Similarly, Arsenal's title challenge may not be entirely dead yet, but with a goal difference lagging 14 behind Liverpool after the same number of games played, and fully 18 behind Manchester City, a return to the familiar environs of fourth placed should be expected.
Swaths of the semi-rural township and pastoral environs have been bulldozed, flattened, rezoned, redeveloped, and covered with "people farms".
Brittain was bored out of her mind during her girlhood in the beautiful but snobbish and conservative environs of Buxton.
Not to be underestimated is his autobiographic essay, My Dark Places, which is an unprecedentedly horrific first person narration about growing up in LA's seamier – and potently dangerous – environs.
The Amalfi Coast and its environs are spectacularly beautiful and full of historical interest, but also very crowded in the high season, and the topography pushes people even closer together.
Baghdad and its environs, where nearly a quarter of Iraq's 27m-odd people dwell, is too mixed up to be picked apart.
By the time he left New York City for good in 1967, the character of the environs of 125th Street had already changed for ever.
Certainly, the state capital and its environs were festooned with at least as many posters of Mr Monreal's grin and his campaign slogan, "Yes we can", as of his PRI rival's.
Early next year a mandatory pre-commitment trial will start in the small Australian Capital Territory (Canberra and environs), with possible national adoption three years later.
Iran sees its environs as "very dangerous", says Mr Kam: Iraq exploding on one side, Afghan drug runners, who have killed 3,000 Iranian police and troops in recent years, infiltrating the border on the other, and the Americans stomping around in both.
Then there is a far bigger stand-off: over Nagorno-Karabakh and its environs, where a decade ago Armenians broke free from Azerbaijan and expelled local Azeris.
