropolis of Singapore.

3.   The townspeople keep saying that car bombings are supposed to raise fears in the major metropolises -- not a clean-cut, medium-sized community like Oklahoma City.

4.   You are a thug working for various crime bosses in the seedy underworld of a major metropolis.

5.   Across the West, skies resembled the smog layer in a major metropolis, causing residents to sneeze and snuffle and rub bleary, red eyes.

6.   Eleven of those cities are state capitals, including the major metropolises Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

7.   Emmett Watson, a newspaper columnist who chronicled life in Seattle for more than half a century and lamented its growth into a major metropolis, has died.

8.   This image of a Renaissance Disneyland contrasts with the wishes of city fathers to turn Florence back into a major European metropolis.

9.   As for the big cities, they might keep Corunna in Galicia, and perhaps Barcelona, the only major metropolis currently in socialist hands.