Sentence examples for in big conurbations from inspiring English sources

The individualism, the civic pride, the localism of buses was swept away long ago, and the first villains were the Passenger Transport Executives in big conurbations from around 1969 onwards.

At the same time, the environment secretary, David Miliband, has urged councils in big conurbations outside London to follow the lead of London's mayor, Ken Livingstone, by introducing congestion charging or road pricing to help reduce carbon emissions and tempt more people on to public transport.

Some 80% of Muslims live in four big conurbations.

Patchwork devolution to the cities and counties of England has only just begun to spread economic and political power across the country, and mainly to the big conurbations that voted to stay in.

"The local business, from the big conurbations like Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool, has also stopped coming in the same numbers as before".

These congregate in London (where Kingston-on-Thames has the lowest crime rate, according to the Met's "Crime Data Dashboard") and the big conurbations.

The other big conurbations - from Birmingham to Manchester and Glasgow, names for cities that spread far beyond the bounds of political city limits - can be understood in the same way.

Since ethnic minorities cluster around big conurbations (eg, London, Birmingham, the Midlands, Manchester, Liverpool), representing a significant proportion of the total population, it is possible that we may have underestimated the association of salt intake with socioeconomic gradient in some areas with larger ethnic representations.

If housing were more plentiful in the bigger conurbations it would be cheaper, and the residents of declining cities, who often have little housing equity, would find it easier to move to them.

Typically, traffic in large conurbations is regulated by an expensive and complex traffic management centre.

We've got a big conurbation - bigger than some Premier League clubs.