1.   Olbia, a busy coastal town, serves the area with an airport.

2.   The coastal towns are expanding in their hinterlands rather than along the waterfront, and disused industrial areas are favoured for development.

3.   The Crown had long had an unquestioned right to commandeer ships from coastal towns.

4.   The heat in this coastal town is tempered by cool sea breezes.

5.   Small coastal towns dot the landscape.

6.   Another way to involve everyone at the table is to serve cracked crab and peel-and-eat shrimp, popular at coastal towns all over the world.

7.   As a young adult, he lived in or frequented the nearby coastal towns of Pacific Grove, Carmel and Monterey.

8.   After a concert, he found himself sitting in his hotel room in Adelaide, a coastal town in southwestern Australia, reading e-mail on his laptop computer.

9.   But he lived far from the capital, and it took several months for the film to make its way to his coastal town.

10.   But the small coastal towns and cities that have borne the brunt of the immigration lack the facilities and personnel to deal with large groups of foreigners.