• Many visitors, surfers included, opt to pitch a tent on the campgrounds located on the edge of town.

    BBC: Uruguay��s laid-back surfing devil

  • Luka, the town butcher, owned the pasture and the smokehouse on the edge of town.

    NEWYORKER: The Tiger��s Wife

  • The day we arrived in Wajid, a man was executed on the edge of town.

    NPR: Somalia Struggles to Cope with Drought

  • That includes the dingy two-story building on the edge of town that houses headquarters, factory and warehouse under one roof.

    FORBES: Indestructible

  • That includes the dingy two- story building on the edge of town that has headquarters, factory and warehouse all under one roof.

    FORBES: Indestructible

  • Many areas have already gone and many more will be torn down, their residents moved to blocks on the edge of town.

    ECONOMIST: Get ready for an enormous show of triumphalism

  • But they were mainly in sprawling operations on the edge of town.

    ECONOMIST: Why some cities thrive while others slump

  • They went to an old railway bridge on the edge of town.

    NEWYORKER: Silver or Lead

  • On the edge of town, on what used to be a state-owned pig farm, the vision of Hefei's government is being put into practice.

    NPR: China Seeks Cheaper Labor Within Its Borders

  • They stayed at a lodge on the edge of town, down by the river, by the former train station where the outbuilding had burned.

    NEWYORKER: Or Else

  • They particularly like having more space, a new house on the edge of town, gardens for their children to play in, and somewhere convenient to park their cars.

    ECONOMIST: Suburbs

  • Interfet has yet to establish a firm presence in the area, and the locals say that militiamen are still hiding in the coffee plantations on the edge of town.

    CNN: 'This Was Systematic'

  • That is why all day, and sometimes all night, there is the crump of artillery fire from the Syrian army's positions directed into the concrete jungles on the edge of town.

    BBC: Damascus: The changing face of Syria's capital

  • One day last February, a judge in Lago Agrio, presiding over a spare, concrete courtroom in a shopping mall on the edge of town, issued an opinion that reverberated far beyond the Amazon.

    NEWYORKER: Reversal of Fortune

  • On the edge of town, a new cultural centre is due to open in early 2009 showing the history of aborigines, pioneers and writers such as Henry Lawson who came, saw and wrote about the region.

    ECONOMIST: A land of drought

  • It was, and remains, on Coyote Hill Road, in Palo Alto, nestled in the foothills on the edge of town, in a long, low concrete building, with enormous terraces looking out over the jewels of Silicon Valley.

    NEWYORKER: Creation Myth

  • Swan said Springsteen's 1975 breakthrough album, as well as subsequent albums "Darkness on the Edge of Town, " "The River, " "Born in the U.S.A" and "Nebraska, " talked about the shifting foundations of the U.S. economy before the subject became topical.

    NPR: The Boss Plays A Note Of Caution On Economic Sway

  • On the high street in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, a tidy market town, Bagehot momentarily thought he had found the archetypal swing voter: a youngish mother who lives on the edge of town and whose husband works for Rolls-Royce just the sort of characteristics that political strategists get excited about.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • The Orangemen march out from the centre of Portadown to Drumcree church in the gently rolling farmland on the edge of the town.

    BBC: Time for change?

  • He managed to evade them for much of the afternoon until he was found hiding in a school on the edge of the town.

    BBC: Mass shootings and gun control

  • Next stop is the Linge Ferry Quay, 15km southwest, on the edge of the town of Storfjord.

    BBC: Driving Norway��s Golden Route

  • You would never know that the graceful brick smokestack on the north edge of town belonged to what was once the largest rope factory in the world.

    FORBES: A Cautionary Tale From America's Hometown

  • Gleeson Strategic Land's proposed development on the northern edge of the town was turned down following the recommendation of councillors.

    BBC: The land Gleeson want to develop

  • In 2004 protesters prevented Home Depot and Lowe's from moving into vacant factory space on the western edge of town.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Set on the western edge of the lake, the town of Lucerne is as placid as the waters in which its medieval buildings are reflected.

    BBC: Swiss movement

  • Plans for 800 homes, shops, a supermarket and a primary school on the edge of a Cornish town have been submitted by the Duchy of Cornwall.

    BBC: Duchy of Cornwall submits plan for 800 Newquay homes

  • It's a fusion of word and film that has taken the interior life of a teenage girl, and a small town on the Western edge of the United States, and placed them at the center of the world.

    FORBES: Medialand

  • The incident took place near the village of Rajince on the edge of a buffer zone outside the borders of Kosovo, police in the southern Serbian town of Vranje said.

    CNN: Serb police hurt on Kosovo border

  • Keating was living alone in a ramshackle cottage on the edge of Dedham, a small town in Essex, when the reporter from The Times drove up in her Morris 1100.

    FORBES: The Ultimate In Reality TV? Try Televised Art Forgery. [Book Excerpt #2]

  • She and her family were driving home from a softball tournament Sunday afternoon as the fire rolled toward their home on the southern edge of Graham, a small town in Young County.

    CNN: Wildfire ravages home but spares family roosters

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