The phrase "a fringe area" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a region or topic that is marginal or not central to the main subject or focus.
Example: "The research team is exploring a fringe area of study that has been largely overlooked by mainstream scientists."
Alternatives: "marginal zone" or "peripheral region".
Live in a fringe area, and the picture may pop in and out.
The price difference "will hook people to what is still a fringe area," Mr. Heiberger said.
The calculation for developers pushing into a fringe area, with few properties to help guide pricing and gauge risk, is not exact.
It's the airy, informal restaurant that Mr. Mouzawak opened in a fringe area of Beirut last November, where home cooks from villages around the country prepare regional specialties.
Each pride has a well-defined territory consisting of a core area that is strictly defended against intruding lions and a fringe area where some overlap is tolerated.
"They used to at one time go in a fringe area early in the morning where some people out of curiosity on the boardwalk went to watch.
She opened a tiny fashion boutique, one of the first in SoHo, then a desolate fringe area of downtown Manhattan.
We conducted a survey of 513 private landowners in a peri-urban fringe area in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, USA.
"I think that as people who work in culture, albeit a very small fringe area of culture, we have to be aware of the fact that we contribute hugely to this discourse," she says.
Note that not all bins are populated between the minimum and maximum values of for a given in the fringe area.
Besides enlarging the forest, which straddles the New York-New Jersey border -- with 17,000 acres in Orange County and 2,000 more in Passaic County -- the deal to be announced today will marginalize development to a few fringe areas, blocking plans that once called for 13,000 homes, 8 million square feet of commercial buildings, golf courses and other projects in what is now forest.
