31.  Subways and trains move millions of commuters in and out of sprawling cities like Tokyo with precision.

32.  The blasts rocked the northern part of this sprawling city, shattering windows and causing panicked residents to flee the streets.

33.  The market area is easily accessible to tourists, who are afraid to go into other parts of the sprawling city because of robbery and armed attacks.

34.  The sprawling city, smoggy on the best of days from car exhaust and factory fumes, has largely been spared the wildfire haze because of prevailing winds.

35.  He also played down fears that a threatened taxi strike would affect fans getting around the sprawling city.

36.  In the sprawling tented city that has sprung up at Benako, near the northern Tanzanian town of Ngara, people are desperate, but not yet dying.

37.  In the densely populated ethnically mixed areas of the sprawling city, rumours of fresh fighting spread like wildfire but at midday, all appeared to be unfounded.

38.  Doctors and health experts privately say the disease had turned into an epidemic in New Delhi because of the failure of municipal authorities to keep the sprawling city clean.

39.  Doctors and health experts privately say the disease has turned into an epidemic in New Delhi because of the failure of municipal authorities to keep the sprawling city clean.

40.  Doctors and health experts privately blame the spread of the disease on the failure of municipal authorities to keep the sprawling city clean.