The phrase "a provincial setting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a location or environment that is characteristic of a province, often implying a rural or less urbanized area.
Example: "The novel is set in a provincial setting, highlighting the simplicity and charm of small-town life."
Alternatives: "a rural backdrop" or "a regional environment".
At one point many of the characters in "Little Children" attend a meeting of the Bellington Ladies Belletristic Societyy, a book group that is discussing "Madame Bovary," possibly the first and in many ways still the greatest of the suburban novels, the one that established the potent combination of romantic yearning and a provincial setting.
Yunus, in Anatolia, however, was the first known poet to have caught something of Rūmī's fervour and translated it into a provincial setting, creating "a Turkish vernacular poetry that was to be the model for all subsequent literary productions of popular religion".
Although the communality estimates are not available to us for the Swedish elderly who were located in a provincial setting, we can say that elderly men in Sweden and Taiwan have comparable factor loadings for the various MetS components [ 29] Rural Taiwanese women, but not Urban Taiwanese women, had a Metabolic factor and a BP factor like provincial Swedish women.
Reggaetón plays out in a more provincial setting in hundreds of clubs that dot the countryside.
"Joe is an intelligent guy - he's an excellent coach, plus we have a very good provincial set-up, a lot of strength in depth and genuine competition for places," Ireland captain Paul O'Connell said.
But the story of Burton Kaplan's life, as it emerged, was at once remarkably international, spanning several continents, and remarkably provincial, set in a New York so small and narrow as to be almost unrecognizable.
This change makes the provincial set-up look more like that in the central party and government, where the minister of public security, Meng Jianzhu, is not on the 24-member Politburo, let alone the standing committee.One reason to think the power of the police is on the wane is the recent decline in the fortunes of the central political-legal chief, Zhou Yongkang.
A port city in Southeast Asia, once considered a provincial backwater, looks set to be one of the hot holiday locations for next year after being named TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Destination on the Rise for 2015.
The Tunisian revolution was, famously, initiated by the suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi, a young man in a provincial town who set himself alight in front of the town hall in protest at petty corruption and his inability to make a living.
As the study was conducted in an ordinary provincial hospital setting, not in a highly specialised shoulder centre, the external validity is relatively good.
That attack, the fourth since December by the American military, killed a provincial deputy governor and set off tribal unrest.
