These and most other cities and large towns are now connected with asphalt-paved roads, while smaller towns are often connected by dirt roads, which may require a four-wheel-drive vehicle.

In the 19th century, Chinese in San Francisco operated sophisticated and sometimes luxurious restaurants patronized mainly by Chinese, while restaurants in smaller towns served what their customers requested, ranging from pork chop sandwiches and apple pie to beans and eggs.

There are several big coach companies, which control the market for intercity travel, and hundreds of small ones ( one bus = one company ), which operate between the smaller towns.

It provides a service between smaller communities along the line, and also connections with long-distance services at interchange stations located at junctions or at larger towns along the line.

Hadrian's temple had actually been located there because it was the junction of the main north-south road with one of the two main east-west roads and directly adjacent to the forum ( which is now the location of the ( smaller ) Muristan ); the forum itself had been placed, as is traditional in Roman towns, at the junction of the main north-south road with the ( other ) main east-west road ( which is now El-Bazar / David Street ).

Like any underdeveloped nation, the Dominican Republic suffers from lack of good paved roads to connect smaller towns and less populated areas, major town roads however are in good condition.

In some smaller towns and in the south of France, the two hour lunch may still be customary.

In smaller cities and towns, some working people leave their workplaces to return home for lunch, generating four rush hours during the day.

Roman ruins like those of Leptis Magna, extant in present-day Libya, attest to the vitality of the region, where populous cities and even smaller towns enjoyed the amenities of urban life-the forum, markets, public entertainments, and baths-found in every corner of the Roman Empire.

Besides Hultsfred, in the mid north of the municipality, there are the towns of Virserum in the south-west and other ever smaller settlements such as Lönneberga, Silverdalen and Målilla.

In more remote areas, and between smaller towns, most services are provided with minibuses or minivans ( angkut ).

Map of Japan's major cities, main towns and selected smaller centers

The Lower Mainland's communities includes large cities in Metro Vancouver, and smaller cities, towns and villages along both banks of the Fraser River.

But for much of the 4th century, Roman society had reached a new, stable form that differed from the earlier classical period in a number of significant ways-a widening gulf between the rich and poor as well as a decline in the vitality of the smaller towns.

It flows through the city Saint Petersburg, three smaller towns of Shlisselburg, Kirovsk and Otradnoye, and dozens of settlements.

The smaller, rural communities as well as the towns and villages throughout the province, retain a slower-paced, old-world flavour.

By 1963 telephone wire had been laid from Beijing to the capitals of all provinces, autonomous regions, and large cities, while in turn, provincial capitals and autonomous regions were connected to the administrative seats of the counties, smaller municipalities and larger market towns.

Papua New Guinea's cities, main towns, selected smaller centres, rivers and high peaks

The city lies at the centre of a densely populated area, surrounded by a ring of smaller towns.

In the Netherlands a municipality ( gemeente ) may consist of a single city or town or it may consist of a number of smaller towns and villages.

* Trams can trackshare with mainline railways, servicing smaller towns without requiring special track as in Stadtbahn Karlsruhe and at greater speed than buses.

Toruń and Bydgoszcz together make up a bipolar metroplex which, including those cities ' counties and a number of smaller towns, may have a population of as much as 800, 000.

Still, by 1925, only a third of Germans lived in large cities ; the other two-thirds of the population lived in the smaller towns or in rural areas.

On the truck bed there was nothing smaller than a piece of rusty machinery ; ;

In general, such apartments afford more protection than smaller buildings because their walls are thick and there is more space.

On the contrary, there are fewer colds and smaller doctor bills.

In each of these there was to be a strong military post, and a trading depot to supply the smaller trading houses.

In the adjoining, smaller Bay of Puerto Marqués there is Pichilingue, Las Brisas, and Playa Roqueta.

But there are smaller snippets of tradition preserved in the Historia Brittonum: in Chapter 31, we are told that Vortigern ruled in fear of Ambrosius ; later, in Chapter 66, various events are dated from a Battle of Guoloph ( often identified with Wallop, ESE of Amesbury near Salisbury ), which is said to have been between Ambrosius and Vitolinus ; lastly, in Chapter 48, it is said that Pascent, the son of Vortigern, was granted rule over the regions of Buellt and Gwrtheyrnion by Ambrosius.

Essentially there were two grades of suit, a smaller kind known as dike ( δίκη ) or private suit, and a larger kind known as graphe or public suit.

Conversely, the Belgian Blue's meat tenderness has been argued to be just as tender because there are a large number of smaller muscle fibers.

Initially, there were 25 franchises, but the number of different operating companies is smaller as some firms, including First Group, National Express Group and Stagecoach Group, run more than one franchise.

Today's strip artists, with the help of the NCS, enthusiastically promote the medium, which is considered to be in decline due to fewer markets ( today few strips are published in newspapers outside the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, mainly because of the smaller interest there, with translated versions of popular strips-particularly in Spanish-are primarily read over the internet ) and ever-shrinking newspaper space.

Typically, eukaryotic cells ( cells with nuclei ) have large linear chromosomes and prokaryotic cells ( cells without defined nuclei ) have smaller circular chromosomes, although there are many exceptions to this rule.

If κ is an infinite cardinal number, then cf ( κ ) is the least cardinal such that there is an unbounded function from it to κ ; and cf ( κ ) = the cardinality of the smallest collection of sets of strictly smaller cardinals such that their sum is κ ; more precisely

More exciting for planetary astronomers was that the best orbital solutions suggested that the comet would pass within of the center of Jupiter, a distance smaller than the planet's radius, meaning that there was an extremely high probability that SL9 would collide with Jupiter in July 1994.

Canadian Cheddar cheese is produced mostly by a number of large companies in Ontario, though other provinces produce some and there are some smaller artisanal producers.

The whole chamber is cross or trefoil-shaped and there are no smaller individual compartments.

After 1880, profits from printing became smaller, there was over capacity and the firms started to form combines.

Despite success in reuniting large sections of the wider Christadelphian community and periodic efforts at reuniting smaller offshoots, there are still a number of groups who remain separate from other bodies of Christadelphians.

The dissemination of imperial law to the provinces was facilitated under Diocletian's reign, because Diocletian's reform of the Empire's provincial structure meant that there were now a greater number of governors ( praesides ) ruling over smaller regions and smaller populations.

A smaller emphasis on doctrinal activity favoured the development here and there of the ascetic and contemplative life and there sprang up, especially in Germany and Italy, the mystical movement with which the names of Meister Eckhart, Heinrich Suso, Johannes Tauler, and St. Catherine of Siena are associated.

On the large island, there exists a " wall of deserts " that separates the island into a large main area and separate smaller strips of land.

For polynomials of degree four and smaller there are explicit formulae for the roots ( the formulae are elementary functions ).