Sentence examples for the wrong town from inspiring English sources

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If you do, you're in the wrong sport — and you're in the wrong town".

But there was one hitch: The police had the wrong school, in the wrong town.

Had officials acted on his prediction, said Richard M. Allen, a professor of geophysics at the University of California, Berkeley, "you would have evacuated the wrong town and you would have evacuated the wrong town at the wrong time".

Update: the chart showing top schools by A-level results was updated on 22 January due to a school being indicated to the wrong town.

And if you have a yen to open a "museum of anatomy," in which "the principal part of the exhibition is illustrative of the human anatomy," you've picked the wrong town.

But Mark S. Tulis, a town supervisor in the early 1990s and former county legislator, described the plan in a letter last fall to the Town Board as the "wrong project in the wrong town and massively too large".

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You report that the Census Bureau put entire populations of some prisons in the wrong towns (news article, Nov. 28).

A few phone calls and one bus ride later, the band has arrived in an Israeli town, the wrong Israeli town, having successfully journeyed from forgotten to mislaid.

"To be a black African in the wrong part of town at the wrong time," Mr. Thomson concluded, "is to be in a very frightening place.

By the time I realize it, I'm on the wrong side of town.

Woe to the unsuspecting person who buys a property on the wrong side of town.

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