The phrase "area participated" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks clarity in meaning.
Example: "The area participated in the community event was larger than expected."
Alternatives: "region involved" or "zone engaged".
Some 60 students, recruited from the Rochester, N.Y., area, participated in the first trial; the second involved 205 ninth graders from a high school in suburban Austin, Tex.
Earlier in the meet yesterday, about 150 runners -- high school age and younger -- from the metropolitan area participated in a hastily arranged exhibition.
In this study, 3119 respondents from the Helsinki metropolitan area participated in a Web-based survey that helped define the quality factors meaningful to inhabitants.
A total of 356 girls from six intervention and six control high schools in the St Paul/Minneapolis, MN, metropolitan area participated in the New Moves study in 2007-2009.
Students attending an alternative high school in a low-income, rural area participated in half-hour guided mindfulness meditation sessions, offered flexibly at least twice per week for eight weeks.
High School students from the Triangle area participated in the symposium and some displayed robots that they built for competitions.
Twenty representative centers from different areas participated (see "Participating investigators" section).
Sue Tompkins Former singer with the indie band Life Without Buildings and graduate of Glasgow School of Art, here is another Glasgow artist to follow as two contenders from the area participate in the Turner prize in Gateshead.
Parking Benefit Districts (PBDs) are a parking measure where revenues from on-street parking charges are returned to the area where they are charged, and stakeholders in the area participate in prioritizing how the revenues are to be spent.
When we introduced a CFR system into a pilot area, participating CFR members were worried about their CPR quality, injury compensation, and mental effects such as post-traumatic stress disorder.
For New York City area participating colleges (with a total of more than 10,000 students) the survey showed ASA was a top performer with significantly higher scores than the average in all five categories.
