Sentence examples for metropolis size from inspiring English sources

If this dangly utopia could be scaled up to metropolis size, it would have one great advantage: the social levelling effect of riding around with your dick drooping over your bicycle seat.

"He figured that in a metropolis the size of Los Angeles, there would always be enough people who shared his interests and taste to make the paper successful," David Shaw, then The Times' media critic, wrote shortly after Thomas retired.

Only slightly closer, to the west, is the nearest metropolis of any size: Tulsa, across the state line in Oklahoma.

The world has gone car-crazy, and the measure of a metropolis is the size of its traffic jams.

For a metropolis twice the size of another, the length of electric cables, number of gas stations and other bits of infrastructure decrease by about 15% per inhabitant.

This happened just days after Laredo, Tex., a city of nearly a quarter-million people, shuttered its last standing bookstore, becoming the first metropolis of that size to be barren of books sold the old-fashioned way.

In the emerging world almost every metropolis is growing in size faster than in population.

Whether the setting is the Little family's roomy Manhattan town house, or Central Park, or a skyscraper whose pinnacle is the lair of an evil falcon, the movie's dreamlike vision of the city evokes a giant-size toy metropolis at once familiar and strange.

The city of Wuxi may be small by Chinese standards with an urban population of around 2 million compared to other PRC metropolises 10 times that size; it's a sort of Newark to nearby Shanghai's New York.

The size of the metropolis has made it tricky for Oliver to gain media attention.

But he faces doubts about the ability of an outsider to lead the clannish department and cope with the diversity and size of this metropolis.