The Great Smoky Mountains National Park was created by local citizens who wanted to protect the area.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

We have plenty of band with a long distance and thanks to local area networks like my own baby Ethernet, we have plenty of bandwidth in local area that was inside of buildings. But there is a gap, there is a gap between the LAN, the local area network, and the WAN, the Wide Area Network.

我们有大量长距离网带,多亏了局域网，就像我的宝贝,以太网，我们在本地有大量的带宽,那都在建筑物内部的，但是这儿有空白,在LAN之间有空白地带，即局域网,以及WAN，广域网。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

all local, which are from the upstate area like Saugerties, Woodstock, Rhinebeck and just all Hudson Valley area artists.

他们都是当地的艺术家，来自索格蒂斯、伍德斯托克、莱茵贝克。都是来自哈德逊谷地的艺术家。

纽约的美术馆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It developed and grew as more and more schools took part in local and area contests.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

Local people changed the spelling of the name and the area became known as Dolly Sods.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

A local public relations man suggested a celebration of the area's once plentiful strawberry fields.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

Mike Banner got his start in the Washington area through local recreational soccer.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

In the San Francisco Bay area, for example so far this year have been Asian-American - way over their local population.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

Analysts say the attacks may be part of the military's plans to clear the area of local communities ahead of construction of a hydro-electric power plant.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

Residents and local intelligence officials in the area that borders Afghanistan say that a suspected U.S.unmanned aircraft fired the missiles near the town of Mir Ali.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Political analyst Zadeh says state discrimination against ethnic Baluchis and the poverty of the area, also a center of drug smuggling, give Jundallah more than enough support from the local population.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19