1.   After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel.

2.   He owned a shop in a nearby town.

3.   Scattered villages house people who work at the power station, or in the nearby towns of Bridgwater and Taunton.

4.   Taxis can be hired in the nearby towns of Kalambaka or Kastraki.

5.   Windows were shattered and ceilings cracked in several nearby towns.

6.   Reports are coming into the newsroom of a cholera epidemic in a nearby town.

7.   A traveller who has come from a nearby town, where the Romans have already given out their orders.

8.   Herbert heads for a nearby town where, having gorged himself in a garage, he finds his way to an open space and falls asleep.

9.   Although the area is still largely rural, the roads serve large corporate parks built by IBM and other corporations in North Castle, a nearby town.