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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a metro area" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a metropolitan area, which typically includes a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories.
Example: "The job market in a metro area tends to be more competitive due to the higher population density."
Alternatives: "a metropolitan region" or "an urban area".
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Seattle, on the other hand, has a metro area more than four times larger than Quebec's.
Today, Boise is the urban center of a metro area with a half-million residents.
A few years from now we'll look back at the concept of "one forecast" for a metro area and laugh.
I live in a metro area of about 3 million people, and my friend Matt is the only person I know who hunts.
We apply a log-log model to assess the relationship between a cluster's size and its rank in a metro area.
The German record label Force Inc. has an idea: a Metro Area track appears on the label's new compilation, "Digital Disco".
That means, in short, a metro area with the features that young, skilled workers like, and where they think they can afford to live.
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For all the pride in "Jersey football," Don Bosco Prep is really something of a metro-area all-star team.
Bergen Knights Car Show: Tenafly, N.J., Saturday Just a few miles from New York City, this New Jersey show promises to be a metro-area collection of everything from exotic Italian trailer queens and to daily-driver American muscle cars.
Tel Aviv, which means "spring hill" in Hebrew, grew out of the ancient trading post of Jaffa and now boasts a metro-area population over 3 million.
Finally, we factored in Metropolitan Gross Domestic Product the dollar amount of goods and services produced within a metro area provided for 2008, the most recent available, by Moody's.
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