Consider Yelp, a popular site for finding and reviewing local businesses in many large cities.

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Reputable dealers can be found with minimal searching and are located in many large cities.

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Mr. PEDRO NOGUERA (Urban Sociologist): New York is a lot like many large cities around the country, and even some not so large cities - where increasingly, the schools are very segregated, not only by race but also by class.

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The gleaming towers, swank restaurants, and smart shops remain, but Chicago is experiencing a steep decline quite different from that of many other large cities.

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And he is surely wrong when he argues that Muslims will not assimilate, that sharia law may become widespread or that large parts of many European cities will come to resemble north Africa.

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He produced many large artworks which are located in public spaces in cities around the world.

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For many years San Jose has been one of the safest large cities in the United States.

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But, if present trends continue, many other cities will have to find creative ways to use some very large and suddenly empty buildings.

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Important cities, like Mianyang, are classified as Tier 3, and many analysts carry the classifications further and use Tier 4 to denote cities that are large and important by any standard, but are even less well known.

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Belying their stuffy images, the streets of many market towns are now meaner than those in big cities, which tend to be policed by large forces.

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