41.  As new houses _ and new workplaces _ are built farther and farther from the centers of large cities, the automobile commute has become increasingly difficult.

42.  At midday, we had been in the lushest of the world's large cities.

43.  Gruff, blunt and shrewd, this big bear of a man is very appealing as he lumbers through the business of running a large city.

44.  Giuliani repeatedly cites statistics showing that New York's police are less trigger-happy than those of other large cities, and that they are getting less and less so.

45.  He lives in a suburb of a large city and has quite a few friends and relatives who live in the same area.

46.  Hospitals and treatment centers in other large cities, especially in the West, are seeing record numbers of heroin cases.

47.  However, between 1991 and 1998, the number of new housing permits more than doubled in large cities, growing at a faster rate than in the suburbs.

48.  However, LAPD pay continues to lag in comparison with other large cities in California _ which are the agencies competing to hire local officers.

49.  His only stipulation was that the land be near an international airport and large city _ Paris or Tokyo would have been acceptable.

50.  I also saw Taishan and Guangzhou, two large cities in Guangdong Province far from the political and cultural power centers of Beijing and Shanghai.