1.  Anyway, I was visiting buddies in the big city, one of whom was the fellow who was having the affair.

2.  Culture comes mostly from a diversity of thought and ideas, which is one of the reasons it often thrives in big cities.

3.  Currently, theaters in big cities tend to get the first prints available of popular movies and cinemas in smaller towns must wait days or even weeks.

4.  Denver is a big city but a small town.

5.  Despite these big city prices, the weekly's editor has little love for her big city colleagues.

6.  Despite the nation's declining crime rate, there are still problems in big city police departments, like corruption and brutality.

7.  Despite that, most trees stayed untouched through the Depression, when slow-going cars and bumpy rural roads kept development clustered around big cities.

8.  Didn't parents think to say something as Junior or Sis headed off to the big city with their money tied up in a red bandana?

9.  Detroit, the nation's poorest big city, remains heavily reliant on auto factories.

10.  Director Harold Becker is at his best when he's detailing a big city's political machine; he's at his worst when he hands Pacino a sermonette.