Sentence examples for provinces i from inspiring English sources

He was a simple youth from the provinces, I think he was a barber.

In Salerno, the least disorderly of Campania's provinces, I joined a squad of W.W.F.

In one of the southern provinces, I got to know an impishly boyish ex-poacher named Sergio.

When I first arrived in London from what city people call the provinces, I fled back to the countryside at every opportunity.

But in one of the provinces I work in we failed to change legislation, there was a strong opposition by the religious political parties.

Recalling her days at NME, Burchill once wrote: "At the time, working for NME was all enormously impressive – as a 17-year-old virgin from the provinces I had a good excuse to be impressed by this rubbish.

As leader of the province, I should have been told about this.

On a recent trip to Bossangoa province, I was shocked to discover that village after village had been deserted.

BEIJING — In the spring of 1997 in a small hotel in a small town in the middle of Sichuan Province I met Mr. Zhao.

Local officials said that there were about a thousand Afghan Army soldiers in the province — I didn't see any — and about three thousand police, of whom I saw a handful.

In South Kivu Province, I heard from scores of artisanal miners and small-scale purchasers, who used to make a few dollars a day digging ore out of mountainsides with hand tools.